Recycling

MANILA - A southern Philippine city has turned discarded plastic bottles into flowers to fill a garden of thousands of colorful tulips, capturing tourists' attention and building awareness about recycling. The tulip garden, which opened on Monday, was built …

It was like waking from a dream when our children began to manage their own lives with little input from us. Gone were the Sundays at the soccer field, the trips to music/dance/gymnastics lessons, the birthday parties and sleepovers. We were in our early-5…

There are still several events you can attend in New York City, including a ballet, a rap show and several talks with professors and scientists. Here are a few of them: Midtown: Glacier: A Climate Change Ballet (and Other Works). The show, which debuted in 2…

Plastic waste pollution, aggravated by inefficient waste collection and limited recycling capabilities, is prevalent across Africa. However, the continent also has a growing, youthful population that values improving the quality of life and readily adopts tec…

How does learning to read change our brain? Does reading take up brain space dedicated to seeing objects such as faces, tools or houses? In a functional brain imaging study, a research team compared literate and illiterate adults in India. Reading recycles a …

Apple this week published environmental reports for the new iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and iPhone 11 Pro Max, revealing that the Taptic Engine in all three devices is made of 100 percent recycled rare earth elements. The Taptic Engine, which powers haptic fee…

If youve ever stood in front of your recycling binunsure if the trash in your hands is recyclableand threw it in anyway, this article is for you. Over on Mother Jones, writer Jackie Flynn Mogensen followed the effects of wishcycling, when a consumer commits …

In a unexpected but not unpleasant twist, the team behind the Football Manager series has announced that the packaging for the upcoming Football Manager 2020 will be “the most environmentally friendly packaging” they’ve been able to create. It’s important fo…

The iconic Green Card from American Express is getting an eco-friendly makeover. Both personal and business versions of the Green Card are being remade primarily from plastic reclaimed from beaches, islands and coastal communities, and will be issued to card…

Scripts + guides on how to set up a virtual machine on Google Compute Engine capable of running and using Salesforce's very large text-generating model CTRL to generate high-quality text based on conditional parameters. The CTRL model is so large (12 GB on d…