Recycling

An amateur computer historian has unearthed a cool piece of technology paraphernalia: NeXT’s Fall 1989 catalog. Kevin Savetz recently scanned the entire 138-page book, and posted the files to Archive.org. NeXT was the company that Steve Jobs founded in 1985 a…

KRIS ABEL A secret Montreal laboratory has developed a breakthrough technology that may help save the planet – and keep your local taxes low at the same time. While you dutifully separate household waste into a rainbow of colorful recycling bins, many citie…

As Game Freak continues to battle criticism from Pokémon fans unhappy that Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield won't support every single Pokémon species, speculation that the Pokédex has been truncated because the studio was "recycling" models from the newer 3D…

Ever since the Union Budget laid out the path for electric vehicular transportation, there has been debate on how this will affect the automobile industry and its associated peripheral markets. However, there has been little debate on the importance of (lithi…

For Ryan McGill, its legacy has been enormous. Earlier this year, the Glaswegian, London-based designer launched Two Degrees Creative, a collaborative platform for climate change solutions. Inspired by Anderson, Recycle(d) is an ongoing project set up by Two…

Why is plastic waste such a problem for Indonesia? In the past 30 years, Indonesia  has become overwhelmed by plastic waste. Sadly, we havent found a solution to deal with this waste across our many islands.  The topography of Indonesia makes it more challen…

Air travel generates millions of tons of waste every year. Some airlines are trying to change that. On a recent 15-hour journey from Newark to Hong Kong, I was faced with a parade of single-use disposables. There was the plastic-wrapped blanket and plastic-ba…

National Geographic offers a good series of more than one hundred YouTube videos designed to provide viewers with concise explanations of the big concepts of a variety of topics in science. The series includes videos about volcanoes, plastics creation and rec…

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Compared to the rest of the world, the waste and recycling stats in the U.S. just cant compete. Although the U.S. is just 4 percent of the worlds total population, the country produces 12 percent of the total solid waste of 2.1 billion tons per year. When res…