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Mount Everest is so overcrowded and full of trash that it has been called 'the world's highest garbage dump'. Today's cartoon by Tomasz Jędrzejak. More cartoons: https://www.cartoonmovement.com/

#MountEverest #trash #garbage #waste

Cartoon showing the top of Mount Everest filled with trash, while a person with his pants down is sitting a the top, taking a dump.

Cartoon Movement

@cartoonmovement@newsie.social · 3 days ago

Mount Everest is so overcrowded and full of trash that it has been called 'the world's highest garbage dump'. Today's cartoon by Tomasz Jędrzejak. More cartoons: https://www.cartoonmovement.com/

#MountEverest #trash #garbage #waste

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Tjeerd Royaards

@royaards@newsie.social · 2 weeks ago

The last area on earth without plastic pollution. Cartoon from 2024.

#nature #plastic #trash #waste #garbage

Cartoon showing a zoo. In the zoo is a glass cage with various animals. Around the zoo is a fence and a sign that reads 'Last area on earth without plastic pollution'. Outside the fence, we see hills of plastic trash. A booth is selling tickets to people wanting to enter the zoo. Inside the zoo, the ground is also littered with plastic trash (except for the inside of the glass cage). A stand with a giant plastic bottle on the roof is selling snacks and drinks to the people.

Tjeerd Royaards

@royaards@newsie.social · 2 weeks ago

The last area on earth without plastic pollution. Cartoon from 2024.

#nature #plastic #trash #waste #garbage

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Dragofix

@Dragofix@veganism.social · 3 weeks ago

‘The new narcotics’: how waste crime is causing environmental disaster across the UK https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/22/uk-waste-crime-uk-environmental-disaster

#UnitedKingdom #UK #environment #waste #crime

Dragofix

@Dragofix@veganism.social · 3 weeks ago

‘The new narcotics’: how waste crime is causing environmental disaster across the UK https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/22/uk-waste-crime-uk-environmental-disaster

#UnitedKingdom #UK #environment #waste #crime

tools for commensality 🧿

@inquiline@assemblag.es · 3 weeks ago

2/ ofc since I don't work for Wirecutter, my conclusion is a good deal more dismal than "please buy as much as you want, just be a tiny bit more selective"

most of this stuff is headed quickly to a landfill from the moment it's created. we should all buy less, buy more secondhand, repair what we can

#landfill #DiscardStudies #waste

tools for commensality 🧿

@inquiline@assemblag.es replied · 3 weeks ago

3/ & if we live near shipping corridors, pressure officials not to chase growth over the rights and health of folks who live near the corridors

(note I said our stuff is bound to be waste from the moment it's created, not moment it's purchased. see, e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/14/los-angeles-cargo-theft-union-pacific )

#LosAngeles #shipping #waste #logistics

tools for commensality 🧿

@inquiline@assemblag.es · 3 weeks ago

"Most people said they hadn’t really thought about where their stuff went after they sent it back"

I've been writing a little bit about "reverse logistics" & watched a pallet unboxing video last year for research...
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/mystery-amazon-pallet-unboxing/
archive link: https://archive.ph/NO3Xo

#logistics #shipping #capitalism

https://www.nytimes.com

We Bought a 450-Pound Mystery Pallet Packed With Returned Goods From Amazon and Beyond. Here’s What We Found Inside.

tools for commensality 🧿

@inquiline@assemblag.es replied · 3 weeks ago

2/ ofc since I don't work for Wirecutter, my conclusion is a good deal more dismal than "please buy as much as you want, just be a tiny bit more selective"

most of this stuff is headed quickly to a landfill from the moment it's created. we should all buy less, buy more secondhand, repair what we can

#landfill #DiscardStudies #waste

The Japan Times

@thejapantimes@mastodon.social · last month

One man's trash is another man's art — meet the Tsukuba-based British artist crafting intricate sculptures out of aluminum cans. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2025/11/08/our-lives/jon-homewood-tsukuba-artist/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #community #ourlives #expats #artists #waste #tsukuba #ibarakiprefecture

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Paul Houle

@UP8@mastodon.social · last month

🎊Chemists discover clean and green way to recycle Teflon

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-chemists-green-recycle-teflon.html

#chemistry #mechanochemistry #ballmill #plastics #ptfe #waste #recycling #manufacturing

Chemists discover clean and green way to recycle Teflon

New research demonstrates a simple, eco-friendly method to break down Teflon—one of the world's most durable plastics—into useful chemical building blocks.

Paul Houle

@UP8@mastodon.social · last month

🎊Chemists discover clean and green way to recycle Teflon

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-chemists-green-recycle-teflon.html

#chemistry #mechanochemistry #ballmill #plastics #ptfe #waste #recycling #manufacturing

Chemists discover clean and green way to recycle Teflon

New research demonstrates a simple, eco-friendly method to break down Teflon—one of the world's most durable plastics—into useful chemical building blocks.

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

@Lazarou@mastodon.social · last month

LLMs trading Crypto is like Shit drinking Piss

#LLMs #Crypto #Technology #Waste #Grift

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · last month

The ouster of Joe Allen, #FHFA's acting #InspectorGeneral, follows the agency's director, Bill Pulte, becoming an outspoken voice in support of the #Trump admin. Across the government, the Trump admin has so far fired or reassigned close to two dozen agency #watchdogs, who police #waste, #fraud & #abuse. It has also defunded the group that supervises those offices.