One mans trash is another man’s treasure – which is why the Olympians at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic games will be receiving recycled trash as their prizes. That’s right the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games has created an innovative, environmentally conscious

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BlueOak Resources, a startup company backed by some of the biggest names in U.S. venture capital has raised $35 million in project financing to mine precious metals in Arkansas. BlueOak won’t be strip-mining, open-pit mining, or moving mountains to get at precious metals. Instead the company