2020年3月8日 · I expect there is also a pragmatic element. Toilet paper is a product that takes a lot of space, and is therefore not something people have a lot of under normal circumstances. A lot of people likely also use toilet paper as a tissue, and therefore imagine themselves needing a lot if they have the flu or a flu-like illness.

Scenes of toilet paper and noodles flying off the shelves were so laughable as to have become the subject of many an internet meme. But other shortages – those of truly critical life-saving goods – were no laughing matter.

2021年7月30日 · The latter goes far beyond the toilet paper supply issue experienced early in the pandemic. It expands to include a whole range of products like lumber and other building materials, tools, foodstuffs, seeds, furniture, cleaning supplies, aluminum cans, jars, pools and pool equipment, chemicals, bicycles, camping gear, household appliances and ...

2020年4月3日 · The same hoarding impulse to take care of your own, which has led to unnecessarily empty toilet paper shelves all over the world, may exacerbate a far more serious shortage: getting ventilators to the people who need them.

2020年4月2日 · Demonstrating this shared inheritance, the same brain areas are active when people decide to take home toilet paper, bottled water or granola bars, as when rats store lab chow under their bedding – the orbitofrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens, regions that generally help organize goals and motivations to satisfy needs and desires.

2019年1月29日 · India has a serious shortage of functioning sewage treatment plants. There are an estimated 800 treatment plants across the country, and most of them operate at around 30% capacity. The government is doing work in this area, sanctioning public-private partnerships for the construction of new sewage treatment plants along the highly populated ...

2022年9月27日 · Logs for heat and pellets for fuel are not the only wood products being impacted by geopolitics. The cost of toilet paper has spiralled in many places, as prices for the energy needed to cook up the required wood pulp have increased; one toilet paper maker in Germany has started trying to use coffee grounds as a pulp alternative.

2021年5月12日 · The shortage is expected to take as much as a $4 billion bite out of Apple’s quarterly sales due to supply constraints on iPads and Macs, and Samsung cited a “serious imbalance” in global supply and demand for chips while warning it might delay the launch of …

2024年12月20日 · The World Economic Forum's Energy Transition Index (ETI), which benchmarks 120 countries on their current energy system performance, and on the readiness of their enabling environment, has found that 107 out of 120 countries have demonstrated progress in their energy transition journey over the past decade.

2022年1月14日 · In certain industries, the failure of critical links in the supply chain has led to new alliances and co-development ventures between original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and suppliers. Alarmed by the shortage of semiconductors, for instance, Ford and General Motors formed strategic agreements with chipmakers.