recycling
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Watch Old US Dollar Bills Get Turned Into Dirt
Video: When the Fed constantly replaces old, tattered dollar bills with new, crispy cash, millions of notes get pulled out of circulation while new dollar bills get put in circulation. So what happens to all that old money? It gets shredded. But then what?
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Why Are We So Bad At Recycling Rare Metals From Technology?
Last month, the internet flew into a frenzy over news that Apple recovered $US40 ($52) million worth of gold from old gadgets last year. That story turned out to be wildly oversold. But our eagerness to celebrate a tech company’s recycling victory speaks to a disturbing truth.
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Simple Tool Turns Plastic Bottles Into Nearly Indestructible Plastic Rope
Big Rope has a stranglehold on the ‘tying things down’ industry, and if you’re tired of paying through the nose for a few metres of twine, you’ll want to consider backing the Kickstarter campaign for this simple tool that can turn empty plastic bottles into super strong plastic rope.
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This Ingenious Printer Recycles Scrap Paper Into New Paper Right In Your Office
This is PaperLab: Epson says it’s the world’s first recycling system to take waste paper and instantly transform it into new paper — onsite, in your office.