These special ticket-vending machines in Beijing accept used water bottles as payment for your subway ticket
In order to fight the mounting problem of plastic waste that eventually ends up in our landfills and oceans, Beijing has come up with a unique idea to encourage its citizens to recycle used plastic bottles. The subway stations in Beijing have special ticket-vending machines that accept used plastic bottles from people. Once entered in the recycling machine, the bottles are first scanned so that their value is...
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This girl scout troop comprising of 300 homeless kids just smashed their cookie sales target
It is not unusual for girl scout troops to sell thousands of cookie boxes every spring in New York. However, what makes this one particular group special is that all its 300 members are living in homeless shelters. Girl Scout Troop 6000’s goal was to sell 6,000 boxes of cookies at their first ever sale. The troop received special permission to set up shop at Kellogg’s NYC Café in Union Square. By the...
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Meet the 80-year-old man who has helped save 10 million liters of water – one leaking tap at a time
He is an ordinary man on an extraordinary mission. Growing up on the pavements of Mumbai, where he saw his mother queue up at 4 in the morning along with several other neighbors for just one bucket of water, the sight of dripping taps always bothered him. The man is national award-winning author of 80 books, cartoonist, artist and environmentalist Aabid Surti. In 2007, Mr. Surti read a newspaper report which...
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These two teenagers rescued a little kangaroo stuck in neck-deep mud
This heartwarming gesture of two Sydney teenagers has restored our faith in humanity! Nick Heath and Jack Donnelly spotted a helpless kangaroo stuck up to its neck in mud in the outskirts of Sydney. The brave boys were riding their motorbikes near the Nepean River when they saw a tiny animal head poking out of a mud quarry. As they realized they were unable to reach the poor creature on their own, they rushed...
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New England aquarium releases 14 sea turtles after rehabilitation
After treating and rehabilitating 14 sea turtles that were found stranded on Cape Cod beaches last November and December, biologists at the New England Aquarium of Boston released them back into the Atlantic Ocean. When rescued, the turtles had been suffering from severe hypothermia after failing to migrate south. Biologists determined the turtles were ready to be released but there was one problem: the ocean...
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Here is world’s first collapsible, reusable steel straw that fits into a keychain
The world seems to have finally declared war on single-use plastic straws! And rightly so, as tonnes of those end up in our oceans and landfills where they will stay for thousands of years causing severe damage to our environment and wildlife. Now the Kickstarter project has introduced FinalStraw – a collapsible, reusable drinking straw, made from stainless steel and medical grade tubing – and it may...
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This brave man stopped the waffle house shooter by snatching his weapon
All heroes don’t wear capes! This was proved by James Shaw Jr., the brave man who single-handedly ambushed the Tennessee waffle house shooter and managed to wrestle the rifle from him. His heroic act ended the deadly shooting at the waffle house before more lives were lost. “I just want to be put out there like a regular person,” he said. Maybe then, if people find themselves in dangerous situations,...
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This Indian restaurant in Auckland offered free food to people affected by storm
After a severe storm hit the city of Auckland in New Zealand, around 93,000 homes were left without any power, with some unable to get it restored for days. At such a time, this offer by an Indian restaurant proved to be a blessing for many helpless people. Auckland-based restaurateurs Roberto Giampaolo and Kamesh Kunala, who jointly manage Satya South Indian Restaurants, said they were offering free meals to...
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State Trooper saves two bear cubs after mother gets killed in a car crash
Virginia State Trooper DH Cepelnik has become an online hero after he rescued two bear cubs who got orphaned when their mother was killed in a car collision in Franklin County, Virginia. The two bear cubs have been moved to a wildlife center in Waynesboro, Virginia and are ‘safe and sound’. They will most probably be released into the wild after one year. The official Twitter account of VA State...
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This company is making t-shirts from plastic bottles
Fashion company The North Face is collecting discarded plastic bottles from three of America’s beautiful national parks – Yosemite, Grand Teton, and Great Smoky Mountains – and making t-shirts and tote bags out of them under the brand name ‘Bottle Source’. So far, The North Face has collected around 160,000 lbs of plastic bottles. The collected bottles are ground, melted, and spun...
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