Winnipeggers urged to take part in giveaway, compost and yard waste initiatives
With spring weather here to stay, Winnipeg says it's encouraging residents to 'think sustainably' by participating in the upcoming spring giveaway weekend and compost initiative,
#environment #community #waste #Winnipeg #Politics #CityofWinnipeg
https://globalnews.ca/news/11148986/winnipeg-spring-giveaway-compost-waste/
Winnipeggers urged to take part in giveaway, compost and yard waste initiatives
With spring weather here to stay, Winnipeg says it's encouraging residents to 'think sustainably' by participating in the upcoming spring giveaway weekend and compost initiative,
#environment #community #waste #Winnipeg #Politics #CityofWinnipeg
https://globalnews.ca/news/11148986/winnipeg-spring-giveaway-compost-waste/
This will make you think…and probably feel really guilty
#Food #Waste #Environment #Canada
https://gem.cbc.ca/just-eat-it-a-food-waste-story
Solarpunk Degrowth. A future with more because of less waste.
AI-powered robots help tackle Europe’s growing e-waste problem https://www.byteseu.com/942020/ #ArtificialIntelligence #Europe #EuropeanUnion #Waste
Quebec recycler shows what happens to scrap appliances left on the curb
A Chelsea, Que., woman is on a mission to keep recyclable appliances and material out of the landfill.
#recycling #waste #appliances #Quebec #Chelsea #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-chelsea-trash-collector-1.7511967?cmp=rss
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.
The Environment Ministry is urging people to dispose of lithium-ion batteries properly as they can catch fire when mixed with other waste under certain conditions. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/17/japan/japan-lithium-ion-battery-proper-disposal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #batteries #waste #environmentministry
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.)
