#waste — Public Fediverse posts
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#tourisme #tourism #gaspillage #waste #pollution
1 000 ANS, c’est le temps nécessaire aux chaussons d’hôtel pour se dégrader.
Originale et passionnante enquête du Sunday Times (en anglais, accès gratuit) sur l’impact environnemental des chaussons d’hôtel.
[Via la lettre d’information de Que Choisir]
https://www.thetimes.com/travel/inspiration/investigation-the-truth-about-hotel-slippers-l0qj0tt5p -
#tourisme #tourism #gaspillage #waste #pollution
1 000 ANS, c’est le temps nécessaire aux chaussons d’hôtel pour se dégrader.
Originale et passionnante enquête du Sunday Times (en anglais, accès gratuit) sur l’impact environnemental des chaussons d’hôtel.
[Via la lettre d’information de Que Choisir]
https://www.thetimes.com/travel/inspiration/investigation-the-truth-about-hotel-slippers-l0qj0tt5p -
The Carbon Footprint of AI Written Books and a Rating System For Environmental Impact
Reading Time: 3 minutes—
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It’s worth considering a new rating system for AI generated content such as books. According to [an article in The Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/daggermouth-novel-bestseller-ai/688067/) AI written slop in the form of Daggermouth is best selling AI fiction and my first thought is that this is awful. It’s awful because AI can generate books far faster than we can read them, but it also means that we have a highly wasteful way of generating books.
If we imagine the carbon footprint of a human writer, then it’s the carbon footprint of a human being. Normal water consumption, normal food consumption. Normal travel, and more.
Now, if we consider the carbon footprint of AI written slop/drivel we’re counting huge amounts of water, fossil fuels, in theory, thousands of computers in a data centre and more. WE’re speaking about an environmental disaster for every piece of AI generated content.
That’s why we need to bring in an energy rating like we have for cars, fridges, TVs and more. We need to certify the environmental cost of AI driven books, and charge a supplement to offset their carbon footprint like we have when buying flights from Easyjet or products from Galaxus.
In an age where people cycle, walk, run, take buses and trains, to avoid using cars it makes sense for us to hold AI generated swill to account. If we’re told “Don’t eat red meat and chickens because of the environmental impact, then moving to AI generated books is an absurd lateral move because it undoes all of the steps we took to become more environmentally conscious.
In my eyes AI written slop should not be sold for a simple reason. If authors and publishers use AI to generate their books, then, with our own prompts we could get AI to write books for us, without using the middle people. We could eliminate the need for authors, and publishers. That’s why AI written content is absurd.
“Shunning authors suspected of employing AI might work if there were any way to tell for sure—which there isn’t. That shaming ritual puts the moral burden on individual authors instead of on the mammoth corporations responsible for the system in which they’re trying to eke out a livelihood” There is a simple solution to this. Real transparency.
With transparency we know, ahead of time, whether a book is written, edited, or more by humans or AI. it also gives us the opportunity to decide for ourselves whether we buy a book or not. If AI use is hidden from us then the solution is simple. We stop buying books that were written after 2023, especially by authors we are not familiar with.
It’s worth remarking that within the Atlantic article they speak of Kindle Unlimited being used to push AIGC (AI generated Crap) rather than people deliberately buying AIGC. I noticed that with Audible a lot of the “included” content was AI narrated content, rather than human read content. That was one of the encouragements I needed to take a break from being an Audible premium member.
If Kindle pushes AI slop for “free” and Audible (owned by Amazon) does the same but with narration, then Amazon is going for the long tail of mediocre content rather than the long tail of content worth paying for. The insinuation by Kindle and Amazon is that AIGC is not worth paying for.
If every AI requests uses huge amounts of water, and power, then we need to keep track of that and reflect it in book certification, with ratings from A to E where clean AI gets an A rating and hugely wasteful AI gets an E rating. I prefer to read books by human beings since I read for pleasure and AI models just run programmed.
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The Carbon Footprint of AI Written Books and a Rating System For Environmental Impact
Reading Time: 3 minutes—
title:
It’s worth considering a new rating system for AI generated content such as books. According to [an article in The Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/daggermouth-novel-bestseller-ai/688067/) AI written slop in the form of Daggermouth is best selling AI fiction and my first thought is that this is awful. It’s awful because AI can generate books far faster than we can read them, but it also means that we have a highly wasteful way of generating books.
If we imagine the carbon footprint of a human writer, then it’s the carbon footprint of a human being. Normal water consumption, normal food consumption. Normal travel, and more.
Now, if we consider the carbon footprint of AI written slop/drivel we’re counting huge amounts of water, fossil fuels, in theory, thousands of computers in a data centre and more. WE’re speaking about an environmental disaster for every piece of AI generated content.
