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  1. Scotland imposes mandatory environmental assessments on new datacentres

    The next issue will be making sure those assessments are themselves considered in the context of water, power and the general environment.

    theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/s

    #AI #DataCentre #SlopSheds #IT #Scotland Environment #Water #Power #Waste

  2. Mallorca lets Spain down when it comes to clean beaches

    When looking at Europe’s dirtiest beaches, data usually separates into two categories: official water quality reports (bacterial contamination)…
    #Spain #ES #Europe #Europa #EU #Balearics #beaches #England #Latestheadlines #Llucmajor #Majorca #Mallorca #Palmabeach #plasticwaste #Pollution #PuertoPollensa #Santanyi #Sewagespill #waste #waterquality
    europesays.com/spain/86480/

  3. Reverse New #IsleOfWight DIY Waste Charges

    Reverse newly introduced #DIY waste charges at Household #Waste #Recycling Centres

    Charges unfairly #penalise ordinary #homeowners who are simply trying to maintain, #repair, or renovate their own #homes

    This waste has always been part of household renovation

    #Islanders rely on DIY because they cannot afford contractors

    Charging for DIY renovation waste is a tax on home improvement

    change.org/p/reverse-the-new-d

    #Privatisation #capitalism #outsourcing

  4. #Natural #Renaturation can take many forms in #Berlin, for in few other #majorcities do #abandoned #places and #vibranthubs of activity lie side by side. Therefore, #ruins, #waste, and #urban #biodiversity can exist in close #proximity, as is the case near historical but #repurposed #ruins like the RAW site in Berlin-#Friedrichshain.

    © #StefanFWirth May 2026

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    #Photos
    © S F.Wirth, RAW Berlin

  5. 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.)

    #Keurig #Enshitification #environment #waste #disgrace #timhortons

  6. 1/2 #LostSpecies vanish like a #cigarette. This was my first connotation when I discovered some #vintage cigarette boxes for my #BiodiversityShrines. Inspired by ancient #klosterarbeiten, they contain fantasy species, precious materials like #perlage and "civilisation" #waste. The realistic #PaperArt #butterfly sits on #wire found in a flowerless meadow. #BiodiversityLoss My #shrines are a project for an exhibition in October. #mixedmedia #ArtInABox #assemblageArt #artActivism #embroidery

  7. #NavajoNation officials, activists feel cut out as company advances #uranium #mining plans

    By Hannah Grover, May 1, 2023

    "When a foreign company started exploratory drilling for the possible return of uranium mining near #ChurchRock, community members say they were not informed in advance.

    “It was a complete shock,” Jonathan Perry, the director of Eastern Navajo #Diné Against Uranium Mining, said of the process that started this winter.

    "The eastern Navajo Nation communities have stood largely in opposition to future uranium mining for decades.

    "'The majority of Diné people have been personally impacted by (uranium),' Leona Morgan, an activist and member of Navajo Nation, said.

    "The Navajo Nation has a moratorium dating back nearly two decades that prohibits uranium extraction, but the Eastern Agency consists of what is known as checkerboard. That means federal and state lands are intermixed with Navajo, or Diné, lands and allotment lands.

    "#LaramideResources, a Canada-based company, plans on extracting uranium from an area within the checkerboard that is not tribal land.

    "The work would occur near the same location where, in 1979, a dam breach released 1,100 tons of uranium waste and 94 million gallons of #RadioactiveWater into the #RioPuerco, which the nearby Navajo communities relied upon for water.

    "Decades later, the spill, along with mine and mill sites in the area, remain unremediated. Earlier this year, the U.S. NRC issued a record of decision as well as a license amendment that will allow the #UnitedNuclearCorporation—which owned the site where the spill occurred—to dispose of mine #waste from the old uranium mine at the old mill site.

    "Morgan said there are concerns that this disposal method in an unlined pit could lead to a second spill happening, especially as climate change increases the risks of extreme weather events like monsoon floods."

    #IndigenousNews #NoNukes #NoNewNukes #WaterIsLife #EnvironmentalRacism #FirstNations #NativeAmericans

    Source: nmpoliticalreport.com/2023/05/

  8. I walked to one of my favourite neighbourhood destinations today: the community gardens at Hacienda Sarria. They’ve all been bulldozed. Those gardens and orchards fed a lot of people. Their flower fields fed a lot of pollinators. Now it’s all gone. For what? An equipment yard. It shouldn’t be legal to destroy something so beautiful and so necessary. Six Nations have issued a development moratorium along the Haldimand Tract, but colonizers gonna keep on colonizing. #KWAwesome #Kitchener #ProtectTheTract #HaldimandTract #Destruction #Waste #HabitatDestruction #WaterlooRegion #DishWithOneSpoonTreaty @waterlooregion

  9. its so fucking #funny that #nuclear #waste is such a #contentious #topic. like yeah those damn nuclear #advocates need to figure out somewhere #reasonable to put that nuclear waste. for now we will  be sticking with #coal #power because it puts its waste products safe and sound In Our #Lungs, where they cannot hurt #anybody,