Maine, like all states, needs landfills. But landfills present challenges and some opportunities to the communities where they are located. We’ll learn
According to a recent World Air Quality report, Thailand is the world’s 23rd most polluted country and in 2018 it was ranked sixth largest contributor to ocean waste by SCB’s Economic Intelligence Center. There are few who would deny the urgent need to reduce and recycle here and everyone has a part to play in this endeavour, which is why Bangkok-based artist Wishulada Panthanuvong has chosen to turn her passion and creativity into an educative platform to combat plastic pollution.
“Ever since I was little I have seen alternative uses for all kinds of objects,” the 28-year-old laughs. “What others would see as simple buttons or clothes hangers I saw as potential eyes and arms for something I could create.” Given her parents run a trash separation operation, Wishulada was surrounded by an abundance of cast-off materials with which to experiment. Incorporating waste items into her art began as an attempt to get rid of some of the plastic accumulated by mum and dad.
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While it contains hazardous elements that need to be processed and contained, it also includes valuable metals such as copper, gold, silver, platinum, palladium and other strategically valuable metals for technologies we use every day.
The concentration of selected metals in e-waste is, in some cases, higher than in their primary minerals/ores underground.
One example: it takes about 0.5-1 tonnes of gold ores to produce the gold in a wedding ring (about 2 grams). This same amount of gold can be obtained from just 15-30kg of end-of-life mobile phones.
Here’s a Cut-Up Boeing 727 Slowly Crawling Down the Motorway to Its New Home 2 Mar 2021, 12:53 UTC ·
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Both these things happened in the UK the other day, when a decommissioned, cut-up Boeing 727 slowly made its way to its new home at a speed of about 20 mph (32 kph), causing traffic delays on the M5 and getting curious motorists to whip out their cellphones. It also got its own police escort because its size meant it took up two lanes of traffic.
The story of this plane, dubbed Pytch Air, is just as fascinating as the sight of it. You can see a video of how it was moved from Cotswold Airport in Glouchestershire to Bristol, where it will be turned into an office building. The aircraft belongs to businessman Johnny Palmer, who bought the decommissioned plane in 2018 but just recently came up with the idea for repurposing it, according to the Express.