Jonathan Bijur, executive director of reDiscover Center, wields a laser-cut, pair of scissors and a crown cut from cardboard.... It’s dull enough to put people to sleep on a podcast, yet so vital the Fed tracks it as a harbinger of future recessions.... We use tons of it — tens of millions of tons annually, according to the EPA — but recycle so much that we waste 10 million tons less than when Oscar the Grouch sang “ I Love Trash ” on Sesame Street in 1970....

The world threw away a record amount of smartphones, televisions and other electrical devices in 2022, the UN said March 20, warning this avalanche of dumped gadgets was polluting the planet. Less than one quarter of the 62 million tonnes of ewaste produced in 2022 was recycled, resulting in heavy metals, plastics and toxic chemicals leaking from junked devices." This is a big catastrophe for the environment," Kees Balde, lead author of the latest Global E-waste Monitor, told AFP.It also poses h

The study, led by Maitreyi Misra, a founding member of Project 39A at the National Law University, Delhi, was released on Wednesday.... As of 2020, India is one of just 55 countries to retain the death penalty, while 109 have abolished it in law, 28 in practice, and eight use it for exceptional circumstances such as war crimes, according to Amnesty International.... As many as 51 of the 88 prisoners were less than 30 years of age at the time of the alleged crime. Nearly six out of 10 belonged

LAGOS: Startups in Nigeria are helping fight counterfeit pharmaceutical drugs in Africa’s most populous nation, where the prevalence rate of fake drugs is higher than the global average 10% and contributes to several deaths annually. The most counterfeited are drugs for anti-malaria, pain and antibiotics, according to the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control( Nafdac).To fight the flood of fake pills, the agency, in partnership with the startups has created stickers with u

Amy Marsh had never seen so much alcohol consumed at a work affair when she and her husband hosted a 2018 holiday party at Travis Air Force Base in Northern California, she said.... Among other shortcomings in the system, critics say, victims are too often doubted or pressured not to bring formal charges, even more than in the civilian world.... Senior officers who have responsibility for prosecuting offenders too often side with the accused, rather than the victim....

The hawksbill sea turtle lay belly-up on the metal autopsy table, its shell ashen and stomach taut.A week ago, the adolescent turtle washed up on a beach in Kalba, a city on the east coast of the United Arab Emirates.... Once unspoiled, the coast of mangrove trees is now fouled by piles of trash dragged from nearby landfills.... A staggering 75% of all dead green turtles and 57% of all loggerhead turtles in Sharjah had eaten marine debris, including plastic bags, bottle caps, rope and fishing

A “ wonder weevil ” has been introduced to fight the invasive floating pennywort weed that grows 20cm a day in rivers. The non-native South American weevil has been released into waterways in a world-first effort to tackle the highly invasive plant, which is making Britain’s waterways inaccessible to canoes and anglers.It marks the first time floating pennywort has been tackled through a “ biocontrol ” measure, where an animal rather than pesticide or mechanical method is used to reduce the spre

Local authorities dealt with 1.13 million cases of rubbish dumped on highways and in beauty spots in 2020-21, up 16 per cent from 980, 000 the previous year.... However, the number of fines handed down by courts to offenders fell by more than half, to just 1, 313, from 2, 672 in 2019-20.... New financial penalties have come into force to crack down on fly-tipping. The majority of householders already dispose of their waste responsibly, however any householder who fails to pass their waste to a

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