Paris rubbish collectors could strike over the summer, a major French union said Thursday, raising the spectre of piles of stinking trash on the streets during the Olympic Games. Walkouts could start in May and continue from July 1 to September 8, the CGT union branch representing binmen warned, a period that includes the Games,...
Meh, I fucking hate messing with Ruby to try to get it to work for Fastlane. The various tools all make no sense. It's gem this and bundle that and it's all a mess. I wish Fastlane used Python which has good ecosystem management.
Friday, April 5
Hawick Common Haugh 10am
Denholm Village Green 12.30pm
Jedburgh Glebe car park 3pm
Saturday, April 6
Peebles Kingsmeadows car park 9.30am
Innerleithen Red Bull car park 12pm
Walkerburn Bridge 3pm
Sunday, April 7
Coldstream Bridge 9.30pm
Tweedmouth Queen’s Gardens 12pm
Kelso Mayfield Garden Centre 3pm
Nina Gomes collects rubbish from the sea near #Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro. For years Gomes has been accompanying her father, Ricardo Gomes, a biologist and director of the Mar Urbano Institute, to collect rubbish from the city’s beaches.
Solikah, an Indonesian housewife living in the fishing village of #Teluk, was in tears as she pointed to piles of #trash strewn on a beach close to her home of 40 years.
Cheap crappy picture frame. This isn't even wood, it's some kind of plastic foam with a wood pattern printed on it.
You can see the pixels in a section of the photo.
Glued it together anyways, as it apparently has emotional value? It was an employment anniversary gift. Shows how valued the employees are, if you ask me 😬
With the slight exception of San Luis reservoir, every major reservoir in California is at or above average in terms of water storage for this time of year. This augurs well for a decent water year in California.
We ran on Friday morning , and then walked the same 12.5k route to collect debris - two bags full (route planned to go via two recycling bins). #recycling#rubbish
We ran through the woods of the #Harestanes estate and up to the #Waterloo memorial. Road and tracks, 18k.
On the way back along the #Teviot the weekly litter collection - including a very large water bottle. Luckily plastic not glass… the #recycling bin is full from the last 10 days.
Lovely roads, great countryside and people insist on throwing their #rubbish from their cars! 🤬🫣
When I came to the country at the end of the 1980s, there were still wild rubbish #dumps burning in the countryside. Later, people laughed about #wasteSeparation in neighbouring Germany. In the meantime, we have overtaken them. In terms of packaging laws. In large supermarkets, we conveniently
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A Greek island has been able to close its landfill site with clever recycling and waste handling initiatives. Tilos has already become self sufficient in energy. What an achievement!
Theory of #RenewableEnergy is that it’s very low surface power density, and the practice is that because of this, it occupies vast amounts of one non-renewable resource that everyone forgets about: land surface. In terms of surface power density PV outputs 6.63 W/m2, wind power 1.84 W/m2. Nuclear - 240.81 W/m2. That means for one 1 W of power you need to allocate 120x more land for wind than nuclear, and that is not only for the space occupied by the actual plant but everything: mining, manufacturing, operations, decommissioning.
Some people will argue that utility-scale renewables are not good indeed, but we should stick to decentralised rooftop or wall PV installations. Except that decentralisation requires vast redundancy of infrastructure (cabling, inverters), much lower efficiency, which results in 4x higher production cost (LCOE) per kWh, thus nullifying the claimed lower cost of renewables.
Engineers have been trying to get that message to the broad public long ago: a PV farm or wind turbine look really nice at distance. But an utility-scale renewables power plant is what any other power plant is: a huge, industrial compound, installed on steel and concrete foundation interfering with the land it occupies.
Recycling in the US (and many Western countries, for that matter) is a sham. It always was.
In reality, most of the plastic placed in recycling bins were never turned into new products.
Now China has stopped taking that waste, the myth of near infinite consumption without the guilt of waste has been exposed for the lie that it always was.
That's not to say that we shouldn't aim for a sustainable circular economy. Of course we should.
But we'll need much bigger changes to make it happen.
"For decades, we were sending the bulk of our recycling to China—tons and tons of it, sent over on ships... But last year, the country restricted imports of certain recyclables... Waste-management companies are telling [municipalities] there is no longer a market for their recycling.
"These municipalities have two choices: pay much higher rates to get rid of recycling, or throw it all away.
"Most are choosing the latter.
"When [its kerbside recycling] program launched, Franklin [in New Hampshire] could break even on recycling by selling it for $6 a ton. Now the transfer station is charging the town $125 a ton to recycle, or $68 a ton to incinerate.
"This end of recycling comes at a time when the US is creating more waste than ever. In 2015, the most recent year for which national data are available, America generated 262.4 million tons of waste, up 4.5% from 2010 and 60% from 1985."
Every country needs to be as self-sufficient as possible.
If a country can't handle the #Waste / #Rubbish / #Trash / #Litter it produces, in-house, then it's time to cut down on the waste produced, not dump it off on another country, be it India, China, or wherever.
We need to work towards the #CircularEcomony if we are to survive.
When it says "recycleable" it does not mean "likely to be recycled".
According to my own online research, the #recycling systems in #Europe and the #US are generally most likely to recycle code 1 and 2 plastics, and sometimes code 5.
So just pay attention to the recycling codes and speak after me: "👏 One and 👏 two and 👏 maybe 👏 five!"
Paris rubbish collectors threaten Olympics strike over 'excessive workload' (www.france24.com)
Paris rubbish collectors could strike over the summer, a major French union said Thursday, raising the spectre of piles of stinking trash on the streets during the Olympic Games. Walkouts could start in May and continue from July 1 to September 8, the CGT union branch representing binmen warned, a period that includes the Games,...
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