Interesting slice of life piece here, but also a bit more. Korea has a serious attitude toward food waste (homes in my area are required to pay for specific bags to dispose of excess food and table scraps.) So photos of all these nearly full plates of uneaten bread are a shock to the conscience for many
I got a lens adaptor from Ebay to test a lens and it was crap, didn't fit properly. So I got a return accepted by the seller. Lovely, Ebay supplied me a free label to post it back, I posted it back and I thyen I got my money back. Today the post arrived and I got the adaptor back. The seller refused to accxept it. I'm not suprised it was crap.
#Ebay #Stupid #Waste
All-you-can-eat places are exempt from Spain’s new legal requirement for restaurants to provide boxes so customers can take away uneaten food. But wouldn’t it be amazing if they weren’t… 
Dominic had a blast talking about Spain’s new anti-food waste law and much more with guest-host Nina Lamparski, our favourite Luxembourgish export. Check out the episode wherever you usually find us
The All-Female Blue Origin Space Flight Was Peak Girlboss Nonsense
Sweden drowns in discarded fast fashion items | National https://www.byteseu.com/920757/ #clothing #economy #EconomyAndTheEnvironment #environment #EnvironmentalIssues #FastFashion #HumanImpactOnTheEnvironment #Manufacturing #Materials #NaturalEnvironment #partners/afp #Pollution #Recycling #Reuse #SocietalCollapse #SustainabilityAndEnvironmentalManagement #SustainableDevelopment #Sweden #textile #TextileRecycling #Waste #WasteManagement
Pyrolysis of plastic waste for sustainable energy Recovery: Technological advancements and environmental impacts
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0196890425000342
The global plastic waste crisis requires innovative solutions, and pyrolysis has emerged as a promising technology. Plastic -> Diesel + Hydrogen Gas + a lump of carbon.
Ghana is drowning in the discarded remnants of FAST FASHION.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjQY101gONM
500,000 ITEMS of clothing waste are dumped WEEKLY in Accra, Ghana. The Global North’s fashion addiction is fueling an environmental disaster.
this may help (waste gasifier): https://steemhunt.com/tag/energy/@badmusgreene/wastebot-turns-trash-into-fuel-gas-and-electric-power
Sie erzählten mir, sie müssten die Getrieberollen der Rolltreppe von Zigarettenstummeln befreien. Im Bahnhof sei eigentlich Rauchverbot. 
Ich kommentiere das nicht weiter.
Sweden drowns in discarded fast fashion items https://phys.org/news/2025-04-sweden-discarded-fast-fashion-items.html
BBC: Everyone’s jumping on the AI doll trend – but what are the concerns?. “It’s part of a new trend where people use generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT and Copilot to re-package themselves – literally – as pocket-sized dolls and action figures. It has taken off online, with brands and influencers dabbling in creating their mini-me. But some are urging people to steer […]
#India wants to tackle its mounting e-#waste problem. Global electronics companies say the cost is too high.
Daikin, Hitachi and Samsung are among manufacturers alarmed by new Indian government rules that require them to pay significantly more to recycle air conditioners, refrigerators, TVs and other appliances, court papers and lobbying letters show.
From Daikin to Samsung, companies fight Modi over #ewaste policy | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/daikin-samsung-companies-fight-modi-over-e-waste-policy-2025-04-11/
I'm watching TVO right now. There's an interesting film called "This Film is Garbage!". It's about issues surrounding our household waste. Quite interesting. Informative and also light hearted.
https://www.tvo.org/video/documentaries/this-film-is-garbage-0
Overheard: I can't buy tiny jars for my small batch honey because of the inflation slash tariffs etc.
Me: 
Five deep changes urgently needed for a sustainable world and how to achieve them: UN report https://phys.org/news/2025-04-deep-urgently-sustainable-world.html
I'm convinced that the real innovation and the creativity necessary to survive the impending catastrophe will never come from places like Silicon Valley. It doesn't shine and it doesn't have world design conferences. It will come instead from the alleys of marketplaces, mostly (but not only) in the Global South.
India's repair and engineering culture, and Frankestein laptops
via @theverge
https://www.theverge.com/tech/639126/india-frankenstein-laptops
I have spent the last 2 years focusing on waste management, especially that of Electronic Waste—from the mining of the resources to the discarding of the commodities, and while we are well aware of the pattern of disparity between the over-consumption in the Global North and overproduction in the Global Majority parts of the world, the problems largely still exists. Who to blame, somebody is surely making profits from this trade deal.
Anthropocene is a (Poubelle)ocene.
Certain headlines, like the one below, always make me feel disgusted, knowing that the patterns of dreadful and atrocious colonial practices are still prevalent. I am so perplexed as to what design thinking hat to put on or what circular economy principles to explain the exporting of trash to their previous colonies.
Not only that, but in a recent survey commissioned by the Repair Campaign (https://repaircampaign.org/), more than 2,000 people in the UK found that 85% did not know that more than 3 million people had been forcibly shipped from Africa to the Caribbean by British enslavers. It also found 89% were unaware British merchants had enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years.
As Dr. Shashi Tharoor has mentioned various times, "And LOOT, a Hindi word which the Britishers took into their dictionaries as well as their habit" (Link below of the talk of Dr. Shashi Tharoor - Looking Back at the British Raj in India at the University of Edinburgh)
Sources -
1. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c14jy2dd8jeo
2. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/25/most-britons-do-not-know-scale-of-uks-involvement-in-slavery-survey-finds?utm_source=instagram&utm_campaign=ig_gu
3. https://youtu.be/OB5ykS-_-CI?si=iczPAnaOR5j6E-K-&t=224
In a shocking twist, The Verge discovers that Indians have figured out how to *gasp* repair things instead of throwing them away. 
Meanwhile, the rest of the world continues its heroic fight to keep landfills fully stocked. 
https://www.theverge.com/tech/639126/india-frankenstein-laptops #repairculture #sustainability #innovation #waste #reduction #landfillissues #HackerNews #ngated
Enshitification in retail.
The same coffee isle before single-use plastic Keurig coffee ‘convenience’ and after.
If you’re using Keurig you don’t give a fuck about the planet.
As per #alttext on pic-2, energy- and processing-wise, far more package than product.
Note as well how competition has taken a backseat to coddling brand giants looking to destroy the competitive market.
(Hello Tim’s: seen.)
