Interesting Links for 07-06-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Scotland's first electric HGV starts making trips

(tags:scotland transport electricity )

2. Photoshop's new "Generative Fill" feature is really impressive.

(tags:ai photoshop )

3. The science around babies and sleep is, frankly terrible. (And the article assumes you'll be doing sleep training at all)

(tags:research babies sleep )

4. Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People

(tags:Intelligence ai society )

5. The cultural bias of "ultra-processed food"

(tags:food society )

6. Edinburgh tram time-lapse shows route extension (opening today!)

(tags:Edinburgh trams timelapse video )

7. UK government ignored that major drinks companies, retailers, and trade bodies, as well as the Environment Agency wanted glass to be included in the deposit return scheme.

(tags:uk recycling OhForFucksSake glass )

8. Your Reminder that "AI" Will Just Flat-Out Make Things Up

(tags:ai fraud )

9. Who wants to eat a giant isopod from the depths of the ocean?

(tags:animals food weird taiwan )

Comments

[channelpenguin]

7. Glass is returnable here in Germany - but you only get 8c , you get 25 for a plastic bottle or aluminium can.

[dewline]

Wishing that the same happened in Canada. Every plastic bottle: pop, fruit juice, ketchup/catsup, mustard, salad dressing, shampoo/body wash, and so on!

[bens_dad]

7. I too remember deposits on glass bottles, and searching for discarded bottles to claim the deposit.

In 1978 the deposit on a "large" glass bottle - 10p - would buy a bag of crisps (7p or 8p).
I suppose the introduction of plastic bottles reduced the value of an empty glass bottle :-(

A year or two back I filled in a government survey on bottle-recycling. Worryingly to save space they were talking of crushing them. No problem for plastic or alumin(i)um but it is much more energy efficient to make a glass bottle from a similar bottle than from a pile of glass chippings.
I think I mentioned that recycling was the fifth of the "Six Rs": Refuse (decline), Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose, Recycle, Refuse (trash). Thus Reuse should be the aim.