The EU targets clothes and furniture in a crackdown on wasteful consumerism.
Textiles, furniture, tires and mattresses will be subject to much stricter design standards to ensure they last longer, as the EU aims to stamp out wasteful consumption, the European Commission confirmed on Wednesday.
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
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
Overheard: I can't buy tiny jars for my small batch honey because of the inflation slash tariffs etc.
Me: 
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
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.)
Tuesday May 6 
18:30 London time
ZOOM only with #ArbaBekteshi
'Romani and Egyptians in Albania's Informal Recycling Economy'
Arba writes:'The recycling work of Romani and Egyptians in Albania provides a window into the lives of the estimated 20 - 56 million waste pickers globally. These informal workers are responsible for more than half of plastic recycling globally, helping to curb greenhouse gases and reduce plastic pollution in oceans. Yet in most countries, these essential workers operate in legal gray areas, and in some places, like Albania, their labor is illegal. At present, only 10 - 18% of Albania’s municipal waste is collected for recycling.
'This reality prompts the need for a reimagining of waste. By framing garbage as a commons, societies can reconsider our collective sense of responsibility toward waste and the vulnerable communities who process and recycle trash. Forming new shared approaches to trash disposal and recycling could inform equitable and sustainable waste management policies worldwide.'
Arba Bekteshi is an urban anthropologist, cultural researcher, and artist. Her work focuses on changing urban landscapes, negotiations of public and private spaces, citizen agency, and understandings of immanence in documentary film. Bekteshi uses multimodal and sensory ethnography, psychogeography, cartography, and other forms of arts-based research to engage with the ethnographic field. She holds an M.A. in the anthropology of development and social transformation from the University of Sussex.
This is ZOOM only, ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak.
Everybody welcome.
Microsoft 14 października kończy wsparcie dla Windows 10 i namawia właścicieli około 240 milionów urządzeń, by je recyklingowali (wyrzucili?) i kupili nowe lapki czy pecetki. Nie da się zaktualizować do Windows 11 więc do kosza ...
No nie :)
Będzie wysyp fajnych maszyn dla Linuksa. Nie wyrzucaj, reinstaluj i używaj dalej.
To pójście ekosystemu Windows w stronę ekosystemu Androida. Producenci nie dostarczają nowej wersji OS, więc musisz kupić nowy telefon.
Jakimś dziwnym sposobem autorzy innych dystrybucji Android potrafią dostarczyć na te telefony nowe wersje. Przykładem LineageOs i wiele jego pochodnych, w tym mój ulubiony /e/Os.
Microsoft pozazdrościł producentom telefonów i próbuje tego samego z pecetami. Wyrzucić 3-letni fajny sprzęt i kupić nowy? Niedoczekanie.
Pamiętaj, kilkuletnie maszyny, czy to telefon, laptop czy blaszak, świetnie działają, można je naprawić, rozbudować, wymienić baterie, dodać ram czy szybszy dysk. Czy przeinstalować system operacyjny.
Sam na co dzień pracuję na laptopie, który ma ładnych kilka lat, dołożoną pamięć, nowy dysk, stację dokującą i 2 dodatkowe monitory. To samo telefony i tablety (mam ich kilka, ze względu na pracę). Drugi, zapasowy ThinkPad jest jeszcze starszy i świetnie działa (oba na linuksie). Podobnie serwer w domowym labie to starsza, świetna maszyna.
Nie daj się robić w balona.
Poczytasz o działaniach MS m. in. tu:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/04/05/microsoft-warns-240-million-windows-users-stop-using-your-pc/
Earth's Storage Of Water In Soil, Lakes And Rivers Is Dwindling - And It's Especially Bad For Farming
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https://phys.org/news/2025-03-earth-storage-soil-lakes-rivers.html <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adq6529 <-- shared paper
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#water #hydrology #waterresources #global #management #watersecurity #soil #lake #river #snow #groundwater #agriculture #sealevelerise #SLR #climatechange #farming #overuse #waste #moisture #soilmoisture #ecology #ecosystems #storage #model #modeling #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #rainfall #drought #consistency #wateruse #crop #plant #vegetation #irrigation #foodsecurity #evapotranspiration #ET #surfacewater #flux #GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #waterstorage #depletion
From burger wrappers to masks, bird nests tell story of throwaway culture https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/04/from-burger-wrappers-masks-bird-nests-story-throwaway-culture #Animalbehaviour #Environment #Netherlands #Pollution #Worldnews #Plastics #Wildlife #Animals #Biology #Science #Europe #Birds #Waste
Europe produces 5 tons of #waste per capita each year and exports a significant portion of it for other countries to handle. Can we reduce, reuse, and recycle our way out of this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00KgO9gVjAU
am tabor 1020 bekam die aufpolierung zB gestern -27 geäscherte zigarettenfilter &heute -2 hundehinterlassenschaften, papierzetteln/verpackungsecken und plastik
makeover von natur, auch wenn es um baumscheiben oder öffentl. nachbarschaftsgärten mit vereinen ginge
garteln in wien #english
https://www.garteln-in-wien.at/en/fruit-in-public-spaces/
urban gardening statt guerilla garden...
https://www.garteln-in-wien.at/weitere-garteninitiativen/
There was so much garbage in this place.... - videos.trom.tf/w/1fQsmvtKDTJaJ…
In this part of Spain (Fuencaliente, Portollano) we found so much trash it is incredible. Such a shame to see this waste. We tried to clean this park a bit but....
@RandallHawes Carney has been *heavily* promoting Public/Private Partnerships. We all know how those work out.
#scam #corruption #waste
The #Trump Admin Has Spent $40 Million to Jail About 400 Migrants at #Guantánamo
The disclosure of the tab so far came after a visit by 5 senators to the offshore operation, who condemned it as a #waste of resources.
#hypocrisy #GovernmentSpending #DOGE #USpol #law #immigration
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/us/politics/migrants-guantanamo-costs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=10599E2C-BA8F-4BB4-B587-AD29355EFCA4
"The burden of disposability is shifted away from the producer and onto the consumer through taxes and costs to governments in cleaning up the damage that this creates."
System Failures: #PlannedObsolescence and Enforced #Disposability
I'll be glad the day they stop holding the Olympics, a massive waste of money and bribery.
Greg Cocks 
