When In Rome, Recycle Like The Ancient Romans Did

06/05/2020 3 min Temporada 2 Episodio 292

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Episode Synopsis

The city of Pompeii was buried by Mount Vesuvius almost 2,000 years ago. And yet something there may sound very familiar to us today: the community had a pretty elaborate recycling system. Plus: why staff at the Sumida Aquarium in Tokyo are encouraging people to video chat with their eels.
Did the Ancient Pompeiians Invent Recycling? New Research Suggests They Used Trash to Build City Walls (and Much More) (Artnet)
Japanese aquarium urges public to video-chat eels who are forgetting humans exist (The Guardian)
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