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Turning Textile Waste Into Stronger Packaging Paper

Fast fashion has made clothing cheaper than ever, but at a high environmental cost. Earth.org estimates that about 92 million tons of unwanted clothing end up in landfills every year. That is the equivalent of a garbage truck full of clothes being dumped every second. Thomas Harter and his team at Austria's Graz University of Technology hope to help reduce this waste by using discarded clothes to create stronger packaging material....

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Turning Textile Waste Into Stronger Packaging Paper

Pi Day — A Celebration Of Math And Pie!

A holiday dedicated to a math constant might not sound thrilling. But Pi ("π") Day, celebrated annually in the US on March 14 (3/14), is an exception. The festivities usually start with pi-themed activities to celebrate the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter (approximately 3.14). But they almost always end with a delicious slice of pie....

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Pi Day — A Celebration Of Math And Pie!