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  1. As Brampton garbage incinerator expansion proceeds, critics shift focus to oversight and waste diversion | Spare News

    While provincial government approval may have settled the question of expanding operations at a Brampton garbage incineration plant,…
    #Canada #Brampton #Airpollution #circulareconomy #economyandtheenvironment #emerald #energy #environmentalissues #humanimpactontheenvironment #incineration #naturalenvironment #pollution #SpareNews #waste #waste-to-energy
    europesays.com/canada/132180/

  2. A quotation from Carlyle

    At length, after infinite effort, the two parties come into actual juxtaposition; and Thirty stands fronting Thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway the word “Fire!” is given: and they blow the souls out of one another; and in place of sixty brisk useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! their Governors had fallen-out; and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.

    Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
    Sartor Resartus, Book 2, ch. 8 (1834)

    More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/85019…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #pawns #battle #casualties #classwarfare #death #soldier #war #waste

  3. A quotation from Carlyle

    At length, after infinite effort, the two parties come into actual juxtaposition; and Thirty stands fronting Thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway the word “Fire!” is given: and they blow the souls out of one another; and in place of sixty brisk useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! their Governors had fallen-out; and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.

    Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
    Sartor Resartus, Book 2, ch. 8 (1834)

    More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/85019…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #pawns #battle #casualties #classwarfare #death #soldier #war #waste

  4. A quotation from Carlyle

    At length, after infinite effort, the two parties come into actual juxtaposition; and Thirty stands fronting Thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway the word “Fire!” is given: and they blow the souls out of one another; and in place of sixty brisk useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! their Governors had fallen-out; and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.

    Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
    Sartor Resartus, Book 2, ch. 8 (1834)

    More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/85019…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #pawns #battle #casualties #classwarfare #death #soldier #war #waste

  5. A quotation from Carlyle

    At length, after infinite effort, the two parties come into actual juxtaposition; and Thirty stands fronting Thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway the word “Fire!” is given: and they blow the souls out of one another; and in place of sixty brisk useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! their Governors had fallen-out; and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.

    Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
    Sartor Resartus, Book 2, ch. 8 (1834)

    More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/85019…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #pawns #battle #casualties #classwarfare #death #soldier #war #waste

  6. When corporate chieftains decide that consumer products should become cheaper, flimsier, harder to repair, and easier to throw out, it is the garbage worker hauling bag after bag of trash that has to inherit those decisions

    jacobin.com/2026/07/garbage-sa

    #workers #labour #circulareconomy #waste #recycling #climatecrisis #waste #ecology #economy #consumerism #latestagecapitalism #ecocide #garbage

  7. When corporate chieftains decide that consumer products should become cheaper, flimsier, harder to repair, and easier to throw out, it is the garbage worker hauling bag after bag of trash that has to inherit those decisions

    jacobin.com/2026/07/garbage-sa

    #workers #labour #circulareconomy #waste #recycling #climatecrisis #waste #ecology #economy #consumerism #latestagecapitalism #ecocide #garbage

  8. theguardian.com/business/2026/. We need more #nuclear #power like we need a proverbial hole in the head, @greenpeace, @thegreenparty, & spending £35 billion on "small modular nuclear reactors", or SMRs, is a colossal #waste of #money. I could weep at the #opportunity #cost - just think about what else you could spend £35 billion on! If Mr Solowow wants to spend his fortune on #electricity generation, let him spend it on #renewables.

  9. theguardian.com/business/2026/. We need more #nuclear #power like we need a proverbial hole in the head, @greenpeace, @thegreenparty, & spending £35 billion on "small modular nuclear reactors", or SMRs, is a colossal #waste of #money. I could weep at the #opportunity #cost - just think about what else you could spend £35 billion on! If Mr Solowow wants to spend his fortune on #electricity generation, let him spend it on #renewables.

  10. Despite the U.S. spending over $50 billion per year on the F-150, at that rate (inflation adjusted) over decades now, an F-150 has never achieved a vertical takeoff or landing.
    #aviation #DefenseBudget #waste #F150

  11. Despite the U.S. spending over $50 billion per year on the F-150, at that rate (inflation adjusted) over decades now, an F-150 has never achieved a vertical takeoff or landing.
    #aviation #DefenseBudget #waste #F150

  12. Despite the U.S. spending over $50 billion per year on the F-150, at that rate (inflation adjusted) over decades now, an F-150 has never achieved a vertical takeoff or landing.
    #aviation #DefenseBudget #waste #F150

  13. Environment: Indonesia’s “War on Waste” at Bantargebang Landfill, from Earthbuddies and Mongabay

    Indonesia is now facing a very serious waste problem. In March 2026, a terrible accident happened at the Bantargebang landfill near Jakarta. Seven sanitation workers died after a huge pile of garbage collapsed on them.

