People are recycling too much garbage, experts say — and it's threatening the economics of the industry

The economics of recycling have shifted drastically over the past year, threatening the viability of single-stream curbside collection in Maryland and across the United States.
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Wireless Carriers Hope You Won't Notice Their Location Data Scandal Makes The Facebook, Cambridge Fracas Look Like Amateur Hour

When the Facebook, Cambridge Analytica scandal broke, we noted that however bad you thought that scandal was (and it certainly was bad), it couldn't hold a candle to the routine privacy abuses that have occurred in the telecom sector for the...
Read more: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180619/11155440068/wireless-carriers-hope-you-wont-notice-their-location-data-scandal-makes-facebook-cambridge-fracas-look-like-amateur-hour.shtml?source=Snapzu

Ecological “law” turns out to just be the result of us fishing

Mature fish are found deep not because of age, climate, or prey, but because of us.
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/ecological-law-turns-out-to-just-be-the-result-of-us-fishing/?source=Snapzu

Why Norway is the best place in the world to be a writer

Travel to Norway and one thing strikes you right away: The country is really small. At about 5 million, its population is the size of Alabama’s. So selling a half-million copies of erudite books there, as Karl Ove Knausgaard has, is even more remarkable than it sounds. This is a tough one to fact-check, but I would estimate that on a per capita basis, his autobiographical series, My Struggle, has already sold about as well in Norway as The Great Gatsby has sold in America all time.
Read more: http://www.preventers.org/2018/01/why-norway-is-best-place-in-world-to-be.html?source=Snapzu

This 101-year-old Florida man still volunteers for Meals on Wheels

Edward Kydd has traveled 13,332 miles in 1,742 hours of service for Meals on Wheels. The Rockledge, Fla., man drives two routes every Monday, accompanied by his traveling companion — his 73-year-old daughter, Janet von Berg. Kydd is 101, by the way.
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/06/18/101-year-old-florida-man-still-volunteers-meals-wheels/709961002/?source=Snapzu

The Untold Good News Story of America Today

A grassroots movement getting few headlines could yet herald a new American age of change.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44349211?source=Snapzu

Women who identify as ‘early birds’ are less likely to get depressed, study claims

Women who describe themselves as “early risers” are less likely to develop depression, new research claims. A study of more than 32,000 women published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research found that those who are naturally inclined to wake up early are at a lower risk of the mental illness due to greater daylight exposure. Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston examined...
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/depression-women-wake-up-early-daylight-exposure-benefits-study-a8400731.html?source=Snapzu