waste
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See The Island In Maldives Made Entirely Of Trash
The Maldives is one of the world’s most beautiful places — and one of the places most threatened by climate change, as about 80% of the island nation sits 1 metre below sea level rise. Ironically, the highest spot above sea level in the country is made out of trash, piled meters higher above the…
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Scott Morrison Wants You To Recycle More
The Prime Minister has launched a new campaign, ReMade In Australia, urging Aussies to recycle more and buy things made from recycled materials.
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Will We Ever Be Able to Clean Up All Our Trash?
We die and decompose, but a growing portion of our garbage lives on. Your great-grandfather’s bones have become organic matter in the soil, but the same cannot be said for the Mr. Goodbar wrapper he discarded 80 years ago today. Our landfills are poorly organised museums, robustly endowed and expanding by the second. Some, of…
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How Cameras and AI Can Be Used to Build an Automatic Litter Detection System
It’s estimated about two million tonnes of plastics enter the oceans from rivers each year. But our waterways aren’t just conveyor belts transporting land waste to the oceans: they also capture and retain litter. Currently, the most common method for monitoring litter relies on humans conducting on-ground visual counts. This process is labour-intensive and makes…