That’s why we need to bring in an energy rating like we have for cars, fridges, TVs and more. We need to certify the environmental cost of AI driven books, and charge a supplement to offset their carbon footprint like we have when buying flights from Easyjet or products from Galaxus.
In an age where people cycle, walk, run, take buses and trains, to avoid using cars it makes sense for us to hold AI generated swill to account. If we’re told “Don’t eat red meat and chickens because of the environmental impact, then moving to AI generated books is an absurd lateral move because it undoes all of the steps we took to become more environmentally conscious.
In my eyes AI written slop should not be sold for a simple reason. If authors and publishers use AI to generate their books, then, with our own prompts we could get AI to write books for us, without using the middle people. We could eliminate the need for authors, and publishers. That’s why AI written content is absurd.
“Shunning authors suspected of employing AI might work if there were any way to tell for sure—which there isn’t. That shaming ritual puts the moral burden on individual authors instead of on the mammoth corporations responsible for the system in which they’re trying to eke out a livelihood” There is a simple solution to this. Real transparency.
With transparency we know, ahead of time, whether a book is written, edited, or more by humans or AI. it also gives us the opportunity to decide for ourselves whether we buy a book or not. If AI use is hidden from us then the solution is simple. We stop buying books that were written after 2023, especially by authors we are not familiar with.
It’s worth remarking that within the Atlantic article they speak of Kindle Unlimited being used to push AIGC (AI generated Crap) rather than people deliberately buying AIGC. I noticed that with Audible a lot of the “included” content was AI narrated content, rather than human read content. That was one of the encouragements I needed to take a break from being an Audible premium member.
If Kindle pushes AI slop for “free” and Audible (owned by Amazon) does the same but with narration, then Amazon is going for the long tail of mediocre content rather than the long tail of content worth paying for. The insinuation by Kindle and Amazon is that AIGC is not worth paying for.
If every AI requests uses huge amounts of water, and power, then we need to keep track of that and reflect it in book certification, with ratings from A to E where clean AI gets an A rating and hugely wasteful AI gets an E rating. I prefer to read books by human beings since I read for pleasure and AI models just run programmed.
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Health fears linger in a Brazilian neighborhood built over oil waste https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/health-fears-linger-in-a-brazilian-neighborhood-built-over-oil-waste/
#Brazil #environment #fossilfuel #fossilfuels #oil #waste #health #PublicHealth
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Health fears linger in a Brazilian neighborhood built over oil waste https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/health-fears-linger-in-a-brazilian-neighborhood-built-over-oil-waste/
#Brazil #environment #fossilfuel #fossilfuels #oil #waste #health #PublicHealth
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Four strikes system comes in as needles, laptops and other rubbish found in FOGO and recycling bins https://www.allforgardening.com/1902416/four-strikes-system-comes-in-as-needles-laptops-and-other-rubbish-found-in-fogo-and-recycling-bins/ #Bins #burnie #Council #CouncilWaste #fogo #FourStrikes #garden #management #recycling #Waste
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Four strikes system comes in as needles, laptops and other rubbish found in FOGO and recycling bins https://www.allforgardening.com/1902416/four-strikes-system-comes-in-as-needles-laptops-and-other-rubbish-found-in-fogo-and-recycling-bins/ #Bins #burnie #Council #CouncilWaste #fogo #FourStrikes #garden #management #recycling #Waste
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: Garbage #trucks use hydraulic systems, robotic arms, and compactors to lift, crush, and haul tons of #waste.
Experts explain rear-load and side-load trucks, from the first automated model in 1969 to today’s electric fleets. Every truck repeats the collection process hundreds of times per route before heading to a landfill.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/how-garbage-trucks-work/
#wastemanagement #hydraulics #engineering #trash #rubbish #recycling #sanitation #machines #science #health
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: Garbage #trucks use hydraulic systems, robotic arms, and compactors to lift, crush, and haul tons of #waste.
Experts explain rear-load and side-load trucks, from the first automated model in 1969 to today’s electric fleets. Every truck repeats the collection process hundreds of times per route before heading to a landfill.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/how-garbage-trucks-work/
#wastemanagement #hydraulics #engineering #trash #rubbish #recycling #sanitation #machines #science #health
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.
This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) American general, US President (1953-61)
Speech (1953-04-16), “The Chance for Peace,” American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, DCMore about this quote: wist.info/eisenhower-dwight/56…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eisenhower #dwighteisenhower #budget #cost #defense #loss #nationaldefense #needy #priorities #spending #threat #tradeoff #war #waste #wastedeffort #weaponry
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.
