Recycling

April 6, 2020 AT 11:00 am Thank you Novolex for the plastic donation so our team at Adafruit as well as teams in NYC can continue manufacturing face shields for the NYC area and beyond. The plastic that is needed for the face shield became nearly impossible to source, Novolex’s…

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Our love of gadgets and technology is leading to a huge electronic waste problem. TCO Development, the folks behind the global sustainability certification, has announced a new initiative to help with our growing e-waste problem.According to the United Nations University's E-waste Monitor effort, around 50 million tonnes of electronic waste…

By: Express News Service | Updated: April 1, 2020 1:07:16 am Bhura Parmar is abourer at plastic recycling unit in Dhoraji, Rajkot.Bhura Parmar, 21 Family members: 3 Profession: Labourer at plastic recycling unit in Dhoraji, Rajkot Earning: Rs 9,000 a month; Headed towards: Kotlindora, Gujarat Why he left: “Although our…

Forget the Lambeth Walk, instead enjoy the Camden Bork Bork!Bork!Bork! Welcome to another in our uplifting series of incidents where someone else's IT misdemeanours are flashed at an unsuspecting world. Behold the bork. Today's example was spotted on the side of a recycling collection lorry pulling out of Queen's Crescent…

Pulsed extraction column (normally positioned vertically). Credit: JCP Gabriel, CEA Marcoule DES/ISEC/DMRC Our connected consumer society generates a lot of electronic waste, around 50 million tonnes per year worldwide. It is even currently the waste that shows the strongest growth from one year to the next. The value of the…

Photo illustration by Natalie Nelson; photos by David Becker / Stringer, Digital Vision / Photodisc, Getty Images, and Shutterstock How a family of hog farmers manage the excess of the world’s most indulgent city In The Waste Makers, his 1960 history of American consumerism for consumerism’s sake, author Vance Packard describes…

From Arlo Guthrie, who wrote a seven-minute song about taking out the garbage, to Shel Silverstein’s Sarah Sylvia Cynthia Stout, who drowned in her own garbage, our society has long struggled with the excesses of its own existence. Today, Americans hold the title of biggest trash producers in the world,…

Mar 27, 2020 at 05:00 UTCRECYCLE: Plastic bottles washed up on the shore of the Black Sea. (Credit: Shutterstock)Plastics Recycling Looks Promising to Enterprise Blockchain StartupsLike the lingering bit of advice from 1967’s "The Graduate," plastics as a field of opportunity is being reimagined for the blockchain age. But this…

Screenshot: Remedy EntertainmentControl’s new downloadable content, The Foundation, is neither a simple add-on nor an afterthought. Rather, it’s a fully-fleshed out expansion that pulls you deeper into the mysteries, paranormal combat, and sprawling exploration that made Control one of the best games of 2019. In fact, much of The Foundation…