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5 clever startups that are making money recycling waste

Apr23
by on April 23, 2019 at 12:56 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Entrepreneur


Can you remember what you were doing on New Year’s Day, 2018? Celebrating or perhaps nursing a hangover? What happened that day created a significant change in global recycling. China, the world’s largest scrap importer, stopped accepting recycled plastic, unsorted scrap paper and significantly reduced imported cardboard from abroad. According to the World Bank, annual waste generation is expected to rise from 2.01 billion tons in 2016 to 3.40 billion tons in 2050. That’s an increase of 70 percent. This, countered with China’s banning of imports of recycled products, has increased the need to look for more innovative and long…

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5 clever startups that are making money recycling waste

Apr23
by on April 23, 2019 at 12:56 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Entrepreneur


Can you remember what you were doing on New Year’s Day, 2018? Celebrating or perhaps nursing a hangover? What happened that day created a significant change in global recycling. China, the world’s largest scrap importer, stopped accepting recycled plastic, unsorted scrap paper and significantly reduced imported cardboard from abroad. According to the World Bank, annual waste generation is expected to rise from 2.01 billion tons in 2016 to 3.40 billion tons in 2050. That’s an increase of 70 percent. This, countered with China’s banning of imports of recycled products, has increased the need to look for more innovative and long…

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Actually, reading books on a phone is great

Apr23
by on April 23, 2019 at 12:31 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Lifestyle


As a physical book apologist, it pains me to write this. I love books. I love the unwieldy weight, the slowly yellowing pages, the (ugh, sorry for the cliché) smell, and the fact that I can look at a stack and recall where and when I read each of them. But I have found a new love. Now book on phone is my best friend. Ever since my son was born, my life has taken an uninvited turn for the practical. And from a purely pragmatic view, ingesting letters from a heavy cuboid that requires multiple hands to continue reading,…

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Actually, reading books on a phone is great

Apr23
by on April 23, 2019 at 12:31 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Lifestyle


As a physical book apologist, it pains me to write this. I love books. I love the unwieldy weight, the slowly yellowing pages, the (ugh, sorry for the cliché) smell, and the fact that I can look at a stack and recall where and when I read each of them. But I have found a new love. Now book on phone is my best friend. Ever since my son was born, my life has taken an uninvited turn for the practical. And from a purely pragmatic view, ingesting letters from a heavy cuboid that requires multiple hands to continue reading,…

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AI is helping regulators keep tabs on new industrial farms and their waste discharging habits

Apr23
by on April 23, 2019 at 12:14 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence, syndication


Researchers have developed an algorithm that uses satellite imagery to rapidly pinpoint industrial livestock farms, manifold faster than humans can do by manually analyzing maps. Now, the researchers think their new analytical tool could help regulators to identify farms that may be breaking environmental laws. The research, led by a team from Stanford University, was premised on the fact that intensive animals farms are notoriously difficult to monitor and regulate in the United States – while also being a huge source of freshwater pollution. Over 40 percent of the country’s livestock now comes from concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), defined as sites…

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