This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) American general, US President (1953-61)
Speech (1953-04-16), “The Chance for Peace,” American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, DCMore about this quote: wist.info/eisenhower-dwight/56…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eisenhower #dwighteisenhower #budget #cost #defense #loss #nationaldefense #needy #priorities #spending #threat #tradeoff #war #waste #wastedeffort #weaponry
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Malaysia clamps down on toxic trade with total e-waste import ban https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/malaysia-clamps-down-on-toxic-trade-with-total-e-waste-import-ban/
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Malaysia clamps down on toxic trade with total e-waste import ban https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/malaysia-clamps-down-on-toxic-trade-with-total-e-waste-import-ban/
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ZDNet: 250 Eiffel Towers’ worth of waste: The AI boom’s toxic hardware problem. “Discarded electronics are the fastest-growing category of waste, and humans are on track to produce 82 million metric tons annually by 2030. But as the AI boom brings with it a wave of data centers packed with chips, servers, networking gear, storage devices, cables, and more, researchers estimate the turnover of […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/26/250-eiffel-towers-worth-of-waste-the-ai-booms-toxic-hardware-problem-zdnet/ -
ZDNet: 250 Eiffel Towers’ worth of waste: The AI boom’s toxic hardware problem. “Discarded electronics are the fastest-growing category of waste, and humans are on track to produce 82 million metric tons annually by 2030. But as the AI boom brings with it a wave of data centers packed with chips, servers, networking gear, storage devices, cables, and more, researchers estimate the turnover of […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/26/250-eiffel-towers-worth-of-waste-the-ai-booms-toxic-hardware-problem-zdnet/ -
Disposing bulky #waste in #Utrecht, #Netherlands: No car needed! Just hop on one of the many #bikesharing cargobikes and zoom down the beautiful bicycle paths straight to the #recycling center. If we ever move away from here, this infrastructure will be dearly missed! 🚲
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Disposing bulky #waste in #Utrecht, #Netherlands: No car needed! Just hop on one of the many #bikesharing cargobikes and zoom down the beautiful bicycle paths straight to the #recycling center. If we ever move away from here, this infrastructure will be dearly missed! 🚲
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McDonald's respects all of you.
#meme #memes #shitpost #shitposting #fastfood #mcdonalds #straw #syringe #waste #trash #garbage #environment #corporate
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McDonald's respects all of you.
#meme #memes #shitpost #shitposting #fastfood #mcdonalds #straw #syringe #waste #trash #garbage #environment #corporate
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40% of clothing bales arriving in Ghana are unsellable. Your donated clothes aren't on someone's back — they're in a global fibre processing pipeline.
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40% of clothing bales arriving in Ghana are unsellable. Your donated clothes aren't on someone's back — they're in a global fibre processing pipeline.
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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.
We all need to let them know: https://5calls.org
#Congress #MikeJohnson #JohnThune #House #Senate #USPol #Trump #War #Iran #China #DOD #DOJ #Corruption #NoKings #Resist #Protest #Democracy
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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.
We all need to let them know: https://5calls.org
#Congress #MikeJohnson #JohnThune #House #Senate #USPol #Trump #War #Iran #China #DOD #DOJ #Corruption #NoKings #Resist #Protest #Democracy
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Velké podniky už v EU nesmí likvidovat neprodané oblečení a obuv
https://ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/clanek/ekonomika/velke-podniky-uz-v-eu-nesmi-likvidovat-neprodane-obleceni-a-obuv-375736V Evropské unii v neděli vstupuje v platnost zákaz likvidace neprodaného oblečení a obuvi. Opatření je dalším z kroků EU ke snížení množství odpadu, píše server německé rozhlasové stanice Deutsche Welle. V EU se podle něj každoročně zlikvidují stovky tun oblečení, které se dlouho nedařilo prodat, mělo vadu nebo jej po zakoupení na internetu zákazníci vrátili.
Zákaz se vztahuje na velké podniky s více než 250 zaměstnanci a ročními tržbami přes 50 milionů eur (zhruba 1,2 miliardy korun). Podniky nyní musejí najít způsob, jak se zbožím, které dříve likvidovaly, naložit. Mezi možnosti patří prodej tohoto zboží se slevou či na jiných trzích nebo jeho věnování charitativním organizacím, píše Deutsche Welle.
Neprodané zboží budou moci firmy zlikvidovat pouze v případě, že bude nebezpečné, poškozené či padělané, nebo pokud ho odmítnou charitativní organizace. Opatření, které EU schválila před více než dvěma lety, se v roce 2030 rozšíří také na středně velké podniky.
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Velké podniky už v EU nesmí likvidovat neprodané oblečení a obuv
https://ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/clanek/ekonomika/velke-podniky-uz-v-eu-nesmi-likvidovat-neprodane-obleceni-a-obuv-375736V Evropské unii v neděli vstupuje v platnost zákaz likvidace neprodaného oblečení a obuvi. Opatření je dalším z kroků EU ke snížení množství odpadu, píše server německé rozhlasové stanice Deutsche Welle. V EU se podle něj každoročně zlikvidují stovky tun oblečení, které se dlouho nedařilo prodat, mělo vadu nebo jej po zakoupení na internetu zákazníci vrátili.