    The question is, have you ever wondered such kind of thing to ever happen in this civilized world? Let’s talk about it. Six other people were injured. Bantargebang is not a small landfill. It is the biggest landfill in Indonesia and one of the largest in Southeast Asia. The area is as large as 200 football fields, and some mountains of trash are more than 50 meters high.

    After the disaster, many people started asking difficult questions. Why were workers still working in such dangerous conditions? Why had the landfill become so overloaded?

    Indonesian authorities then started criminal investigations against two former environmental officials connected to waste management problems in Jakarta and Bali.

    The tragedy became an important moment for Indonesia. It showed that the country’s waste crisis is no longer only about dirty streets or bad smells.

    It is now also about public safety, human lives, and environmental damage. President Prabowo Subianto later declared a national “war on waste” and promised major changes across the country.

    The post “Indonesia’s ‘War on Waste’ at the Bantargebang” appeared earlier on Earth Buddies. Read the whole piece at Indonesia’s “War on Waste” at the Bantargebang. The story was first published here and here in Indonesian on April 14 and 24, 2026.
    Rescue workers remove victims of the landslide of a mountain of rubbish found at the Bantargebang Integrated Waste Processing Site (TPST), Bekasi, West Java, Monday March 9, 2026. Photo: ANTARA FOTO/Darryl Ramadhan

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    #Environment #EnvironmentalLaw #Indonesia #LingkunganHidup #News #Politics #Waste
  14. Environment: Indonesia’s “War on Waste” at Bantargebang Landfill, from Earthbuddies and Mongabay

    Indonesia is now facing a very serious waste problem. In March 2026, a terrible accident happened at the Bantargebang landfill near Jakarta. Seven sanitation workers died after a huge pile of garbage collapsed on them.

    The question is, have you ever wondered such kind of thing to ever happen in this civilized world? Let’s talk about it. Six other people were injured. Bantargebang is not a small landfill. It is the biggest landfill in Indonesia and one of the largest in Southeast Asia. The area is as large as 200 football fields, and some mountains of trash are more than 50 meters high.

    After the disaster, many people started asking difficult questions. Why were workers still working in such dangerous conditions? Why had the landfill become so overloaded?

    Indonesian authorities then started criminal investigations against two former environmental officials connected to waste management problems in Jakarta and Bali.

    The tragedy became an important moment for Indonesia. It showed that the country’s waste crisis is no longer only about dirty streets or bad smells.

    It is now also about public safety, human lives, and environmental damage. President Prabowo Subianto later declared a national “war on waste” and promised major changes across the country.

    The post “Indonesia’s ‘War on Waste’ at the Bantargebang” appeared earlier on Earth Buddies. Read the whole piece at Indonesia’s “War on Waste” at the Bantargebang. The story was first published here and here in Indonesian on April 14 and 24, 2026.
    Rescue workers remove victims of the landslide of a mountain of rubbish found at the Bantargebang Integrated Waste Processing Site (TPST), Bekasi, West Java, Monday March 9, 2026. Photo: ANTARA FOTO/Darryl Ramadhan

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    #Environment #EnvironmentalLaw #Indonesia #LingkunganHidup #News #Politics #Waste
  15. #Sony didn't learn from Bose's good example: it's #ending #streaming #support for lots of #services on tons of its #speakers, #soundbars and #BluRay #players — they'll still work, but you'll lose the likes of #Netflix, #Spotify, #Prime #Video and even #Google Cast

    source: techradar.com/televisions/soun…


    Like #Bose earlier this year, Sony is shutting down servers for some of its #audiovisual products. But unlike Bose, which went to great pains to enable people to #maintain as much #functionality as possible, Sony's devices will lose many core #features as a result.

    #fail #news #technology #electronics #cloud #service #capitalism #product #own #buy #software #company #economy #business #customer #future #soundbar #speaker #tv #player #multimedia #stream #feature #useless #device #end #thisistheend #waste #PlannedObsolescence #obsolescence

  16. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: #Engineering professor Abbie Clarke-Sather and her students at the University of #Minnesota #Duluth spent 10 years building a #machine that gently pulls old #clothes apart fiber by fiber.

    Unlike commercial shredders that chop fabric into unusable bits, this “fiber shredder” produces strands long enough to re-spin into new yarn. It's a small-scale #solution to the 17 million tons of #textiles landfilled in the #US each year.

    👉 mprnews.org/story/2026/06/11/d

    #textiles #waste #fastfashion #recycling #sustainability #science #environment

  17. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: #Engineering professor Abbie Clarke-Sather and her students at the University of #Minnesota #Duluth spent 10 years building a #machine that gently pulls old #clothes apart fiber by fiber.

    Unlike commercial shredders that chop fabric into unusable bits, this “fiber shredder” produces strands long enough to re-spin into new yarn. It's a small-scale #solution to the 17 million tons of #textiles landfilled in the #US each year.

    👉 mprnews.org/story/2026/06/11/d

    #textiles #waste #fastfashion #recycling #sustainability #science #environment

  18. The way the system is supposed to work is that if a US President is clearly corrupt and committing 'high crimes and misdemeanors' and repeatedly failing to uphold his Oath to the Constitution, then Congress is supposed to step in and put a stop to it.

