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"Frugal habits, not quick fixes, key to tackling global food waste, study finds"
#Food #FoodWaste
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Frugal habits, not quick fixes, key to tackling global food waste, study finds
Household food waste, a focus of government targets, supermarket campaigns and consumer nudges, is best reduced by fostering lasting habits of frugality and not short-term interventions, according to new research by the University of Portsmouth.

⛽ Yale Scientists Crack the Code on Turning Plastic Waste Into Fuel
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Yale-Scientists-Crack-the-Code-on-Turning-Plastic-Waste-Into-Fuel.html

Yale Scientists Crack the Code on Turning Plastic Waste Into Fuel
Yale scientists have developed a catalyst-free, energy-efficient pyrolysis reactor that converts plastic waste into usable fuel with unprecedented efficiency.

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Thundercat:
🎵 I Wish I Didn’t Waste Your Time (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #Thundercat
https://thundercat.bandcamp.com/album/i-wish-i-didn-t-waste-your-time
https://open.spotify.com/track/356A6LLhntlbIxP8h0Lf3Q

Mailbag: Why waste offensive talent? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-why-waste-offensive-talent

This is near where I live and I'm livid about the sheer waste of money to create something so disruptive to both animals and humans. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/01/arizona-border-wall-san-rafael-valley

Inside India's growing ~$1.5B e-waste recycling industry, about 95% of workers are employed informally, doing dangerous, toxic, and lawless work for meager pay (Yashraj Sharma/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/india-e-waste-recycling-electronics/

Inside India’s billion-dollar e-waste empire
The informal recycling economy is turning global e-waste into profit — at a steep human and environmental cost.

Why there is no tsunami of waste #EV batteries. And look at the EV share in Ukraine 🇺🇦. Why it is important to get V2G/V2L working for older EVs right now.

A few things have progressed since my studies, but #ewaste recycling im #India calls for the dexterity of informal businesses. The formal efforts keep on adding harm.
Rest of The World reports on gov pressure and producer protest

Inside India’s billion-dollar e-waste empire
The informal recycling economy is turning global e-waste into profit — at a steep human and environmental cost.

"The UK’s food waste crisis – and how to fix it"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #FoodWaste

"We're bringing them together to hear the views of America's most famous draft dodger, Donald Trump and this frat boy who's spent a few years in the military, but whose life after that in veterans' organizations and everything else was marred by scandal and mismanagement"
'Offends them': Analyst warns top military brass is seething over Hegseth 'waste of time' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth-2674106548/

Before we had kids, we had a crappy electric stove (and after that, a less crappy but still crappy gas stove) that wasted a bunch of heat. It heats the coil, then the pan, then whatever you cooked. I'd fry an egg, add cheese and fake deli meat, and then turn off the stove and put it all on a tortilla in the pan; the residual heat, rather than being wasted, would continue melting the cheese as well as making the tortilla crispy (with upturned edges). Less waste heat, and delicious.

"In a world of limited capital and urgent climate deadlines, the prudent course is to double down on the technologies that are delivering now and keep nuclear in a narrow test lane with clear stop rules."
#kernenergie

Small Modular Reactors and the Big Questions of Cost & Waste - CleanTechnica
New research challenges SMR promises, finding diseconomies of scale, cost overruns, and added nuclear waste streams.

Entropy After $\langle \texttt{/Think} \rangle$ for reasoning model early exiting
Xi Wang, James McInerney, Lequn Wang, Nathan Kallus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26522 https://…

Entropy After $\langle \texttt{/Think} \rangle$ for reasoning model early exiting
Large reasoning models show improved performance with longer chains of thought. However, recent work has highlighted (qualitatively) their tendency to overthink, continuing to revise answers even after reaching the correct solution. We quantitatively confirm this inefficiency by tracking Pass@1 for answers averaged over a large number of rollouts and find that the model often begins to always produce the correct answer early in the reasoning, making extra reasoning a waste of tokens. To detect …

Our piece now available at resilience.org too:
The Macavity of Degrowth – Waste, the Empire that isn’t there… - resilience
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-09-22/the-macavity-of-degrowth-waste-the-empire-that-isnt-there/

The Macavity of Degrowth – Waste, the Empire that isn’t there…
If a theoretical economy relies on the exchange of intended things, a profitable economy relies on the waste produced by the production, distribution and sale of those things.

