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#waste

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Schauinsland

#India wants to tackle its mounting e-#waste problem. Global electronics companies say the cost is too high.
Daikin, Hitachi and Samsung are among manufacturers alarmed by new Indian government rules that require them to pay significantly more to recycle air conditioners, refrigerators, TVs and other appliances, court papers and lobbying letters show.
From Daikin to Samsung, companies fight Modi over #ewaste policy | Reuters
reuters.com/world/india/daikin

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Swaantje Güntzel
SEASCAPE I / Nordfrieslandmuseum Husum

This is the first work I produced within my ongoing series "SEASCAPES" in 2020.

Portrait staged in front of a seascape without title by Karl Rohwedder-Ruge (1865-1940), dated on the first third of the 20th century. The painting is part of the collection of Nordfriesland Museum. Nissenhaus Husum. The artist is surrounded by single use plastic items typically found in public space.

[Swaantje Güntzel, SEESTÜCK I / Nordfrieslandmuseum Husum, 2020, Diasec, 80 x 120 cm]

Foto: Henriette Pogoda

#art #conceptualart #contemporaryart #kunst #konzeptkunst #zeitgenössischekunst #nordfrieslandmuseum #husum #karlrohwedderruge #seestück #seestücke #seascape #seascapes #museum #collection #oilpainting #painting #paintings #northsea #nordsee #photography #fotografie #henriettepogoda #waste #marinedebris #littering #singleuseplastic #coffeetogo #takeaway #fastfood #müll #plasticbag #plastiktüte #plastikflasche #plasticbottle #swaantjeguentzel #swaantjegüntzel #strabd #beach #waves #wellen #einwegplastik #caprisonne #caprisun #durstlöscher #navydress #goldrahmen
#goldrahmen
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Alx 🐈

I'm convinced that the real innovation and the creativity necessary to survive the impending catastrophe will never come from places like Silicon Valley. It doesn't shine and it doesn't have world design conferences. It will come instead from the alleys of marketplaces, mostly (but not only) in the Global South.

India's repair and engineering culture, and Frankestein laptops

via @theverge

theverge.com/tech/639126/india

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The Verge · The rise of ‘Frankenstein’ laptops in New Delhi’s repair marketsBy Hanan Zaffar
#RightToRepair#Repair#EWaste
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shikhar

I have spent the last 2 years focusing on waste management, especially that of Electronic Waste—from the mining of the resources to the discarding of the commodities, and while we are well aware of the pattern of disparity between the over-consumption in the Global North and overproduction in the Global Majority parts of the world, the problems largely still exists. Who to blame, somebody is surely making profits from this trade deal.

Anthropocene is a (Poubelle)ocene.

Certain headlines, like the one below, always make me feel disgusted, knowing that the patterns of dreadful and atrocious colonial practices are still prevalent. I am so perplexed as to what design thinking hat to put on or what circular economy principles to explain the exporting of trash to their previous colonies.

Not only that, but in a recent survey commissioned by the Repair Campaign (repaircampaign.org/), more than 2,000 people in the UK found that 85% did not know that more than 3 million people had been forcibly shipped from Africa to the Caribbean by British enslavers. It also found 89% were unaware British merchants had enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years.

As Dr. Shashi Tharoor has mentioned various times, "And LOOT, a Hindi word which the Britishers took into their dictionaries as well as their habit" (Link below of the talk of Dr. Shashi Tharoor - Looking Back at the British Raj in India at the University of Edinburgh)

Sources -
1. bbc.com/news/articles/c14jy2dd
2. theguardian.com/world/2025/mar
3. youtu.be/OB5ykS-_-CI?si=iczPAn

#anthropocene#recycling#hoax
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Swaantje Güntzel
Napoli

Hand-painted porcelain plate showing the streetscape of Naples/Italy when the litter service was on strike.

[Swaantje Güntzel, Napoli, 2014, hand-painted porcelain, diameter: 19,9 cm]

The plate was painted by Heike Tropisch.

Foto: Swaantje Güntzel

#art #conceptualart #contemporaryart #kunst #konzeptkunst #zeitgenössischekunst #porcelain #handpainted #porzellanteller #neapel #naples #napoli #schmuckteller #goldrand #heiketropisch #wastemanagement #waste #müll
#mull
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N-gated Hacker News

In a shocking twist, The Verge discovers that Indians have figured out how to *gasp* repair things instead of throwing them away. 💡🔧 Meanwhile, the rest of the world continues its heroic fight to keep landfills fully stocked. 🌎🗑️
theverge.com/tech/639126/india #repairculture #sustainability #innovation #waste #reduction #landfillissues #HackerNews #ngated

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The Verge · The rise of ‘Frankenstein’ laptops in New Delhi’s repair marketsBy Hanan Zaffar
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Zzyzx/P

Such #parades used to be the hallmark of the #USSR and all other #tinpot #dictatorships around the world. What a twist of fate! And what a #waste. The same that the #criminals of #DOGE were supposed to expose! How much would be spent to organize this? And then to repair the #damage to the roads?

