Published on: 2025-04-29 23:31:05
Federal scientists responsible for monitoring the health of West Coast fisheries are cleaning office bathrooms and reconsidering critical experiments after the Department of Commerce failed to renew their lab’s contracts for hazardous waste disposal, janitorial services, IT, and building maintenance. Trash is piling up at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, staffers told ProPublica. Ecologists, chemists, and biologists at Montlake
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-09 09:27:09
In a dimly lit, cluttered workshop in Delhi’s Nehru Place, the air hums with the sound of whirring drills and the crackle of soldering irons. Sushil Prasad, a 35-year-old technician, wipes the sweat off his brow as he carefully pieces together the guts of an old laptop. It is a daily ritual — resurrecting machines by stitching together motherboards, screens, and batteries scavenged from other trashed older laptops and e-waste — to create functional, low-cost devices. “India has always had a rep
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 03:00:00
In a dimly lit, cluttered workshop in Delhi’s Nehru Place, the air hums with the sound of whirring drills and the crackle of soldering irons. Sushil Prasad, a 35-year-old technician, wipes the sweat off his brow as he carefully pieces together the guts of an old laptop. It is a daily ritual — resurrecting machines by stitching together motherboards, screens, and batteries scavenged from other trashed older laptops and e-waste — to create functional, low-cost devices. “India has always had a rep
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-14 07:09:00
When you're paying for an item by weight, in culinary math terms the yield, or "edible portion" of a given item factors into its actual cost, which is necessary for chefs to consider when accounting for how to price a dish. In short, some types of produce are a better deal, ounce for ounce, than others. Does that mean you should be calculating every element that goes into your home-cooked meals? Probably not. (Or rather, hopefully not? Given the state of the economy and the price of eggs, some
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-19 03:03:00
Why it matters: Vaping has been around for a long time, but its popularity didn't skyrocket until the early 2010s. Since then, it has significantly contributed to the world's e-waste problem, with thousands of disposable devices filling landfills and recycling centers. Not only are e-cigarettes damaging to the environment, but they are also a growing fire hazard. Fire Rover, a company that specializes in automated and semi-automated fire suppression systems, released its annual report noting th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-21 15:23:30
2024 was "a year of growth," according to fire-suppression company Fire Rover, but that's not an entirely good thing. The company, which offers fire detection and suppression systems based on thermal and optical imaging, smoke analytics, and human verification, releases annual reports on waste and recycling facility fires in the US and Canada to select industry and media. In 2024, Fire Rover, based on its fire identifications, saw 2,910 incidents, a 60 percent increase from the 1,809 in 2023, a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-07 06:19:00
While in culinary school, our class was asked to do something I think most of us had hoped to avoid as aspiring chefs: math. What we were calculating was the actual cost of ingredients, mainly produce, based on how much of a given item is usable. Consider unavoidable food waste such as banana peels, the cores of bell peppers, the ends of celery, and so on. When you're paying for an item by weight, in culinary math terms the yield, or "edible portion" of a given item factors into its actual cos
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-13 13:02:00
Once upon a time, in culinary school, we were asked to do something I think most of us had hoped to avoid as aspiring chefs: math. Rather than prepping food for the pan, by precisely cubing potatoes and dicing up the day's mirepoix with our usual knives, we spent the morning with retractable pencils, doing a little light algebra. What we were calculating was the actual cost of ingredients, mainly produce, based on how much of a given item is usable. Consider unavoidable food waste such as banan
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-13 18:02:00
Once upon a time, in culinary school, we were asked to do something I think most of us had hoped to avoid as aspiring chefs: math. Rather than prepping food for the pan, by precisely cubing potatoes and dicing up the day's mirepoix with our usual knives, we spent the morning with retractable pencils, doing a little light algebra. What we were calculating was the actual cost of ingredients, mainly produce, based on how much of a given item is usable. Consider unavoidable food waste such as banan
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-14 10:00:06
Once upon a time, in culinary school, we were asked to do something I think most of us had hoped to avoid as aspiring chefs: math. Rather than prepping food for the pan, by precisely cubing potatoes and dicing up the day's mirepoix with our usual knives, we spent the morning with retractable pencils, doing a little light algebra. (The horror!) What we were calculating was the actual cost of ingredients, mainly produce, based on how much of a given item is usable. Consider unavoidable food waste
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-14 06:17:00
In a nutshell: As Microsoft prepares to end free security updates for Windows 10 in October, a significant challenge looms for charities that refurbish and distribute older computers to those in need. With an estimated 240 million PCs unable to meet the stringent hardware requirements for Windows 11, these organizations face a difficult decision: provide potentially insecure Windows 10 systems, send them to e-waste recyclers, or explore alternative operating systems like Linux. Microsoft's requ
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-12 00:07:20
“This photo was taken at the MycoTile waste-processing space at the Kenya Industrial Research and Development Institute in Nairobi. The sacks are full of sugar-cane bagasse, a fibrous material that is left behind when the juice is extracted. Sugar-cane processing factories produce mountains of bagasse as waste. I’m the co-founder and chief executive of MycoTile, which works to produce affordable building materials out of agricultural waste bonded with oyster-mushroom mycelium, a network of tiny
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 10:00:46
Unlike burning fossil fuels, nuclear power plants release very few greenhouse gases. They’re safer than they’ve ever been, and currently generate around a fifth of the U.S.’s electricity. However, nuclear power plants produce hazardous waste, and scientists are still searching for effective ways to manage this dangerous byproduct. What if we could do more than just store it—what if we could use it to create more energy? Inspired by this idea, researchers in Ohio have developed a small battery p
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-03 04:00:00
A U.K. startup, originating from founder Jacob Nathan’s high school science project on using enzymes to break down plastic waste, has secured an oversubscribed $18.3 million in Series A funding. Founded in 2019 in London, Epoch Biodesign now a 30+ strong multidisciplinary team of chemists, biologists and software engineers. It will be using the new funding to scale up production of their plastic-eating enzymes. This means transferring the biorecycling process from the labs where they’ve been de
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 11:00:00
After mixing wastewater from the rum distillery with sargassum, they ran some experiments in the lab. “And the thing is, it worked!” says Henry, who has a master’s in mechanical engineering from MIT and a PhD from the University of the West Indies (where she is a lecturer). Microbes in the mix fed on sugar in the wastewater and digested the seaweed—and what Henry thought might turn out to be a “nice paper” has since become what she calls a “game changer.” Sargassum, which has been distributed b
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