Turning waste into wealth: Biochar machine offers affordable carbon capture for farmers, boosting crop yields and fighting climate change. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Report Says Factory Farming is the World’s Biggest Cause of Food Waste https://vegconomist.com/sustainability-environment/report-factory-farming-worlds-biggest-cause-food-waste/

Report Says Factory Farming is the World's Biggest Cause of Food Waste - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
A new report by Compassion in World Farming has found that an additional two billion people per year could be fed if grain were not used to feed

"Organised crime making millions from illegal waste dumping in UK, says committee"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment

CoTune: Co-evolutionary Configuration Tuning
Gangda Xiong, Tao Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24694 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.24694

CoTune: Co-evolutionary Configuration Tuning
To automatically tune configurations for the best possible system performance (e.g., runtime or throughput), much work has been focused on designing intelligent heuristics in a tuner. However, existing tuner designs have mostly ignored the presence of complex performance requirements (e.g., the latency shall ideally be 2 seconds), but simply assume that better performance is always more preferred. This would not only waste valuable information in a requirement but might also consume extensive r…

First mental image I had after reading about Kushner and some Saudi group buying EA was that fascist waste of carbon Jared Kushner sitting in some room when he was younger in mommy and daddy's mansion playing whatever stupid fuckin EA game he must've been into. What a ghoulish, pathetic little dork 😂

Dropping the penny is one thing, but like everything this moronic administration does is unplanned chaos.
https://fortune.com/2025/10/30/america-is-running-out-of-pennies-costing-millions/

America’s officially running out of pennies — and it’s costing retailers millions
“Let’s rip the waste out of our great nation’s budget, even if it’s a penny at a time,” President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social.

https://dsdistro.noblogs.org/post/2025/09/21/waste-magazine-issue-1/

🫥 Cameras that see the unseen promise smarter, faster recycling of everyday waste
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-cameras-unseen-smarter-faster-recycling.html

Cameras that see the unseen promise smarter, faster recycling of everyday waste
A new study uses advanced imaging technology to identify materials in municipal solid waste that can be separated for recycling or to produce energy.

Tech companies that sell hardware tend to specialize in making future e-waste.

Efficient heat-energy conversion from a non-thermal Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid
Hikaru Yamazaki, Masashi Uemura, Haruhi Tanaka, Tokuro Hata, Chaojing Lin, Takafumi Akiho, Koji Muraki, Toshimasa Fujisawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26387

Efficient heat-energy conversion from a non-thermal Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid
Energy harvesting is a technique that generates useful work from waste heat. Conventional energy harvesters acting on local thermal equilibrium states are constrained by thermodynamic limits, such as the Carnot efficiency. Quantum heat engines with non-thermal reservoirs are expected to exceed such limits. Here, we demonstrate energy harvesting from a nonthermal Tomonaga-Luttinger (TL) liquid in quantum Hall edge channels, where the non-thermal state is naturally formed due to the absence of th…

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Thundercat:
🎵 I Wish I Didn’t Waste Your Time (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #Thundercat
https://thundercat.bandcamp.com/album/i-wish-i-didn-t-waste-your-time
https://open.spotify.com/track/356A6LLhntlbIxP8h0Lf3Q

Starmer government considers leaving the #Aarhus convention. This is an international treaty signed up to by the EU and other countries in Europe, which protects the right for campaigners to bring legal claims against large infrastructure projects such as waste plants, nuclear power stations and motorways.
Starmer asks Conservative peer to write planning bill to block judicial reviews | Planni…

UBC introduces the world's first mushroom-powered waterless toilet, turning waste into compost. Sustainable design for a cleaner future. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

☲ Indonesia has a waste problem. Does China have a solution?
https://globalvoices.org/2025/08/05/indonesia-has-a-waste-problem-does-china-have-a-solution/

Indonesia has a waste problem. Does China have a solution?
Social opposition to WTE incineration is currently limited in Indonesia, as the industry is in an elementary phase, but public concerns will likely increase as the market in Indonesia grows.

