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A trash can full of used supermarket products is used to anger Ann. Now he sees them as saviors

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When she was working for a supermarket, Ann witnessed huge waste products being dumped at the end of each shift. He said employees can’t pick up wasted items at a cheaper price or for free. “It makes me very angry. It makes me question the company’s approach to waste and their environmental impact,” he said. “If stores want to dispose of edible products perfectly, we have to be able to pick them up and use them.” Ann is new to trash diving and says it can be a lifesaver as she struggles to make ends meet. ( provided ) Now Ann is one of the thousands of Australians struggling to keep food on the table as prices rise — and the bins behind those shops are up for looting. “My daughter is ashamed of being ‘poor’ because all her school friends live in a big private house, and their parents drive expensive cars,” she said. “We don’t live on the poverty line, but we live very simply, without the luxuries or advantages that people with more money can buy. We live in small government subsidize

Zip shuts down Singapore, dumps business products for profit

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He said the valuation and focus of the business had changed since the deal was announced in February and “no longer stands for commercial reasons”. “Not having the distractions of integrating other businesses allows us to focus on our core business,” said Gray. Zip submitted its fourth-quarter results update early Thursday, pledging to reduce its offshore footprint, including exiting Singapore immediately and closing its lending business unit. Revenue jumped 27 percent compared with a year ago to $160.1 million and margin on cash transactions increased to 2.4 percent from 2.3 percent in the third quarter. “In line with its strategic objective to focus on the core markets of Australia and New Zealand and the US, this quarter Zip continued to make changes and decisions to precisely measure its global footprint and reduce the group’s cash outlays,” chief executive and founder Larry Diamond said in a statement. The news sent Zip shares up another 3 percent to 68¢ early Thursday, for a tota

More research is needed on the toxicity of cannabis vaping products

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Recently Toxicology study , scientists assessed the challenges vaping cannabinoid products pose during an analysis of their effects on consumers’ respiratory health. Study: Cannabinoid Vaping Products Present New Challenges for Assessment of Respiratory Health Effects. Image Credit: Shannon L. Price / Shutterstock.com Cannabinoid vaping products Some common cannabinoid vaping products include D9-tetrahydrocannabinol (D9-THC), D8-tetrahydrocannabinol (D8-THC), as well as cannabidiol (CBD) products. Several studies regarding e-cigarettes or vaping have shown side effects, particularly in terms of their ability to cause lung injury, associated with cannabinoid vaping products. According to a February 2020 United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report, 2,807 people were hospitalized and 68 deaths occurred due to using cannabinoid vaping products. Several studies have shown that among e-cigarette/vaping users with product use-related lung injury (EVALI), 82% re

Prenatal exposure to chemicals in consumer and industrial products is associated with increased liver disease in children

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Credit: Public Domain CC0 The increased incidence of potentially cancer-causing liver disease in children is associated with prenatal exposure to several endocrine-disrupting chemicals, report Mount Sinai researchers. This is the first comprehensive study of the association of prenatal exposure to these chemicals and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. The researchers used cytokeratin-18 as a new marker of disease in children. The findings, reported in JAMA Network Open in July, underscoring the importance of understanding prenatal exposure to environmental chemicals as a risk factor for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, which is a rapidly growing problem in children that can lead to severe chronic liver disease and liver cancer in adulthood. “These findings may inform more efficient early-life prevention and intervention strategies to address the current epidemic of non-alcoholic fatty liver dise