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"China has been a major destination for Australia's recycled waste, with around 1.3 million tonnes exported in 2016–17. This accounted for 4 per cent of Australia's total recyclable waste, but included significant amounts of recyclable plastics and recyclable paper (35 per cent and 30 per cent of Australia's totals)."

https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Sen...

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from http://twitter.com/cern

"Experiments are collecting their first physics data - historic moment here! Watch the webcast, look at the photos - all live!"

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A lot of the themes and messages in Avatar are very common in science fiction, in particular the parallels with the story of Dune are striking:

- greedy corporation seeks to exploit a resource with little regard for the native population (spice/unobtainium)

- saviour from same race as greedy corporation is accepted into native population and through a mythical prophecy, becomes leader and unites tribes against greedy corporation

- native population and their natural habitat are massively underestimated and through help of saviour defeat greedy corporation

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