Rugby star Louis Rees-Zammit says he feels his time in NFL was a waste of his talent

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/rugby-star-louis-rees-zam…

Getting right to the point...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/10/15/2348703/-Trump-s-minions-waste-millions-of-tax-dollars-on-ads-kissing-his-butt

Sonnet 030 - XXX
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone…

Endgeile Idee: Wohin mit alten Rotorenblättern von Windenergie - Anlagen? Eine niederländische Firma baut daraus Tiny Homes, Spielplätze, Lärmschutzwände und mehr: Blade–Made – Urban furniture from decommissioned windmill blades
https://blade-made.com/
> Blade–Made transforms waste into long lasting obj…

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Thundercat:
🎵 I Wish I Didn’t Waste Your Time (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #Thundercat
https://thundercat.bandcamp.com/album/i-wish-i-didn-t-waste-your-time
https://open.spotify.com/track/356A6LLhntlbIxP8h0Lf3Q

How about we stop producing and using plastic? This is getting absurdily ridiculous..
"Scientists have discovered that waxworm caterpillars can break down polyethylene plastic, one of the most common and persistent pollutants on Earth. These “plastivores” metabolize plastic into body fat within days, offering a striking potential solution to the global waste crisis. But there’s a twist: on a plastic-only diet, the caterpillars weaken and die quickly."
These “plastivore…

These “plastivore” caterpillars can devour a plastic bag in just 24 hours
Scientists have discovered that waxworm caterpillars can break down polyethylene plastic, one of the most common and persistent pollutants on Earth. These “plastivores” metabolize plastic into body fat within days, offering a striking potential solution to the global waste crisis. But there’s a twist: on a plastic-only diet, the caterpillars weaken and die quickly.

Green Grid: Smart Tech Meets E-Waste
Yashodip Dharmendra Jagtap, Aaditya Ganesh Bagul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08888 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08888

Green Grid: Smart Tech Meets E-Waste
Electronic waste (e-waste) is a rapidly growing global problem caused by shorter device lifecycles and rising consumption. India ranks third globally in e-waste generation, producing over 1.7 million tonnes in 2023-24, of which less than half is formally processed. To address this, we propose Green Grid, an integrated AI-powered e-waste management platform combining IoT-enabled smart collection, AI-based device classification, blockchain-based traceability, and gamified citizen engagement. The …

Crosslisted article(s) found for math.PR. https://arxiv.org/list/math.PR/new
[1/1]:
- Discovering and Analyzing Stochastic Processes to Reduce Waste in Food Retail
Anna Kalenkova, Lu Xia, Dirk Neumann

"What goes with [GDP growth] is ... ignored; growth depends on increased production and distribution, which always increase waste."
Jon Cloke in our new #ProspectsForDegrowth piece.
The Macavity of Degrowth – Waste, the Empire that isn’t there… – degrowthUK

The Macavity of Degrowth – Waste, the Empire that isn’t there…
Jon Cloke* “You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air But I tell you once and once again, Macavity’s not there!” Growth, Degrowth, Post-Growth There are so many accepted definiti…

TL;DR
Document your network!!!! And if not, keep your actions in the right order to not waste a lot of time.
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Last week I wanted to check something on my network switch and tried to open the web interface at the IP address I remembered. Unable to connect.
I was short of time as always so I put this back on my 'to-do' list.
Yesterday I had 25mins to spare... So I took a look at the internet router which maintains a list of all active network devices. Na…

Good Morning #Canada
Capitalism certainly doesn't waste an opportunity, and as entrepreneurs were trying to make Beavers extinct, they made use of every part, including the Beaver's secretions. Castoreum is a yellowish exudate from the castor sacs of mature Beavers used in combination with urine to scent mark their territory. Butt for centuries Beaver Castor Oil was used to flavour food, make perfumes more interesting, and cure every ailment known to the human race. Rumors persist about its use in many products, but it's rarely used today. I will not make a tasteless, smelly Beaver joke this morning.... you're welcome.
#CanadaIsAwesome #BeaverWeek #Eewww
https://www.vice.com/en/article/a-history-of-flavoring-food-with-beaver-butt-juice/

Low Carbon Family Holidays - Be a social superstar without 57 foreign holidays every year! Cut stress, cost, carbon and food waste. Have loads of fun! #frugal #holiday #TravellersCheck -

Low Carbon Family Holidays
Be a social superstar without 57 foreign holidays every year! Cut stress, cost, carbon and food waste. Have loads of fun! #frugal #holiday #TravellersCheck

The End of Windows 10 Support Is an E-Waste Disaster in the Making https://www.404media.co/the-end-of-windows-10-support-is-an-e-waste-disaster-in-the-making/

