Tesco's Laser-Etched Avocados to Save on Packaging Waste - Core77 ( www.core77.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16216407...
Operation "CleanUp" for less litter in Wallonia is 10 years old ( www.rtbf.be )
Article in French. Feel free to use a transaltor....
Picture frame made from salvaged wood ( movim.slrpnk.net )
This is my first step-by-step post using our local movim microblog rather than imgur. I'll upload it to imgur later as a backup but I'm seriously impressed with movim, very glad to have a noncorporate place for my projects. Let me know if there's any issue with the link....
Umatilla tribes to launch food waste reduction project in northeast Oregon reservation ( www.opb.org )
The tribe will also install a small biodigester, which will use bacteria to break down organic material in the absence of air — referred to as an anaerobic environment — and turn it to methane for cooking and fertilizer for the tribe’s community garden.
Pops’s Great Big Mutual Aid Masterpost - a list of affinity groups, buy nothings, and other orgs to coordinate sharing resources instead of wasting them ( www.tumblr.com )
The Free Store Project ( thefreestoreproject.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/14508843...
Farmers Don’t Want to Throw Away Food | Ambrook Research ( ambrook.com )
At the height of the pandemic, farmers were forced to dump millions of pounds of perfectly edible produce. Four years later, they still need help with their surpluses.
Lidl’s “zero waste” program is a good idea, but inconsistently implemented ( corporate.lidl.be )
This is the machine translation (Argos Translate) of Lidl’s “zero waste” announcement:...
Around 26% of toys bought at Christmas are neglected by the end of January, and 40% will be thrown out within the first 3 months of being unwrapped. Combined weight of electronic toys comes to 3.2b kg ( environmentjournal.online )
Waste trafficking between Belgium and France: up to five years in prison for the nine men involved - France Bleu - Trafic de déchets entre la Belgique et la France ( www.francebleu.fr )
The article is in french. Feel free to use a translator.
Mid-Century Desk Restoration ( imgur.com )
One of my hobbies is fixing up old furniture to give away. This one was interesting because I was able to combine two pieces of damaged furniture to produce something decent....
We turned 5 1/2 gallons of expired milk into Farmer's Cheese (Tvorog) ( imgur.com )
My SO's company handles food. Sometimes that food goes bad. In this case, they got a whole shipment of milk days away from its expiration date (at which point they can't serve it, and local food pantries very sensibly won't accept it). Luckily, they're not committed to dumping it down the drain, and they'll let us take it....
19 herbs, spices, sweeteners, and acids that make your food last longer ( web.archive.org )
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/6224624...
France mandates separating food waste for the environment (since first january) ( www.euronews.com )
It is now mandatory but lots of people still don't have access to a collect point. Some progress have been made in 2023 but it is far from being enough for the whole population to start separating compostables....
(Sweden) Christmas tree wood used to build world's tallest wooden wind turbine ( www.envirolink.org )
This is probably the best use of Christmas trees (though it’s up for debate whether it’s a good idea to cut down spruce trees to begin with)....
Fancy extension cord repaired with an old plug ( imgur.com )
This is a quick one, not an impressive repair, but maybe a nice demonstration of the perks of keeping stuff until its useful. I found a multi-socket extension cord/usb charger while digging through ewaste (I fix up laptops and give the stuff I find away on my local.Buy Nothing -type group)....
Using end-of-life photovoltaic panels as building material ( www.pv-magazine.com )
Things I've made from old Christmas Trees Part 1: Koroks ( imgur.com )
If you've seen any of my previous posts here, you may have noticed that I enjoy woodworking. I’m also very sentimental, so I save our Christmas trees after we take them down, dry them, strip the branches, and keep the trunks for future projects. I think it’s nice to have that bit of story behind something you make....
Shoe rack made from salvaged lumber ( imgur.com )
This one was scratch-built as a gift. They wanted a shoe rack and sent me some links of examples for sale on amazon. The designs weren’t consistent, so I took what I felt were good features from each and built one from lumber I had....
Plastic Owl necklace made from recycled HDPE (mold carved from wood scraps) ( imgur.com )
This was a kind of odd project, but I think it’ll fit. Back when I was researching ways to reuse plastic from 3d-printers, I ran across a thread discussing HDPE, turning plastic bags (if you can find only filmed HDPE ones) into printer filament through something like a filastruder, and that got me thinking about milk jugs....
How to transform plastic "waste" into a bottle brick ( www.shareable.net )
