The eighth wonder of the world.
#waste
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The Japanese government is considering requiring handheld fans to be recycled, in the wake of a host of fires caused by rechargeable electric devices during disposal work. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/13/japan/recycling-handheld-fans/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #recycling #waste #meti #batteries
The Japan Times · Japan may make recycling handheld fans mandatory
McDonald’s Japan has issued an apology following a weekend frenzy in which many bought its Happy Meals in bulk to get their hands on limited-edition Pokemon trading cards, only to discard the food afterward. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/12/companies/mcdonalds-pokemon-apology/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #mcdonald039s #pokemon #socialmedia #waste #food
The Japan Times · McDonald’s Japan apologizes over frenzy linked to Pokemon card promotion
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The fact that the CBC wasted taxpayer money paying lawyers to send an obviously invalid trademark nastygram is a scandal of its own.
*Nobody* with the slightest hint of trademark knowledge would think this was actionable.
Can we take the cost of the lawyers out of the CBC executives' bonuses?
Covid cash for yachts, swingers’ club fuels Polish opposition attack on Tusk – POLITICO https://www.byteseu.com/1275783/ #Crisis #Data #DonaldTusk #Elections #JarosławKaczyński #KarolNawrocki #Mayors #MEPs #NationalRecoveryPlans #Parliament #Poland #PolishPolitics #RafalTrzaskowski #Restaurant #tourism #Transparency #Waste
BigTech uses open source if it increases their profit but they sabotage the philosophy behind it 
https://anonsys.net/display/bf69967c-4568-9943-dae1-b2d347263856
anonsys.netBigTech uses open source if it increases their profit but they sabotage the philosophy behind it 🤬Yet the #philosophy behind open source would be a way to save our #civilization in the face of increasingly worsening #crises. We need durable #software and ...
Talks on forging a landmark treaty to combat the scourge of plastic pollution were stumbling Saturday, with progress slow and countries wildly at odds on how far the proposed agreement should go. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/08/10/sustainability/plastic-talks-failing/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #sustainability #plastic #pollution #waste #recycling #un
The Japan Times · Momentum sagging at U.N. plastic pollution treaty talks
Design Milk : Roc H Biel Turns Wood Dust Into Column-Inspired Furniture https://design-milk.com/roc-h-biel-turns-wood-dust-into-column-inspired-furniture/ #HomeFurnishings #homefurnishings #sustainability #wastematerial #sustainable #3Dprinting #3Dprinted #furniture #RocHBiel #wooddust #offcuts #seating #chairs #chair #desks #table #waste #Main #desk
Design Milk · Roc H Biel Turns Wood Dust Into Column-Inspired FurnitureDust Order, by Roc H Biel, transforms wood dust – a common waste byproduct – into refined, sculptural objects inspired by ancient columns.
So the US military is buying Cybertrucks... For target practice 
we still think it's #waste #fraud and #abuse, but it's also kinda hilarious. And they're only buying two, so it's not gonna put a dent in Elon's problem #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall
Discard Anthropology (A free, 89-minute podcast from 2022)
Tags: #Nyc #PublicHealth #Things #Labor #Waste #World #News
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/av/discard-anthropology_nagle-robin
The Open Buddhist University · Discard Anthropologythe sanitation department is the most important workforce in the city of New York
Strong renewable demand for Landia pumps and mixers in Estonia https://www.byteseu.com/1261244/ #BiogasPumpsEstonia #CustomPumpAndMixerSolutionsForEstonianBiogas #Estonia #ImpactOfLandiaMixersOnBiogasYields #LandiaMixers #LandiaPumps #RenewableDemandEstonia #RenewableProjectsInEstonia #WasteToEnergyGrowthInEstonia #Waste‑to‑EnergyEquipment #WhyEstoniaSeesHighDemandForLandiaPumps
Thanks for the waste Elon!
Research quantified in the here and now found that in just six months of operation, DOGE wasted more than $21 billion. https://www.rawstory.com/doge-2673797223/ #Musk #DOGE #Waste #Fail #Efficiency #USGov
What is really happening with Radiant Nuclear? https://www.byteseu.com/1259423/ #DryCaskStorage #Energy #EnergySources #EnergyTechnology #FormsOfEnergy #IonizingRadiation #Nuclear #NuclearChemistry #NuclearEnergy #NuclearFuel #NuclearPhysics #NuclearPower #NuclearReactor #NuclearTechnology #Power(physics) #RadioactiveWaste #radioactivity #SpentNuclearFuel #SustainableTechnologies #uranium #Waste #YuccaMountainNuclearWasteRepository
The #DougFord administration has had no real capital improvement/investment plan for the Province since at least 2019, instead relying on LOBBYISTS, who are only interested in profits, to give them ideas via an online portal where they can submit unsolicited plans to siphon away your tax dollars!
https://globalnews.ca/news/11315431/highway-401-tunnel-sparked-private-bids/
The #Conservative Doug Ford admin just wants power for powers sake, they don't have any intention of bettering the lives of Ontarian's!
Doug wants to spend billions of dollars to build a tunnel beneath the 401, already the widest highway in North America! If adding more lanes worked the 401 wouldn't be clogged!
Just because the US is economically burning we cannot let our leaders run amok!
Like Mike Harris before him, Doug Ford is inflicting damage on our province that will take multiple generations to fix! We still bear the scars of Harris! He must be stopped!
Global News · Ford government started studying Hwy. 401 tunnel after private-sector bids: docs
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#UnitedNations #Environment Programme Executive Director Inger Andersen said the issues are complex but the crisis is “really spiraling” & there’s a narrow pathway to a #treaty. She said many countries agree on redesigning #plastic products to be #recycled & improving #waste management, for example.
Between 19 million & 23 million tons of plastic waste leak into #AquaticEcosystems annually, that could jump 50% by 2040 without urgent action, according to the #UN.
https://www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk/
"Our work is creating a wave of change across Sussex by supporting and inspiring people to reduce their environmental impact through shopping more sustainably, reducing waste, recycling single-use plastics and repairing rather than buying new."
#SolarPunkSunday#Sussex #Community #ReduceRepairReuseRecycle #Waste #Recycling #Plastic #Repair #Reuse #RepairReuseRecycle #Sustainability
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Because I agree but refuse to boost toots with shortened URLs (aka Link Detours) in them. And adding hashtags is a good idea for these kinds of toots.
Greenpeace International (@greenpeace) should have written in https://mastodon.social/@greenpeace/114963789565925534:
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They knew.
They lied.
Plastic producers have known for more than 30 years that RECYCLING is NOT an economically or technically feasible plastic waste management solution.
Take action >> https://www.greenpeace.org/international/act/lets-end-the-age-of-plastic/
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https://www.europesays.com/2297333/ Elon Musk’s DOGE Burned Through $21.7 Billion of Taxpayer Cash #DepartmentOfGovernmentEfficiency #doge #DonaldTrump #ElonMusk #GovernmentSpending #Musk #waste
Negotiators will take another stab at reaching a global pact on plastic pollution at talks opening Tuesday in Geneva but they face deep divisions over how to tackle the health and ecological hazard. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/08/02/sustainability/plastic-waste-treaty-talks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #sustainability #plastic #waste #recycling #pfas
The Japan Times · Efforts set to resume to reach plastic pollution pact
"Researchers have come up with a cheap and efficient way to use sunlight to recover ammonia, the main ingredient in nitrogen fertilizer, from wastewater. The new setup, described this week in Nature Sustainability, could offer farmers a cheaper source of plant nutrients while also helping clean up farm runoff and industrial wastewater."
https://www.science.org/content/article/simple-solar-device-extracts-ammonia-wastewater