From David Suzuki
A report released today by the David Suzuki Foundation, "Running on Fumes: B.C. LNG’s Overhyped Promises, Risky Future and Public Costs,” shows that the #LNG industry exhibits a pattern of grand promises, under-delivery and hidden costs.
The real winners are foreign multinationals, not British Columbians. Offshored profits, few jobs, higher energy costs and ignored environm…

Silicon valley e-waste invisibility trick.
#ewaste #pollution
https://gerrymcgovern.com/silic…

PerfBench: Can Agents Resolve Real-World Performance Bugs?
Spandan Garg, Roshanak Zilouchian Moghaddam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24091 https://arxiv.org/p…

PerfBench: Can Agents Resolve Real-World Performance Bugs?
Performance bugs are inefficiencies in software that waste computational resources without causing functional failures, making them particularly challenging to detect and fix. While recent advances in Software Engineering agents have shown promise in automated bug fixing, existing benchmarks primarily focus on functional correctness and fail to evaluate agents' abilities to identify and resolve non-functional issues like performance bugs. We introduce PerfBench, a benchmark comprising 81 real-w…

Omg, this detail from CNN about the ICE hiring snafu is wild.
This seems like an HR 101 level thing to get right.
They turned a hiring bonus into something much closer to an application bonus
https://bsky.app/profile/johnpfaff.bsky.social/post/3m3vqmpk7cs2u

John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social)
Omg, this detail from CNN about the ICE hiring snafu is wild. This seems like an HR 101 level thing to get right. They turned a hiring bonus into something much closer to an application bonus. Seems like a great way to burn a ton of cash. Also? Here’s some waste for sure!

Stemmen met m'n geld: 150 kg biologische pompoen gedoneerd voor de voedselbank via #NoWasteArmy
Doe je mee? Maken we Nederland samen een stukje groener en socialer, en helpen we boeren aan een eerlijke prijs voor een eerlijk product
https://

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Ian Dury & The Blockheads:
🎵 What A Waste
#IanDury #TheBlockheads
https://open.spotify.com/track/5KEI4OrGTsimQ0b57SlLvS

Informal e-waste recycling in Pakistan: A hidden environmental crisis #Pakistan

Informal e-waste recycling in Pakistan: A hidden environmental crisis
When I began my research on electronic waste in Pakistan, I quickly realized how deeply it touches both our environment and our daily lives. We live in an age where technology evolves faster than ever—phones, laptops, and televisions are replaced at a breathtaking pace. But what happens to the old ones? For many in developing nations like mine, the answer lies in informal recycling practices.

1/2 I asked Google a question the answer to which was a list of numbers. Of course, it offered me the list of numbers at the top of the results page, uncited. This is a total waste of space because OBVIOUSLY I’m not going to quote AI-generated numbers without tracking down a source.
#genAI

Prepared a "new" mini pc for my parents. "New" in terms of, I bought a Refurbed one.
When they like it, I'll - again - disassemble the old one and put the parts on ebay... I guess. Hopefully no electronic waste will be remaining.

"Revolutionary Textile Recycling Technology Transforms Fashion Industry Waste into High-Quality Fibers"
#Fashion #Textiles #Recycling

Revolutionary Textile Recycling Technology Transforms Fashion Industry Waste into High-Quality Fibers | Happy Eco News
Textile recycling technology breakthrough removes dyes and separates fabric blends from old garments, creating high-quality recycled fibers for the first time at an industrial scale.

Smart Routing for EV Charge Point Operators in Mega Cities: Case Study of Istanbul
Onur Yenigun, Gozde Karatas Baydogmus, Kazim Yildiz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21369 https://

Smart Routing for EV Charge Point Operators in Mega Cities: Case Study of Istanbul
The rapidly increasing use of electric vehicles (EVs) has made it even more important to manage the charging infrastructure sustainably. The expansion of charging station networks, especially in large cities, creates serious logistical challenges for charging point operators (CPOs) in planning maintenance and repair activities. Inefficient field personnel management can lead to time loss, high operational costs, and resource waste. This study presents an integrated method to optimize the planni…

FUCK IT
WHAT A WASTE OF TIME
#FreeBSD #vi

What a waste of money, not to mention the ugliness of paving over the white house rose garden.
But hey, I guess El Presidente Naranja (EPN) needs some place to bury bodies.
In the same vain vein is there any truth to the rumor that EPN, after he slaps his greasy name onto the Kennedy Center, plans to rename Washington DC?
Which makes me wonder - who controls the names of the various States and of the US of A as a whole?

