In this aerial shot, you can just make out the river amidst all of the trash. Can you spot it? It’s the light brown splotch at top center.
Thermoelectric generators probably won’t eliminate the charger for your Apple Watch, but for smaller, screenless wearables, the heat constantly escaping from your skin could fundamentally change how we power our devices.
Swifties: You can do better.
Only about 5% of plastic in the U.S. actually gets recycled.
An aerial shot of the garbage. Photo: Armin Durgut (AP) 
