【推荐1】This year has witnessed many new products hitting the market, and we have rounded up the most inviting product launches that you may have missed.

Woodfire Outdoor Oven

One of the newest, the most exciting products is the Woodfire Outdoor Oven, which can make not only pizza in three minutes, but plenty of other delicious dishes. It can also roast, bake or even keep items warm if your backyard party guests are running late. Our reviewer loves the oven because it cooks food evenly without you even needing to turn it.

Hatch Rest Go

It is one of the most unique in a long time. It’s a portable device you can take with you to provide comforting sleep sounds for your baby, which features ten sounds like white noise, heartbeat and the sound of the ocean. It runs on a rechargeable battery that lasts all day.

Mate Bluetooth Tracker

Built for attaching things like keys and backpacks via a key ring, it connects to your phone through Bluetooth for easy tracking. You don’t necessarily have to be close to whatever you’ve lost to find it; even when you’re out of Bluetooth range, you can open the accompanying app to see where on a map your thing is.

Silent Electric Coffee Grinder(研磨机)

It is an electric coffee grinder, perfect for whoever loves delicious coffee without all the noise. This wonderful device helps cut down on noise, so let this machine g rind coffee beans without waking everyone up in the house.

【推荐1】In February 2021, the government of Vietnam released a draft of the country’s latest national power development plan (PDP 8) for 2021 to 2030. The draft PDP 8 expands wind and solar capacity and improves grid (输电网) infrastructure to ensure that the stable operation with a higher share of renewable energy.

Vietnam increasingly relies on coal imports because coal-fired power plants have been used to meet the rapidly increasing electricity demand. More than half of Vietnam’s electricity generation came from coal in 2020. The country also relies heavily on hydroeletric generation (水利发电) and is home to a number of large rivers. However, hydro’s reliability is affected by droughts and water shortages. Non-hydro renewable sources, such as wind and solar, made up 5% of Vietnam’s electricity generation in 2020.

Expanding non-hydro renewable capacity will likely help Vietnam rely less on coal,reduce carbon emissions (排放), and increases electricity generating capacity. With its strong emphasis on renewables, the draft PDP 8 is quite different from previous plans, which rely heavily on coal,hydropower and natural gas sources.

However, Vietnam’s underdeveloped grid hampers (阻碍) these capacity additions. Some of the country’s transmission lines are operating at a full load or are overloaded, especially in the region where solar capacity in concentrated. Electricity producers have reduced generation from renewables because of grid limitations. The country needs new transmission and distribution infrastructure to accommodate capacity additions and transmit electricity to where it is needed.

One major grid development underway is a 461-mile transmission line extension with three 500-kilovolt transmission lines. These transmission lines will connect nine cities and provinces across central and southern Vietnam.

【推荐2】Food waste contributes to ever-growing landfills (垃圾堆).    1     If you want to help the environment in your own way, you can start by reducing, or better yet, completely erasing food waste in your home. To give you an idea of where to start, here are some tips:

Don’t buy too much food whenever you go grocery shopping.    2     However, if your family cannot eat all the food before it goes bad, then it just adds to food waste. Taking several short grocery shopping trips every week instead of one long trip may help keep you from buying too much food, thereby cutting back on food waste.

Always make a shopping list.    3     That’s because you already know what things you need. Moreover, a list will prevent you from buying food items that you already have at home, which can help reduce the amount of potential food waste.

    4     For meats, you have to keep them in the freezer while fruits and vegetables should be stored in the crisper compartment (保鲜室). Although these tips may seem simple, they can help greatly reduce the amount of food waste that your family produces.

Use the “First-In-First-Out” method. For example, placing the newly bought foods at the back of the fridge or cupboard will encourage people to use the ones that are in the front row. This will ensure that you know what you have and reduce food waste.     5    

【推荐3】An Italian firm has invented what seems to be the perfect tool for stopping plastic waste from reaching the ocean through a river.

They had to check a lot of boxes. The device had to allow boats to pass without effort, while being able to run 24/7 with no impact on the river ecosystem. The result is River Cleaning, a 100% low-cost and low-impact solution.

Anchored (固定) to the bed at the bottom of the river, River Cleaning is made up of a series of floating devices, positioned diagonally (对角线地) on the course of the river; thus positioned, they can collect incoming plastic waste and transport it to the river bank for storage. Passing boats need only go straight through them at a low speed, after which their anchor lines will pull them back into place.

The River Cleaning system collects energy directly from the river current. It does not produce any type of waste. It is designed to have zero impact on the ecosystem. It only does good!

They can be adjusted to collect different kinds of waste, such as tiny particles (微粒), larger items like plastic bottles, and even oil, and some studies have shown River Cleaning can collect 85% of all waste passing by them.

Most people know of the scope of plastic pollution in the ocean, but it’s not as common to know that much of this waste comes from rivers — 80%, at least. Most of that 80% comes from just 100 of the world’s largest waterways. Running through big cities like Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok, the rivers funnel (使流经狭窄空间) waste into global ocean currents that lead plastic to clump together (聚集) in areas of the high seas.

River Cleaning became the first product of its kind to demonstrate that the system preserves the river environment while respecting the well-being of native species.