I don’t understand why we must spend billions of dollars and waste so much water for AI.
I just created an “AI-generated image” from the original using a few dabs of the retouch tool in the Photos app.
Might have taken a sip of water afterwards but that was it.
(Is there a word/phrase for taking a regular image and making it look like it was AI generated? There should be.)

oh no im doing it again
lemme close YouTube lmao

Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability for Viability Analysis of Constrained Waste-to-Energy Systems under Adversarial Uncertainty
Achraf Bouhmady, Othman Cherkaoui Dekkaki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11396

Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability for Viability Analysis of Constrained Waste-to-Energy Systems under Adversarial Uncertainty
This paper investigates the problem of maintaining the safe operation of Waste-to-Energy (WtE) systems under operational constraints and uncertain waste inflows. We model this as a robust viability problem, formulated as a zero-sum differential game between a control policy and an adversarial disturbance. Within a Hamilton-Jacobi framework, the viability kernel is characterized as the zero sublevel set of a value function satisfying a constrained Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation in the vi…

What can we do to protect ourselves against #chatcontrol? Politicians and governments will not solve this.They are all about #control and power. Begging them is a waste of time and dignity.
Must it be a technological change? A social one? What do we do?
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Having a studio near a piano teacher's studio makes me realise how most kids don't practice this instrument at all, just come and struggle through the same boring tunes every week.
Please don't make your children learn an instrument they don't actual enjoy playing, it's a counter-productive waste of time.
All that stuff about classical music making kids more intelligent is pure nonsense, either experimental results don't replicate or replicate just as we…

I almost missed it: A new #StarTrek film was released this year, called "Section 31".
A huge disappointment. Don't waste your time with that garbage.

ah of course the hero image on this blog post about big data streaming should feature a processing pipeline feeding a data lake
but before i worked out what they intended i thought it was a corroded waste outflow pouring into a reservoir

A new piece in our #ProspectsForDegrowth series.
The Macavity of Degrowth – Waste, the Empire that isn’t there… by Jon Cloke.
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/09/18/the-

The Macavity of Degrowth – Waste, the Empire that isn’t there…
Jon Cloke* “You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air But I tell you once and once again, Macavity’s not there!” Growth, Degrowth, Post-Growth There are so many accepted definiti…

https://witcheskitchen.com.au/spring-onion-pancakes/

Spring onion pancakes
It’s a small but very powerful change in the way you cook: start from what you have – what’s in season, what’s in excess, what’s at risk of going to waste. So, what got me thinking of this today is…

Understanding Spatial Regression Models from a Weighting Perspective in an Observational Study of Superfund Remediation
Sophie M. Woodward, Francesca Dominici, Jose R. Zubizarreta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19572

Understanding Spatial Regression Models from a Weighting Perspective in an Observational Study of Superfund Remediation
Superfund sites are locations in the United States with high levels of environmental toxicants, often resulting from industrial activity or improper waste management. Given mounting evidence linking prenatal environmental exposures to adverse birth outcomes, estimating the impact of Superfund remediation is of substantial policy relevance. A widespread approach is to fit a spatial regression, i.e., a linear regression of the outcome (e.g., birth weight) on binary treatment (e.g., indicator for …

☣️ In the Philippines, informal e-waste dismantling poses health risks
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/07/29/sustainability/philippine-e-waste-dismantle-health/
🆓

In the Philippines, informal e-waste dismantling poses health risks
Scavenging electronic waste for the nickel, aluminum and copper inside releases a toxic brew of chemicals, including lead, mercury and cadmium, into the air.

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South Africa's coal mines are leaking methane, and no one knows how much #SouthAfrica…

South Africa's coal mines are leaking methane, and no one knows how much
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas. It is released from natural sources (like wetlands) and human activities (coal mining, and oil and gas production). It is also emitted by agriculture (especially livestock and rice paddies), and decomposing waste in garbage dumps.