#government #USPolitics #impeach #OpposeFascism #opposeGOP #SaveTheRepublic #saveUSA #corruptGOP #CorruptToTheCore #CorruptAdministration #parade #dictator

yahoo.com/news/trump-planning-

Washington City Paper first reported on the parade, noting it will stretch almost 4 miles from the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., to the White House. An Army official confirmed the parade’s length to The Hill, and said that “there are plans for a parade that will involve the Army,” adding that nothing is yet solidified. The official noted that the Army had planned to celebrate its 250th anniversary with a “robust capability increase in what you would see in previous years.” Planning began last year and the event has since expanded, with the number of units participating now increased.
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Kyle Memoir 🍉

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.)

Grocery isle with old-style bags and cans of coffee. Lots of packaging but still mostly product.
Same grocery isle with new-style boxes of plastic single-use pods of coffee. Energy-and processing-wise, far more package than product.
#Keurig#Enshitification#environment
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Radical Anthropology

🌓Tuesday May 6 🌔 18:30 London time
ZOOM only with #ArbaBekteshi
'Romani and Egyptians in Albania's Informal Recycling Economy'

Arba writes:'The recycling work of Romani and Egyptians in Albania provides a window into the lives of the estimated 20 - 56 million waste pickers globally. These informal workers are responsible for more than half of plastic recycling globally, helping to curb greenhouse gases and reduce plastic pollution in oceans. Yet in most countries, these essential workers operate in legal gray areas, and in some places, like Albania, their labor is illegal. At present, only 10 - 18% of Albania’s municipal waste is collected for recycling.

'This reality prompts the need for a reimagining of waste. By framing garbage as a commons, societies can reconsider our collective sense of responsibility toward waste and the vulnerable communities who process and recycle trash. Forming new shared approaches to trash disposal and recycling could inform equitable and sustainable waste management policies worldwide.'

Arba Bekteshi is an urban anthropologist, cultural researcher, and artist. Her work focuses on changing urban landscapes, negotiations of public and private spaces, citizen agency, and understandings of immanence in documentary film. Bekteshi uses multimodal and sensory ethnography, psychogeography, cartography, and other forms of arts-based research to engage with the ethnographic field. She holds an M.A. in the anthropology of development and social transformation from the University of Sussex.

This is ZOOM only, ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak.
Everybody welcome.

Members of the Romani and Egyptian community approach waste skips in Tirana for informal -- and now illegal -- recycling of waste.
#RomaniandEgyptian#Albania#recycling
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m0bi ⁂

🔥 💻 🔥 Microsoft 14 października kończy wsparcie dla Windows 10 i namawia właścicieli około 240 milionów urządzeń, by je recyklingowali (wyrzucili?) i kupili nowe lapki czy pecetki. Nie da się zaktualizować do Windows 11 więc do kosza ...

No nie :)

Będzie wysyp fajnych maszyn dla Linuksa. Nie wyrzucaj, reinstaluj i używaj dalej.
To pójście ekosystemu Windows w stronę ekosystemu Androida. Producenci nie dostarczają nowej wersji OS, więc musisz kupić nowy telefon.
Jakimś dziwnym sposobem autorzy innych dystrybucji Android potrafią dostarczyć na te telefony nowe wersje. Przykładem LineageOs i wiele jego pochodnych, w tym mój ulubiony /e/Os.

Microsoft pozazdrościł producentom telefonów i próbuje tego samego z pecetami. Wyrzucić 3-letni fajny sprzęt i kupić nowy? Niedoczekanie.

Pamiętaj, kilkuletnie maszyny, czy to telefon, laptop czy blaszak, świetnie działają, można je naprawić, rozbudować, wymienić baterie, dodać ram czy szybszy dysk. Czy przeinstalować system operacyjny.

Sam na co dzień pracuję na laptopie, który ma ładnych kilka lat, dołożoną pamięć, nowy dysk, stację dokującą i 2 dodatkowe monitory. To samo telefony i tablety (mam ich kilka, ze względu na pracę). Drugi, zapasowy ThinkPad jest jeszcze starszy i świetnie działa (oba na linuksie). Podobnie serwer w domowym labie to starsza, świetna maszyna.

Nie daj się robić w balona.

#Repair #Reinstall #Reuse

Poczytasz o działaniach MS m. in. tu:
forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/20

ForbesMicrosoft Warns 240 Million Windows Users—Stop Using Your PCAll change for PC owners as deadline gets closer.
#Microsoft#Windows#waste
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ARCTIC YOGHURT
Intervention

“On December 2nd, 2021 at 12.04 a.m. I ate a yoghurt and threw the plastic pot into the Ofotfjord (Norway)”

[Swaantje Güntzel, Arctic Yoghurt, 2021, Intervention]

Foto: Jan Philip Scheibe

#art #conceptualart #contemporaryart #kunst #konzeptkunst #zeitgenössischekunst #intervention #performanceart #performance #marinedebris #waste #yoghurt #artcticyoghurt #plasticpollution #ofotfjord #norway #norwegen #reddress #fjord #swaantjeguentzel #swaantjegüntzel #womensart #womenartist
#womenartist
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