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AI-Powered Tech Supercharges Ocean Cleanup, Boosting Plastic Collection by 60%
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BALTIMORE, MD, April 23, 2025 – As plastic pollution in the world’s oceans reaches critical levels, groundbreaking new research reveals how artificial intelligence-driven algorithms can dramatically accelerate plastic waste removal – boosting efficiency by more than 60%.

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China’s rare earth minerals power the modern world. Banning their export could destroy it
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Beijing has a virtual monopoly on rare earth minerals—the materials that power everything from military planes to your electric toothbrush.

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Trump’s tech tariff confusion
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The Trump administration’s back-and-forth moves on tariffs for technology products are stirring confusion in a sector heavily reliant on global supply chains.  
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Minimizing food waste is especially important for meat products

The Huffington Post, July 25, 2016

The global demand for meat is continuing to rise, and with meat waste accounting for 21 percent of food waste's global carbon footprint, it is more important than ever to limit how much of our meat leftovers go to waste. Ronald McGarvey, INFORMS member and assistant professor at University of Missouri's Industrial & Manufacturing Systems Engineering Department, discusses the impact that food waste, particularly meat, has on the environment.  

Leading the Pack

Forbes, August 29, 2016

Brenda L. Dietrich, former INFORMS president who leads the data science function of IBM Business Analytics Insights as a Service unit, was named as one of the top nine women leading the pack in data analytics.

"Bags Fly Free" policy could be costing Southwest Airlines

The Dallas Morning News, August 23, 2016

By studying nearly nine million domestic flights, INFORMS members Mazhar Arikan, University of Kansas; Vinayak Deshpande, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Mark Ferguson, University of South Carolina, found that by not charging checked bag fees Southwest Airlines could be impacting their flights' ability to depart on time. Their findings were published in the INFORMS journal Management Science.

Got junk?

Los Angeles Times, August 19, 2016

The LA Times explores garbage orbiting earth and how to clean it up, including a 2009 paper by INFORMS member Lawrence Wein and coauthor Andrew Bradley, both researchers at Stanford University.

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