> … I vaguely recalled seeing 2.3.1_1 in one of my VirtualBox snapshots, …
Now I simply can not find 2.3.1_1 in quarterly or latest for 14 or 15. Looking at the date of commit 12d2f0b (Friday), I guess that the bootstrap was from local FreeBSD-15.0-BETA3-amd64-dvd1.iso (not online).
Digging online was not a waste of time, I stumbled into something surprising:

#Soziologie time, auf zum #DGS2025 Kongress! Ich hoffe, die Schiene hält, dann wird im waste-Panel aufgeräumt 🙌

The Macavity of Degrowth – Waste, the Empire that isn’t there…
Jon Cloke* “You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air But I tell you once and once again, Macavity’s not there!” Growth, Degrowth, Post-Growth There are so many accepted definitions of economic growth that it’s almost a monad, “a most basic substance” that goes without question. In one recent example, Max Roser (2021) defines growth as “an increase in the quantity and quality of the…

The Macavity of Degrowth – Waste, the Empire that isn’t there…
Jon Cloke* “You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air But I tell you once and once again, Macavity’s not there!” Growth, Degrowth, Post-Growth There are so many accepted definiti…

Was the almost endless protection of "exercise of religion" and the now almost dead "establishment of religion" clauses in our First Amendment a mistake?
I think it is.
We have seen and are seeing the extremes of fundamentalist religion: Al Queda, ISIS, MAGA, etc
Israel has its own fundamentalist problems too. (Link below).
It has been said "never let a good crisis go to waste". Well, we certainly have several good crises going on.

As Other Israelis Die in War, Ultra-Orthodox Resist Call to Fight
Ultra-Orthodox Israelis, exempt for decades from military service, are now being drafted. Their rage is dividing Israel and threatening Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition.

Innovative building material: cardboard-confined rammed earth. Strong, cheap, sustainable - revolutionizing construction with lower carbon footprint and waste. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

This surprising building material is strong, cheap, and sustainable
A team at RMIT University has created a cement-free construction material using only cardboard, soil, and water. Strong enough for low-rise buildings, it reduces emissions, costs, and waste compared to concrete. The lightweight, on-site process makes it ideal for remote areas, while its thermal properties naturally cool buildings. Researchers see it as a key step toward greener, more resilient architecture.

"Food waste is a daunting problem – but we each hold a key to the solution in our own home"
#FoodWaste #Environment

🫘 Researchers turn coffee and plastic waste into climate solution
#chemistry

Researchers turn coffee and plastic waste into climate solution
Researchers at the University of Sharjah have patented a technology designed to capture carbon dioxide (CO₂) from industrial processes before it is released into the atmosphere.

A Framework for Energy Management Modelling in Hubs for Circularity
Tobias L{\o}vebakke Nielsen, Daniela Guericke, Alessio Trivella, Devrim Murat Yazan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19765

A Framework for Energy Management Modelling in Hubs for Circularity
The concept Hubs for Circularity (H4C) represents integrated systems that combine efficient use of clean energy and circular economy to enhance resource efficiency within a region. H4C benefit from the geographical proximity of different industries within industrial zones and the surrounding urban and rural areas, allowing them to share resources, technology, and infrastructure. They reduce the use of virgin resources through Industrial Symbiosis (IS), where one company uses waste of another co…

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Thundercat:
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#NowPlaying #Thundercat
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"EU produces 35.3kg of plastic packaging waste per person each year: Which country recycles the most?"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Recycling

⚗️ New device converts plastic waste into fuel using catalyst-free pyrolysis
#plastics…

New device converts plastic waste into fuel using catalyst-free pyrolysis
As tons of plastic waste continue to build up in landfills every day, Yale researchers have developed a way to convert this waste into fuels and other valuable products efficiently and cheaply. The results are published in Nature Chemical Engineering.

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Thundercat:
🎵 I Wish I Didn’t Waste Your Time (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #Thundercat
https://thundercat.bandcamp.com/album/i-wish-i-didn-t-waste-your-time
https://open.spotify.com/track/356A6LLhntlbIxP8h0Lf3Q

"Food Waste to Fertilizer System Turns Scraps Into Plant Fertilizer"
#Food #FoodWaste
https://happyeconews.c…

Food Waste to Fertilizer System Turns Scraps Into Plant Fertilizer | Happy Eco News
A Pittsburgh startup has perfected food waste to fertilizer technology that turns banana peels, coffee grounds, and leftover sandwiches into powerful plant

