Tag: POLLUTION

What happens to your old electronic device when you upgrade to a newer model? Do you dump your cell phone in the trash? Toss that old desktop into a dumpster? Many people do, but they don't consider where this waste eventually ends up. According to BBC News, much of this "e-waste" finds its way to developing nations, and it could lead to major problems in the future. A U.N. report stated that ...

Recycling cell phones eliminates tons of waste and saves valuable components. For various reasons, though, most people still toss their old phones into the trash or keep them squirreled away in a forgotten drawer or nook. In a true "Why didn't I think of that?" development, ecoATM recently unveiled its first credit-for-phone recycling kiosk (with more to follow) in a Nebraska store. To take ...

When the U.K.'s Met Office for weather research fired up the nation's largest supercomputer in May, the Daily Mail celebrated the enormous weather predictor by saying it would "help save millions of lives by predicting long-term patterns in global warming and forecasting extreme weather events such as typhoons and hurricanes." The Daily Mail reports that the almost $50 million IBM machine, ...

Researchers at the University of Essex in Colchester, England have come up with an original and awesome way to study pollution in the Thames River: pollution-detecting schools of robotic fish. No joke. The £2.5 million (about $1.8 million US dollars) project backed by the European Union is an example of what brilliant people can do if given the right financial backing. The robo-fish will ...

Chinese officials are taking steps to improve air quality and traffic gridlock in Beijing by cutting automobile travel via heavy traffic restrictions during the Olympic games. China's capital city is quickly becoming one the world's most-congested, with over 1,000 new cars being added to the city's streets each day. So how do they plan to do it? It looks like they've gone with a high-tech ...