2% of the household batteries in the UK are collected for recycling. Councils involved need to step up their efforts to reach their target which is 25% by 2012 and 45% by 2016.
Only 50% of Nairobi's water supply actually reaches the customer!The other half is lost through leakages and illegal connections
For every 2000 pounds of paper (1 ton) recycled, we save 7,000 gallons of pure water.
Pesticide usage worldwide has quadrupled over the last 40 years, from an average of 0.5 Kg per hectare in 1961 To 2kg per hectare in 2004!
It is estimated that up to 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year, more than one million per minute.*
The snow and ice in The Eastern Himalayas have shrunk by an astonishing 30% since the 1970s!
Do numbers speak to you better than words? Does math parallel religion in your head? Does the all pervasive power and beauty of the truth that this language speaks never cease to amaze you? Does the lack of a Nobel prize not deter your passion in the least?
Well here's your chance to voice out your affirmation and stand testimonial for the same... Mathemagic is here for you..
1. This is an individual event. 2. Participants would take a written prelims which would feature quants, logical reasoning and elementary math. 3. Qualifying participants will face a panel of mathematicians who would test their profoundness and domain based knowledge in math. 4. Domains would be given for the finalists to choose from as their area of strength on a relative basis... 5. The panel's decision about participant performance would be final and binding...
