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We are entering the dawn of the terminally ill skyscrapers.
Modern multi-storey buildings started to emerge out of the landscape in the middle of 20th century. And for many of these early skyscrapers...their days are numbered.
The average US multi-storey building will last for about 73 years, according to research…
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A Japanese company is using a children's game as the basis for a new way of demolishing high rise buildings.
Daruma-otoshi is a Japanese children's game, stacked with four coloured pieces of wood. At the top of these pieces sits a Buddhist inspired dharma wish doll. This limbless, blind doll…
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Electronic devices such as mobile phones, computers, printers, photocopiers, televisions and calculators rely on sensitive low voltages and currents. Tiny amounts of water and air corrode many metals and interfere with the transmission of currents. Gold however does not corrode.
The average mobile phone contains about 24mg of gold, 250mg…
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1) Sudokwon, Incheon, South Korea 16,000 to 18,000 tonnes per day. (Principal landfill for cities of Seoul and Incheon and Kyonggi province. Population of areas served about 21 million)
2) Bordo Poniente, Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico City, Mexico 11,000 tonnes per day. (Principal landfill for greater Mexico city. Population about 20 million)…
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Apart from Microsoft, Bill Gates biggest public US investment is in waste.
Currently he owns about USD1.44 billion worth of shares in Republic Services (RSG), the second biggest waste company in the US. In September last year, his private charitable fund (the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust) also owned…
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