    So at this point in the Trump administration, these two spineless enablers are responsible for allowing Trump's blatant #Fraud, #Waste, and #Abuse to continue.

    #Congress #MikeJohnson #JohnThune #House #Senate #USPol #Trump #War #Iran #China #DOD #DOJ #NoKings #Resist #Protest #Democracy

  19. The way the system is supposed to work is that if a US President is clearly corrupt and committing 'high crimes and misdemeanors' and repeatedly failing to uphold his Oath to the Constitution, then Congress is supposed to step in and put a stop to it.

    So at this point in the Trump administration, these two spineless enablers are responsible for allowing Trump's blatant #Fraud, #Waste, and #Abuse to continue.

    #Congress #MikeJohnson #JohnThune #House #Senate #USPol #Trump #War #Iran #China #DOD #DOJ #NoKings #Resist #Protest #Democracy

  20. ACTION FASHION CRASH contre la MODE JETABLE
    Ce samedi 6-6-26 en fin de matinée, des membres d’XR Bordeaux, ainsi que d’autres organisations militantes, ont déversé en musique 10 mètres cubes de vêtements à l’entrée de la rue Ste Catherine.
    Au rythme endiablé de la batucada Drumteam, avec banderole, pancartes et tracts explicatifs, les passants ont pu assister à un défilé de mode alternatif avec ces vêtements destinés à la destruction. #stopfastfashion #fastfashion #stopwaste #gaspillage #waste

  21. Podcast Episode: Money, Time And Happiness

    Spending and saving are two extremes that define how we use our money. On one side, compulsive buying creates closets full of unused clothes — frozen capital that generates nothing and leaves behind environmental damage through fast fashion waste.

    On the other side, saving and investing unlock the power of compound interest, where time and consistency transform small monthly contributions into significant wealth.

    The nineteenth‑century factory worker had no access to this tool; mutual aid was their only option. Today, the infrastructure exists: mutual funds with low minimums, automated savings apps, and tax‑advantaged accounts.

    The real challenge is not whether compound interest works, but whether we start before we feel ready. In the end, the choice is between money trapped in fabric or money working for your future — and the lever you pull determines whether you optimize for time, money, or happiness.

    Tu voto:

    #access #apps #automation #behavior #budgeting #capital #clutter #compound #consistency #consumption #discipline #environment #fastfashion #finance #future #growth #interest #investing #investment #money #mutualism #personalFinance #podcast #psychology #saving #solidarity #spending #time #waste #wealth
  22. Podcast Episode: Money, Time And Happiness

    Spending and saving are two extremes that define how we use our money. On one side, compulsive buying creates closets full of unused clothes — frozen capital that generates nothing and leaves behind environmental damage through fast fashion waste.

    On the other side, saving and investing unlock the power of compound interest, where time and consistency transform small monthly contributions into significant wealth.

    The nineteenth‑century factory worker had no access to this tool; mutual aid was their only option. Today, the infrastructure exists: mutual funds with low minimums, automated savings apps, and tax‑advantaged accounts.

    The real challenge is not whether compound interest works, but whether we start before we feel ready. In the end, the choice is between money trapped in fabric or money working for your future — and the lever you pull determines whether you optimize for time, money, or happiness.

    Tu voto:

    #access #apps #automation #behavior #budgeting #capital #clutter #compound #consistency #consumption #discipline #environment #fastfashion #finance #future #growth #interest #investing #investment #money #mutualism #personalFinance #podcast #psychology #saving #solidarity #spending #time #waste #wealth
  23. Japan steps up efforts on cooking oil in race for sustainable aviation fuel​​

    Japanese homemaker Maki Watanabe carefully pours into a plastic bottle the oil she used to cook her deep-fried aubergines, doing her part in her Tokyo kitchen for a national effort to ramp up production of eco-friendly jet fuel. “It w…
    #Japan #JP #JapanNews #airlines #aviation #biofuel #food #iran #news #waste
    alojapan.com/1494945/japan-ste

  24. Japan steps up efforts on cooking oil in race for sustainable aviation fuel​​

    Japanese homemaker Maki Watanabe carefully pours into a plastic bottle the oil she used to cook her deep-fried aubergines, doing her part in her Tokyo kitchen for a national effort to ramp up production of eco-friendly jet…
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #Cooking #airlines #aviation #biofuel #Iran #waste
    diningandcooking.com/2672899/j

  25. Japan steps up efforts on cooking oil in race for sustainable aviation fuel​​

    Japanese homemaker Maki Watanabe carefully pours into a plastic bottle the oil she used to cook her deep-fried aubergines, doing her part in her Tokyo kitchen for a national effort to ramp up production of eco-friendly jet…
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #Cooking #airlines #aviation #biofuel #Iran #waste
    diningandcooking.com/2672899/j