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🐦🔥 End-of-Life Strategies for Wind Turbines: Blade Recycling, Second-Life Applications, and Circular Economy Integration
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/18/19/5182
#wind #energy #renewableenergy #waste #recycling #circulareconomy
🐦🔥 End-of-Life Strategies for Wind Turbines: Blade Recycling, Second-Life Applications, and Circular Economy Integration
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/18/19/5182
#wind #energy #renewableenergy #waste #recycling #circulareconomy
⚡ Green electronics thanks to biodegradable circuit boards
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-green-electronics-biodegradable-circuit-boards.html
#electronics #materials #manufacturing #waste #biodegradable #circulareconomy
⚡ Green electronics thanks to biodegradable circuit boards
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-green-electronics-biodegradable-circuit-boards.html
#electronics #materials #manufacturing #waste #biodegradable #circulareconomy
Japan is pushing the reuse market as a new consumption model, with it's Environment Ministry planning a road map by the end of March 2026 outlining steps to boost growth of the sector. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/20/japan/society/japan-reuse-market-grow/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #recycling #waste #localgovernment
Wait, #openai is valued at $500 *billion*?
Are you kidding me? I wouldn't value it at more than $1 billion and that's being optimistically generous.
Of course there's a lot more to the article, which is informative, but the $500B is shocking for an environmentally damaging free product which plagiarizes existing works to function.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/15/openais_chatgpt_popular_few_pay/?td=rt-3a
Wait, #openai is valued at $500 *billion*?
Are you kidding me? I wouldn't value it at more than $1 billion and that's being optimistically generous.
Of course there's a lot more to the article, which is informative, but the $500B is shocking for an environmentally damaging free product which plagiarizes existing works to function.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/15/openais_chatgpt_popular_few_pay/?td=rt-3a
We're all going to be paying AI's Godzilla-sized power bills https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/13/ai_power_bills/ via @theregister & @sjvn
#AI needs far more power than utility companies have to sell to them, which means we're stuck with the bill for building new power plants and grids.
@sjvn @theregister "… the training phase of a state-of-the-art AI model requires repeated adjustment of billions to trillions of parameters. That process alone requires thousands of GPUs running simultaneously for weeks or months at a time. Adding insult to injury, each of those special AI chips draws far more juice than your run-of-the-mill CPU."
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The world's second biggest exporter of clothes, Bangladesh is looking to technology to gain control of the fashion industry's other major product: textile waste. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/05/asia-pacific/bangladesh-textiles-tech-waste/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #bangladesh #textiles #waste #tech #recycling
Tomorrow is a big day. Our Demand Reduction Group is going to extend expts done in UCL's chemistry building to tweak the operation of a subset of buildings to reduce #energy #waste.
The changes me made were so extreme, radical, and brave, that no one, aside from the three people looking at the metering data, actually noticed.
Yet they resulted in six-figure reductions in energy costs for a single building and revealed a wealth of malfunctions that have gradually been addressed. #notzero
Tomorrow is a big day. Our Demand Reduction Group is going to extend expts done in UCL's chemistry building to tweak the operation of a subset of buildings to reduce #energy #waste.
The changes me made were so extreme, radical, and brave, that no one, aside from the three people looking at the metering data, actually noticed.
Yet they resulted in six-figure reductions in energy costs for a single building and revealed a wealth of malfunctions that have gradually been addressed. #notzero
"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
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/09/18/the-macavity-of-degrowth-waste-the-empire-that-isnt-there/
"A federal watchdog reported Thursday that Georgia’s program requiring able-bodied adults to document low-paying work to get Medicaid has spent much more on administrative costs than on providing health care...The GAO analysis shows that from fiscal year 2021 through the second quarter of 2025, Georgia reported $54.2 million in administrative spending and $26.2 million on health care."
#healthcare #medicaid #WorkRequirements #poverty #waste #fraud #abuse #georgia #USpol
🚨"#DOL staffers who took DOGE’s “Fork in the Road” offer earlier this year have returned to the agency as full-time workers after collecting their full pay & benefits for months w/o performing their job duties.
The reinstatements demonstrate the whiplash fed workers face when Trump’s directives to shrink the govt collide with the demands of an agency’s day-to-day work.
#Waste #Fraud #Abuse #Musk #DOGE #Protest #TrumpRegime #USPol https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/labor-department-brings-back-staff-who-took-fork-offer-to-quit
"A federal watchdog reported Thursday that Georgia’s program requiring able-bodied adults to document low-paying work to get Medicaid has spent much more on administrative costs than on providing health care...The GAO analysis shows that from fiscal year 2021 through the second quarter of 2025, Georgia reported $54.2 million in administrative spending and $26.2 million on health care."
#healthcare #medicaid #WorkRequirements #poverty #waste #fraud #abuse #georgia #USpol
"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
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/09/18/the-macavity-of-degrowth-waste-the-empire-that-isnt-there/
🚨"#DOL staffers who took DOGE’s “Fork in the Road” offer earlier this year have returned to the agency as full-time workers after collecting their full pay & benefits for months w/o performing their job duties.
The reinstatements demonstrate the whiplash fed workers face when Trump’s directives to shrink the govt collide with the demands of an agency’s day-to-day work.
#Waste #Fraud #Abuse #Musk #DOGE #Protest #TrumpRegime #USPol https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/labor-department-brings-back-staff-who-took-fork-offer-to-quit
The Japanese government is pushing for the development of a new plastic material that naturally decomposes in the sea as marine environmental pollution becomes ever more serious. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/15/japan/science-health/developing-biodegradable-plastics-to-reduce-marine-plastic-waste/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sciencehealth #oceans #environment #plastic #waste #meti #pollution
McDonald's Japan has cancelled a Happy Meal promotion based on the "One Piece" manga series in the wake of a frenzy sparked by a Pokemon-themed campaign that triggered an uproar over uneaten food being discarded. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/21/companies/one-piece-mcdonalds/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #mcdonald039s #onepiece #pokemon #waste #food #cardgames
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