sans titre Accessibility links Languages VOA Learning English PreviousNext Breaking News Live As It Is Southeast Asia to Wealthy Nations: Stop Sending Us Mountains of Plastic Waste May 02, 2019 Embed Southeast Asia to Wealthy Nations: Stop Sending Us Mountains of Plastic Waste The code has been copied to your clipboard. The URL has been copied to your clipboard No media source currently available Direct link China has stopped accepting plastic trash from rich countries. See TV Programs See Radio Programs Back to top Top 5 Innovative and Informative Waste Management and Recycling Apps | by Swachhcoin | Medium The global waste management industry was one of the few industries that were less receptive of new technologies. However, things are changing as the global waste management industry is majorly utilizing innovative technologies to combat the waste crisis and environmental pollution. Now, we have technologies like smart bins deployed in major cities of the world. Yet, we have come to realize that the success of these innovative solutions significantly relies on the environmental consciousness of residents. As such, it is important to motivate and inform people about the importance of managing and recycling waste. This is where waste management and recycling apps come in. IRecycle Earth 911 which is an organization determined to spread the word about the benefit of recycling waste launched the iRecycle app. Gimme 5 There are different types of plastics; some are not recyclable, while some are known to be more profitable when recycled. Waste Management App RecycleNation My Waste
sans titre A trove of data showing when the Atlantic began choking with plastic has been uncovered in the handwritten logbooks of a little-known but doggedly persistent plankton study dating back to the middle of the last century. From fishing twine found in the ocean in the 50s, then a first carrier bag in 1965, it reflects how the marine refuse problem grew from small, largely ignored incidents to become a matter of global concern. The unique dataset, published in Nature Communications, is based on records from the continuous plankton recorder, a torpedo-shaped marine sampling device that has been towed across more than 6.5m nautical miles of ocean over the past 60 years. Based firstly in Hull, then Edinburgh and Plymouth, the long-running programme was initially designed to collect pelagic plankton, which are an indicator of water quality and also a source of food for whales and other marine life. The start of the problem was so slow it was barely noticed.
sans titre Microbes Consuming Plastic May Save Our Oceans - 22 May 2019 (neatorama.com) Straws: UK government to bring in new controls on plastic - with pictures and a video - 22 May 2019 "In a bid to limit ocean pollution, the UK government will introduce new controls on single use plastic items next year." (BBC) Plastic pollution: Flip-flop tide engulfs 'paradise' island - with pictures - 16 May 2019 "Scientists estimated that the beaches of Australia's Cocos (Keeling) Islands are strewn with around 414 million pieces of plastic pollution." + Deepest-ever sub dive finds plastic waste + Recycled plastic to make Glastonbury arena + Farmers could 'burn or bury' plastic + Why plastic recycling is so confusing (BBC) "Close to a million plastic shoes, mainly flip flops are among the torrent of debris washed up on an "unspoilt paradise" in the Indian Ocean."
sans titre Wealthy countries are exporting millions of tons of plastic waste to Southeast Asia, where local recycling systems cannot process all of it. Greenpeace and the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, or GAIA, studied the issue. Their joint investigation found that the exports of plastic waste are causing widespread pollution problems. In early 2018, China banned the import of plastic waste for recycling. The ban sent the international trade in recycled materials into disorder. Greenpeace and GAIA workers gathered information from the top 21 importers and exporters of plastic waste. Over half of the plastic --more than 3 million tons a year -- used to go to China. Kate Lin is a project leader at Greenpeace. "They do not have enough capacities for handling such a large amount of imported foreign waste, so there is some pollution to the local environment." The Malaysian village of Jenjarom is about 50 kilometers outside Kuala Lumpur. I’m Jill Robbins. fume – n. a smoke or gas
sans titre Time travel — moving between different points in time — has been a popular topic for science fiction for decades. Franchises ranging from "Doctor Who" to "Star Trek" to "Back to the Future" have seen humans get in a vehicle of some sort and arrive in the past or future, ready to take on new adventures. Each come with their own time travel theories. The reality, however, is more muddled. Not all scientists believe that time travel is possible. Understanding time What is time? Einstein's theory of special relativity says that time slows down or speeds up depending on how fast you move relative to something else. Picture a four-dimensional fabric called space-time. Both the general and special relativity theories have been proven with GPS satellite technology that has very accurate timepieces on board. In a sense, this effect, called time dilation, means astronauts are time travelers, as they return to Earth very, very slightly younger than their identical twins that remain on the planet.
sans titre PTE Academic Essay Connectors Students can use the connectors below for PTE essay writing You can use PTE essay template for writing practice. Also Read: Latest PTE Essay Topics for PTE Academic writing PTE essay structure Full list PTE Academic solved essays sans titre Three academics conducted what they call a "grievance studies" experiment. They wrote fake papers on ridiculous subjects and submitted them to prominent academic journals in fields that study gender, race, and sexuality. They did this to "expose a political corruption that has taken hold of the universities," say the hoaxers in a video which documented the process. John Stossel interviewed James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian who, along with Helen Pluckrose, sent so-called research papers to 20 journals. They were surprised when seven papers were accepted. One claimed that "dog humping incidents at dog parks" can be taken as "evidence of rape culture." Click here for full text and downloadable versions.
We couldn’t live without ‘zero’ – but we once had to - BBC Future In 1299, zero was banned in Florence, along with all Arabic numerals, because they were said to encourage fraud. Zero could easily be doctored to become nine, and why not add a few zeros on the end of a receipt to inflate the price? What’s more, zero was seen to set a dangerous precedent because it was the gateway to negative numbers. Nothing to celebrate Incredibly it wasn’t until the 15th Century that zero, along with all the other Arabic numbers, was finally accepted. Both, no doubt, helped zero to flourish as an idea in mathematics, and it formed the basis of some of the most incredible scientific and technological methods we use today. As Bellos wonderfully describes: “The Renaissance was really sparked by the arrival of the Arabic number system, containing zero.
sans titre Reassuring passengers about this subconscious fear, not to mention about the stress caused by delayed flights, lost luggage or even the mere idea of airplane travel, is important. So is encouraging people to follow the rules and heed authority. To accomplish both of these tasks, airport designers the world over use subtle (and not so subtle) cues. One main cue is a process called “wayfinding”: visual suggestions that herd passengers quickly and efficiently to their gates without them realising that they are being herded. You might also like:• How flying messes with your mind• The hacks that make air travel less painful• The border guards you can’t win over with a smile More stressful even than the idea of going to the wrong terminal, however, is probably the security process.
The woman who reshaped maths - BBC Future Women’s colleges provided essential opportunities for women as both professors and students. But, as Leff points out, “women’s colleges were colleges”, so they didn’t support the same type of sophisticated research that Geiringer had been doing in universities. Any research she did would be outside of her college duties and typically unpaid. Geiringer never found in a US university a position equal to what she had in Germany and Turkey. After accepting her post at Wheaton, Geiringer wrote to von Mises, “I hope there will be better conditions for the next generations of women. And Geiringer did go on. Even if Geiringer didn’t get exactly what she wanted, she never gave up on chasing that deepest need in her life. Missed Genius Ask people to imagine a scientist, and many of us will picture the same thing – a heterosexual white male. Portrait of Hilda Geiringer by Emmanuel Lafont.