Good morning and welcome to Kid News. I'm Tori. It's Tuesday, August 31st, 2021.

And we begin with how the lint from your sports uniform could be turned from pollution into energy.

A lot of our clothes are made with synthetic materials like polyester and nylon.

And that's good because it's cheap to produce, last for a long time, and is comfortable to wear.

But the fabric is made from petroleum, which is a major downside.

When the clothing is washed, it produces tiny strands, what we call lint, and that's a big contributor to plastic pollution.

But some European scientists have found a way to recycle that lint and turn it into energy.

Their findings published in Science of the Total Environment showed that by heating the lint without oxygen,

the microfibers break down into oil, gas, and charcoal.

The team even suggested setting up collection points. Similar to the system where people return soda cans and bottles in exchange for money.

But don't start saving the lint from your dryer yet. A lot more research needs to be done before this experiment becomes a reality.

The storm system that was Hurricane Ida is steadily weakening as it moves inland.

But in its wake, it left over a million customers without power in Louisiana.

And a lot of down trees, flooded roads, and debris scattered everywhere.

Ida was so strong when it blew ashore Sunday that it actually caused the Mississippi River to briefly flow backwards.

Now over 1600 teams are spread out across the region, assessing the damage and helping to clean up.

Ida was downgraded to a tropical depression yesterday afternoon as it moved northeast, still bringing a lot of rain and wind.

Its projected path has it over northern Alabama and across Tennessee today.

America's longest war has officially come to an end. Today was the deadline for the U.S. and its allies to leave Afghanistan.

It's part of an agreement that was signed last year with a Taliban, the military group that mostly controls the country right now, which had refused to extend the date.

Turns out that wasn't needed as the last American plane actually flew out yesterday, ending 20 years of occupation.

There had been a big scramble to get U.S. citizens and allies out of there in the last two weeks as the situation became more unstable.

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