Americans tossed 292.4 million tons of trash into landfills in 2018, or about 5 pounds of garbage per person per day. Once in a landfill, much of that trash undergoes some wild chemistry, often polluting the surrounding area. But amid all the stinking refuse is potentially valuable material, and some environmentalists and engineers see landfills … Read more
Ida is a relatively new French startup that wants to work with supermarkets and grocery stores to optimize new orders of fresh products, such as fruits, vegetables, meat, poultry and fish. The startup recently raised a $2.9 million (€2.7 million) seed round from Frst, Daphni, Motier Ventures and Kima Ventures. Right now, grocery stores mostly … Read more
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Russia has accused Ukraine of damaging a nuclear waste storage facility in a drone strike on the Kursk nuclear power plant and said its air defenses shot down a total of eight Ukrainian drones ByThe Associated Press October 28, 2023, 10:36 AM Friends light torches at the burial of Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr Hrianyk in Kyiv, … Read more
Building a startup takes a lot of time and work. You need to not only build a great product, you need to hire, raise money, spend that money, and do it all in a way that will minimize mistakes and maximize profits. There’s oceans of advice, too, on how to run a business. Events are … Read more
Resourcify, a waste management and recycling platform, today announced that it raised €14 million ~($14.94 million) in a Series A round led by Vorwerk Ventures with participation from Revent, Ananda Impact Ventures, Speedinvest, BonVenture and WEPA Ventures. It’s a win for Gary Lewis, Resourcify’s CEO, who joined forces with Felix Heinricy in 2018 to launch … Read more
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TISZAROFF, Hungary — Hundreds of muddy plastic bottles, chunks of Styrofoam and different waterlogged items of garbage are piled onto a flatbed trailer on the banks of the Tisza River in Hungary — a metric ton of waste that was eliminated by hand from the waterway and its floodplain in a single day. It’s the … Read more
Muscle groups Aged folks may keep stronger for longer after scientists found why muscular tissues fail to restore themselves, and waste away with age. A workforce at Nottingham Trent College analysed the genes inside muscle cells to learn the way their efficiency differed between folks of their 20s, in comparison with these of their 60s. … Read more
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