The clothes that never die: How fast fashion is burying Africa in plastic https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/08/the-clothes-that-never-die-how-fast-fashion-is-burying-africa-in-plastic/

The clothes that never die: How fast fashion is burying Africa in plastic
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Mountains of smoking waste sprawl across the Dandora dump in Nairobi, Kenya. The acrid stench clings to the air; marabou storks pick over scraps alongside people searching for plastic bottles or bones. Interspersed among the refuse are scraps […]

"Nuclear waste could be a source of fuel in future reactors"
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Nuclear waste could be a source of fuel in future reactors
From electric cars to artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, the technologies people use every day require a growing need for electricity. In theory, nuclear fusion—a process that fuses atoms together, releasing heat to turn generators—could provide vast energy supplies with minimal emissions. But nuclear fusion is an expensive prospect because one of its main fuels is a rare version of hydrogen called tritium.

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⚡ Coin-sized device uses nut waste and drops of water to generate green energy
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Coin-sized device uses nut waste and drops of water to generate green energy
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed an inexpensive device that generates enough electricity to power a calculator using only waste walnut shells and drops of water. Their work is published in the journal Energy & Environmental Materials.

"Vape waste: Recycling giants call for separate collections to stop battery fires"
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"This Home Siding Made from Rice Husks Saves Thousands of Trees and Diverts Crop Waste from Landfills"
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This Home Siding Made from Rice Husks Saves Thousands of Trees, Diverts Ag Waste from Landfills
One pallet of ACRE material saves a whole acre of tropical rainforest hardwoods, and in 2022 alone, 44,000 of those pallets were sold.

"Plastic pollution could linger at ocean surfaces for over a century, new research finds"
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Plastic pollution could linger at ocean surfaces for over a century, new research finds
Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a simple model to show how buoyant plastic can settle through the water column and they predict it could take over 100 years to remove plastic waste from the ocean's surface.

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🎵 Don't Waste My Time
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♻️ 'Old things work': Argentines giving new life to e-waste
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'Old things work': Argentines giving new life to e-waste
Need a new gaming console? Just make one yourself with an old ventilator. Got an old payment terminal? Turn it into a camera.

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"At least 45,000 sites in Wales could be contaminated with toxic waste, study says"
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"The race to find a way to recycle old turbine blades from windfarms"
#WindTurbines #Energy #Renewables

"‘For some this is junk, for others food’: the shops collecting plastic waste and handing back cash"
#Plastic #Plastics #Environment

"UK e-waste compliance rules extended to Amazon and other online retailers"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #EWaste

"How microbes could help solve the world's plastic pollution crisis"
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How microbes could help solve the world's plastic pollution crisis
With conventional waste management systems falling short, many scientists are turning to nature for innovative solutions to the issue of plastic waste. One promising avenue is microbial degradation: harnessing the natural abilities of certain bacteria and fungi to break down plastics in ways that current technologies cannot.

"From e-waste to e-winner: Amazon’s bet on resale for a more circular electronics economy"
#Amazon #EWaste #Technology

"Repurposing gemstone polishing waste to create smart cement"
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Repurposing gemstone polishing waste to create smart cement
Cement is one of the most-used materials in the world, and one of the highest emitters of global CO2 emissions. As demand for cement continues to grow, researchers are looking for alternatives to help reduce its environmental impacts.

"Drones take on Everest's garbage"
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Drones take on Everest's garbage
A team of drone operators joined climbers and guides at Everest Base Camp this climbing season, armed with heavy-duty drones to help clear rubbish from the world's highest peak.

"Revolutionary Technology Uses Fungi to Decompose Diapers in Months, Not Centuries"
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Revolutionary Technology Uses Fungi to Decompose Diapers in Months, Not Centuries | Happy Eco News
Texas startup Hiro Technologies uses fungi to decompose diapers in nine months versus centuries for traditional disposables. Their MycoDigestible Diapers include fungi packets that parents add before disposal. While promising for reducing landfill waste and methane emissions, the $35 weekly cost and safety questions remain significant adoption barriers.

"Turning shopping bags into streets: Research tackles plastic waste"
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Turning shopping bags into streets: Research tackles plastic waste
Discarded shopping bags and spent milk bottles could be given a second life by becoming part of critical infrastructure, new research published in Applied Sciences by Edith Cowan University (ECU) has found.