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60% of home 'compostable' plastic ends up in our soil instead
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Global plastic pollution remains one of the biggest environmental challenges of our time. A new report shows that plastic consumption has quadrupled over the past 30 years. Globally, only 9% of plastic waste is recycled, while 50% ends up in landfills, 22% evades waste management systems, and 19% is incinerated.
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Digitalization of Agriculture
06:43|“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it ripens; you have to make it fall”. Therefore, the best answer to the above question is revolutionizing the system like what we did during the 1960s and 1990s. The First Agricultural Revolution in South Africa, which exponentially increased the yield of food crops and saved millions of lives, came in form of the Green Revolution in the 1960s. The second revolution came in form of the Biotechnological
Farming in the Digital Age
03:55|Modern technologies, including imaging, autonomous vehicles and machine learning are combining to bring efficiency and greater production to today’s farming sector.
AGRI NEWS RUSH - News Headlines of the Week 5 October 2024
06:00|Weekend Rush Summary of News headlines
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How much does aviation contribute to climate change?
05:44|Aviation will be one of the toughest sectors to decarbonise. It’s also an area that creates a lot of confusion. For those that fly, it’s one of the largest chunks of their carbon footprint. But because most people don’t fly, it emits just 2% to 3% of global emissions