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This small fishing town in India impressively tackles the problem of ocean plastic
Kollam, a small fishing town in the southernmost Indian state of Kerala, had been facing an environmental problem for the past few decades. The fishermen in the area were tired of catching more plastic trash than fish in their nets. They later spent hours separating plastic from their catch. As the town had no recycling plant or waste collection facility, the fishermen could do nothing but complain and throw the...
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This 8-year-old earned $21,000 from his recycling business
Ryan Hickman, all of 8 years, has a flourishing recycling business in Orange County, CA, and he has already saved a whopping $21,000 for his college fund. His interest in recycling began way back in 2012 when he visited the local recycling center with his dad and cashed in a few small bags of cans and bottles. When Ryan notified his parents that he wanted to give empty plastic bags to all the neighbors and maybe...
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Doctor creates an app to assist deaf parents that lets them know when and why their baby is crying
While normal parents can ascertain after some time what their babies’ cries mean – whether they are crying from fussiness, hunger or pain – deaf parents have no way of knowing that. To help such parents, Dr. Ariana Anderson at the UCLA Medical Center and Semel Institute developed the Crybaby app that alerts deaf parents when their kids are crying, and also explains why the infants are crying....
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