Zákaz se vztahuje na velké podniky s více než 250 zaměstnanci a ročními tržbami přes 50 milionů eur (zhruba 1,2 miliardy korun). Podniky nyní musejí najít způsob, jak se zbožím, které dříve likvidovaly, naložit. Mezi možnosti patří prodej tohoto zboží se slevou či na jiných trzích nebo jeho věnování charitativním organizacím, píše Deutsche Welle.
Neprodané zboží budou moci firmy zlikvidovat pouze v případě, že bude nebezpečné, poškozené či padělané, nebo pokud ho odmítnou charitativní organizace. Opatření, které EU schválila před více než dvěma lety, se v roce 2030 rozšíří také na středně velké podniky.
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#ai #noai #technology #climatechange #RenewableEnergy #waste #fucktechbros
I was thinking (oh no, here we go again 😀) about how much energy is required / used to create the artificial function of a thought, and compare that to how much energy is used by a trained human, or animal brain for that matter. I was also thinking about how much energy would be needed for even more complex models of thought processing as more and more useless data clogs every process. (1/5)
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#ai #noai #technology #climatechange #RenewableEnergy #waste #fucktechbros
I was thinking (oh no, here we go again 😀) about how much energy is required / used to create the artificial function of a thought, and compare that to how much energy is used by a trained human, or animal brain for that matter. I was also thinking about how much energy would be needed for even more complex models of thought processing as more and more useless data clogs every process. (1/5)
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A ban on destroying unsold clothes takes effect in the EU.
Under new rules to reduce waste, large companies across the European Union can no longer dispose of unsold clothes, accessories and footwear.
#Fashion #Waste #EU #Clothing #Footwear #Business #Sustainability #Environment
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A ban on destroying unsold clothes takes effect in the EU.
Under new rules to reduce waste, large companies across the European Union can no longer dispose of unsold clothes, accessories and footwear.
#Fashion #Waste #EU #Clothing #Footwear #Business #Sustainability #Environment
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WASTE - Beleuvenissen - Het Groot Verlof - #Leuven #Belgium - more at https://www.kurtjacobs.photography/Concerts/WASTE-Beleuvenissen-2026
#music #musicphotography #livemusic #concertphotography #concert #concertpics #musicphotographer #WASTE #wastebandbe
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WASTE - Beleuvenissen - Het Groot Verlof - #Leuven #Belgium - more at https://www.kurtjacobs.photography/Concerts/WASTE-Beleuvenissen-2026
#music #musicphotography #livemusic #concertphotography #concert #concertpics #musicphotographer #WASTE #wastebandbe
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London Underground users should know about toxic dust risk, whistleblower says
By Matthew WeaverFormer tube network cleaner says tribunal vindicated his health concerns, including about asbestos, that could affect public
#LondonUnderground #London #Industrialpolicy #Transport #Health #Asbestos #Waste #Environment #Society #UKnews #TheGuardian #MatthewWeaver
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London Underground users should know about toxic dust risk, whistleblower says https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/18/london-underground-passengers-should-know-about-toxic-dust-risks-whistleblower-says #LondonUnderground #London #IndustrialPolicy #Transport #Health #Asbestos #Waste #Environment #Society #UkNews
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London Underground users should know about toxic dust risk, whistleblower says https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/18/london-underground-passengers-should-know-about-toxic-dust-risks-whistleblower-says #LondonUnderground #London #IndustrialPolicy #Transport #Health #Asbestos #Waste #Environment #Society #UkNews
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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
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Finally finished my big tub of yogurt that "expired" last October. The factory seal wasn't breached til ~1 month ago, and it's taken me awhile to get it finished. It was fine. Not it's best, but fine. Been eating it with granola from the fridge I'm sure is long expired also, but I threw out the box.
Lesson:
Use sense and senses, not arbitrary numbers when analyzing food. It all lasts longer than stated; sometimes much longer. -
In France, they have issued a law that forbids supermarkets from throwing away food.
#France #Food #Waste #supermarkets
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/04/french-law-forbids-food-waste-by-supermarkets -
This one graphic is an indictment of American Health Care...
"The U.S. stands alone, far from its peers. We spend roughly twice as much as other western countries for mediocre results. We seem to be exceptionally bad at living longer lives by spending more on healthcare." (from the book I'm writing)
This is because we don't have an actual system. Just a cobbled together collection of public and private silos with lots of holes in between. Such a non-system is an invitation for waste, abuse, and outright fraud.
"American Exceptionalism" indeed!
#Healthcare #USA #Waste #Fraud #Abuse #AmericanExceptionalism #Data
