National Geographic - USA (2020-03)
A world without waste sounds impossible. But the vision of a circular economy— where we use resources sparingly and recycle mate ...
THE END OF TRASH ...
The trash silo at a new incinerator in Copen- hagen holds more than 24,000 tons. Automatic cranes mix the waste to help it burn ...
Ta ke MINING MINING EXTRACTION FORESTRY FARMING Minerals 41.8 Ores 10.6 Fossil fuels 18.3 Biomass 31.6 Extracted resources 93 Gl ...
Dispersed into the environment as unrecoverable waste 67.4 Long- lasting material such as buildings and infra- structure 23.7 Ac ...
18th century. Until then, most of what humans did was done with muscle power, whether human or animal. Growing things, making th ...
Virginia. Our conversation ricocheted from his childhood in Tokyo, through Plato, Aristotle, and Buckminster Fuller, to some new ...
Reusing machinery is a time-honored strategy for reducing waste. Nearly 3,300 decommissioned U.S. government planes and helicopt ...
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Switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy, like the heat generated by magma beneath Iceland’s lava fields, is an essential ...
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People have the wrong idea about what hap- pens when they drop clothes into a donation bin, Boer said; they think the clothes ar ...
was ending up in bins, as were nearly 400,000 tons of potatoes a year. In all, Britons were toss- ing one of every three bags of ...
The world’s largest indoor vertical farm, operated by Aerofarms at its headquarters in Newark, New Jersey, aims to raise vegetab ...
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In Prato, Italy, where wool cloth has been produc 3,500 companies employing 40,000 workers pro the wool is sorted by color, wash ...
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