China
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Nearly 50 million people in the US are traveling today. Travel safely and have a great 4th. A $1 million dollar robot is the future of fruit-picking. Each robot will be able to pick more than 25,000 raspberries a day, outpacing human workers who manage about 15,000 in an eight-hour shift, according to Fieldwork Robotics,…
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Last year, when China, the biggest consumer of discarded plastics, banned nearly all waste imports, it signaled a sea change in the global recycling system. The trade in plastics quickly rerouted to neighboring Southeast Asian countries that lacked effective recycling plants and disposal laws, leaving much of the waste to be burned or dumped in fields and…