Published ! Our article explores strategic solutions to combat water pollution caused by plastics. With global plastic production at 330B tons/year, we need urgent action via bioplastics, biodegradation & policy reform.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52395-4_3

Sustainable technology requires rethinking our relationship with electronic devices:

The @RightToRepair movement is making progress securing legislation for repairable products
Modular phone designs like @Fairphone show electronics can be built to last
Repair cafés and @iFixit empower users to extend device lifespans

Environmental tech isn't just about energy—it's about consumption patterns too.
#RightToRepair #CircularEconomy #TechForGood

Willst du auch so eigene Chläber? Dann komm Sa 20.4.25 ins @humbug.club an die @slapmebaby4057 Stickerconvention! Designe vor Ort am Compi und drucke mit unserem Zebraprinter!

The EU targets clothes and furniture in a crackdown on wasteful consumerism.

Textiles, furniture, tires and mattresses will be subject to much stricter design standards to ensure they last longer, as the EU aims to stamp out wasteful consumption, the European Commission confirmed on Wednesday.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250416-the-eu-targets-clothes-and-furniture-in-a-crackdown-on-wasteful-consumerism?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

Deep-sea mining risks leads study to urge shift to circular solutions https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250414124214.htm

From Gadgets to Garbage

62 million metric tons of e-waste in 2022 — and only 22% was properly recycled. The rest? Landfills, illegal exports, or lost forever. It's about responsibility and sustainability.

Promote sustainable design + the Right to Repair
Buy reused and refurbished
Support ethical recycling

How do you approach this? Repairing more? Skipping upgrades? Buying refurbished?

#EWaste #Sustainability #CircularEconomy #RightToRepair #Recycle

https://blog.runbox.com/2025/04/from-gadgets-to-garbage-the-global-e-waste-crisis/

Wir feiern unseren 5. Geburtstag!  

Und du bist herzlich dazu eingeladen!

WANN: Sa 26.4.25, 15:00 - late
WO: Horburgstr. 105, 4057 Basel

Wir freuen uns auf dich! :))

@djlordsoft

Nebenströme nutzen, Kreisläufe schließen. In #BaWü bleiben pro Jahr 7,7 Mio. Tonnen landwirtschaftlicher Nebenprodukte ungenutzt. ReBioBW Factsheets & GIS-Tool helfen, dieses Potenzial zu heben und neue Geschäftsmodelle zu schaffen.
#Bioökonomie #Landwirtschaft, #Kreislaufwirtschaft, #CircularEconomy, #Nachhaltigkeit #UniHohenheim:

Pressemitteilung:https://sohub.io/d5vx

#Colorado - #Libraries and the ‘economy of sharing’

An ode to the palace of the people

By Kaylee Harter - Apr. 9, 2025

"Visit one of BPL’s #makerspaces, a feature that’s become a staple in many libraries, and you can use #3DPrinters, #looms, #LaserCutters, #ScreenPrinting equipment and more.

" 'It’s a collaborative learning environment,' Farnan says. 'We’re learning together. If you were to go into the makerspace today and ask, like, ‘I’m thinking about doing this,’ then they would say, ‘I don’t know how to do that, but let’s figure it out.’

" 'That is inherently resilient.'

"He recalls a blind artist who came in with a unique challenge: 'She wanted to be able to see her drawings.'

" 'They worked with her with 3D printers, with the laser cutters and that kind of thing, in order to transfer her drawings into dimensional objects, because they were abstractions, so that she could then see them with her fingers.'

"Despite the always expanding array of programming and services, the books themselves — and literacy for all ages — are ever important."

https://boulderweekly.com/special-editions/libraries-and-the-economy-of-sharing/

One for your Channel 7 and Sky News watching mates' [1].

https://michaelwest.com.au/forget-nuclear-australia-is-on-fast-lane-to-100pc-renewables-solar/

It doesn't matter how vehemently or often or long something is said, if it aint so it is not so.

Here somebody with an actual brain and the career path to use that capability, lays it out : AGAIN.

It will not make one Nostalgic Nationalistic Nutjob of Nope2Woke difference, but at least it validates the truth _one_ _more_ _time_.

[1] For increasingly generous interpretations of "friend" or even "fellow traveller". Heaven help you if your using the biological interpretation.

#Energy #Climate #Technology #Enginering #Economy #GreenTransition #CircularEconomy

NOstalgia, It just aint wot it used to be. :)

Make Your School @ Finkenwerder – junge Ideen für eine zirkuläre Zukunft!
30 Schüler*innen tüftelten 3 Tage lang an digitalen & nachhaltigen Hacks für ihre Schule – von Snackautomaten bis Anwesenheitstracker.

Ein starkes Beispiel dafür, wie Bildung, Technik & Circular Economy zusammenkommen. Danke Make Your School & Wissenschaft im Dialog!

Neues Leben im Torhaus am Museum der Arbeit!
In der Zukunftswerkstatt können junge Menschen jetzt mit 3D-Druck, Programmierung & Kreativität die Zukunft der Arbeit mitgestalten.

Ein wichtiger Ort für Hamburgs Weg zur Fab City: lokal, nachhaltig, offen für alle.

Using an old e-reader as a display for a single board computer

https://ponnuki.net/2012/09/kindleberry-pi/

#raspberrypi #sbc #kindle #ereader 14673889 #ebook #repurpose #repurposing #circularEconomy

Recycled cements drive down emissions without slacking on strength

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-03-recycled-cements-emissions-slacking-strength.html

#environmental and #CircularEconomy

The Finnish Environment Institute is hiring no less than 7 new #postdocs, 3 years guaranteed funding, to a great, fully bilingual (Finnish-English) workplace!

A great opportunity for great #AcademicWork !

https://www.syke.fi/en/about-us/news/sykes-postdoctoral-programmes-recruitment-continues-7-open-positions

Hey all #environmental and #CircularEconomy BlueSkyians! The Finnish Environment Institute is hiring no less than 7 new #postdocs, 3 years guaranteed funding, to a great, fully bilingual (Finnish-English) workplace! A great opportunity for great #AcademicWork ! www.syke.fi/en/about-us/...

Syke’s postdoctoral programme’...

Pop-Up Circular Hub – Veranstaltungen im April

Kreislaufwirtschaft im Fokus! In diesem Monat haben wir spannende Events, die sich mit nachhaltigem Bauen, Upcycling und der Zukunft unserer Städte beschäftigen. Sei dabei!

Hier könnt Ihr Euch für die Events anmelden: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/fab-city-hamburg-ev-106918973201

Here's the Ithaca Reuse Center where I bought the TV; reuse has three stores where you can get kitchenware, furniture, clothes, books, consumer electronics and all sorts of things. It's one thing my wife and I completely agree on. Behind that row of winter phase trees is Titus Towers, a senior housing development.

Instead of going to a Hands Off protest tomorrow I'm resisting consumerism & supporting our environment by donating lots of stuff to Zero Waste Tucson, a community-driven movement that aims to promote sustainable consumption & production practices. Donated items are reused/repaired/refurbished/resold/recycled, helping our circular economy.

https://www.tucsonzerowaste.com/