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A Tailor's Guide to Thrifting the Perfect Fit | Bernadette Banner [25:11]

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What should I store in a 1 Gallon (3.7 liter) Pickle Jar?

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Two weeks ago I bought a gallon of pickles, because I thought: Oh, that'll last me a while and its only $7 and I can use the jar for something after. It did not last me a while, but I can still use the jar IG. The only remaining decision is what for? My thought is to store beans in it (so that the beans don't have to be stored up high to be away from mice and so I can do a custom blend more easily, and then if I got a second gallon jar (of pickles or otherwise) I could use that as a dedicated bean soaking vessel, which would make it easier to remember to get beans soaking) or use it for making/storing lemonade (tight sealing lid makes the mixing easier, I can just shake it.) But I wasn't just going to commit to something without asking for recommendations.

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Looking for an online market place for used clothing (US)

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I am in the market for a denim jacket or vest. I checked the three thrift stores in town. Only one even had a men's section. Nothing on ebay was used. Found a couple i liked on depop, Butt wanted to see what other market places exist.

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Rice scientists pioneer method to tackle ‘forever chemicals’ | New process upcycles hazardous chemicals, ‘transforms waste into a resource’

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Tunisian startup turns olive waste into clean energy

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In a northern Tunisian olive grove, Yassine Khelifi's small workshop hums as a large machine turns olive waste into a valuable energy source in a country heavily reliant on imported fuel.

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Introducing Japan’s First Zero-Waste Town

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The tiny municipality of Kamikatsu achieved an 81% recycling rate in 2016. Can it serve as a model of sustainable living for the world?

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is there any good way to put an extremely-flaking pleather jacket back into service?

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The image shows a close up of a pleather jacket with most of the shiny fake leather coating peeled off

I've got a coat I wore every winter for like eight years but didn't use this fall because a rain of macroplastics would follow me wherever I go. I can strip the pleather, flaking-paint material off to replace it with something but the fabric underneath is sort of thin and stretchy so I'd need to find something that'll help seal it against wind and rain again. I know they sell pleather paint but reviews said it's short lived or meant for patching lesser damage. It's probably a long shot but is there another option for doing the whole outside of the coat?

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DIY "infinity contrast" TV - with 100% recycled parts | DIY Perks [18:23]

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Shoutout to the Beyond Plastics team!

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Mentioned in the article is a stunt by Beyond Plastics whereby they put GPS trackers in plastic Starbucks cups to see how many actually went to recycling centers. 32 out of 36 went straight to landfill.

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Reduce Reuse Replace Capitalism

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Salvage Any Machine Like a Pro - Determine what's worth saving, and how to organize salvaged parts

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Compostable dishes vs washing dishes

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Many cafés and fast food places these days provide disposable dishes and cutlery when you're eating in. This used to infuriate me, but it seems to be improving slightly now as the trend has moved towards using compostable dishes instead of plastic ones.

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Waste shouldn't enter our homes in the first place

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The fact that it's the consumer's responsibility to sort their waste and to try and minimise its impact on the environment in the first place is completely wrong to me.

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Zerowaste Approach to Common 'Disposables'

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'Disposables' isn't a perfect term, but essentially I refer to things such as underwear, toilet paper, tissues, and other such things that tend to have a lifespan of either one use, or one person.

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Save your Styrofoam to make napalm. And no, napalm isn't what you think.

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First off, homemade napalm is in no way illegal, nor does it explode. You've watched too many Vietnam movies. What it *does* do is burn. Forever. More on campfires to come.

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I managed to rescue those pretty much dead orchids

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Here's my original post on Feddit.org, a german instance: https://photon.slrpnk.net/post/17757233

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Zero-wasting the cold: Does anyone ever freeze blocks of ice outside in the winter and let them defrost in the fridge/freezer?

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Curious if this would have any noticeable energy savings. Basically thinking of taking old semi-disposable plastic containers (the ones that like deli meat, butter, etc come in), freezing them outdoors, and letting them defrost (absorb heat) in the fridge/freezer. Basically back to the "ice box" model.

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Common E-Waste that can be repurposed?

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I'm in the process of setting up an e-waste bin in my community, but it is separate from the general e-trash bin. I want the sign on it to request specific things that can be useful and repurposed without an insane amount of effort.

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Looking for some (re-)use cases for older Android smartphones

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Up until a few days ago, I've had a Google Pixel 5.

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My sewing group makes reusable produce bags - cutting back on plastic and textile waste

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We meet every month or two to sew the bags out of donated fabric, and give them out at a local farmers’ market

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Resurrect your old Android phone - aggregated list of 1100+ devices and what OS you can install on them

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A small project to help out anyone trying to keep their old devices functional.

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Way to reduce E-Waste

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Something I've been working on recently is collecting old and unused laptops from various people I know. Sometimes they're shitty Chromebooks that can barely be used but sometimes they're still perfectly good and recent laptops and people just got bored of them and decided to upgrade for whatever reason. I then put Linux on these laptops (even the shitty chromebooks) and distribute them to people at my college who need one.

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Don't buy a Christmas tree, get a houseplant instead!

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I hate Christmas trees with passion.

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Tips for disposing of fallen leaves

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My mom was complaining that the city has limits on how many leaves that they'll pick up, and she's got bags and bags of leaves stuffed into black garbage bags. This seems like a problem that should have some kind of backyard solution.

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Making Fiberboard Speakers From Clothing Waste | The Or Foundation

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Recyclable materials

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This may be a stupid idea, but to my knowledge metals is are some of the best materials when it comes to being easily recyclable.

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Cups tossed in recycling bins at Massachusetts Starbucks tracked to incinerators, Alabama landfill

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I wasn't sure the best community on slrpnk to post this; but this one seemed pretty applicable.

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I just realized recently that our entire entertainment system is reclaimed ewaste

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The image shows an older flat screen TV with the keyboard from a laptop tucked under it and a trackball mouse in front.

We recently switched to using a Linux Mint laptop with an adblocker for our streaming (while also cancelling a bunch of services). A friend at the recycling center set it aside for me - the screen was irreparably smashed but it was otherwise quite a nice little laptop. Replacement screens were too expensive so I carefully removed the broken one entirely so it'd default to the HDMI port and then set it up as a quick media center (we watch a lot of YouTube and the ads were driving me crazy, I might switch to a more purpose-built OS eventually). The TV is one I pulled from an ewaste bin to replace my previous ewaste TV after it finally gave up. It has a thin line through one edge of the screen occasionally but is otherwise fine. I also recently found a perfectly good wireless trackball mouse and a Bluetooth keyboard in the same bin where I got the TV (came with that other mouse). The bin even supplied HDMI cables. The whole thing is perched on a particle board TV stand I found like a decade ago when the college kids move out.

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The hero we all need.

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If I live in an apartment, how can I put my food waste to compost?

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Hey all,

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Is reheating unpopped popcorn kernels foodsafe?

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Hey all,

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Guy makes “dodgy e-bike” from 130 used vapes to make point about e-waste

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Anyone stock-piling broken electronics, waiting for a right to repair?

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I’ve been stock-piling electronics that either people throw away, or things I bought 2nd-hand only to find they are broken.

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How to tell if a pallet is safe to reuse, such as if it has been exposed or treated to toxic chemicals • 1001 Pallets

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What to do with fuel-burning cars -- convert them?

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The avg. age of a car bought in Africa at the time of purchase is 21 years old. All these people buying EVs think they are taking a gas-burner off the road. But in fact cars do not get thrown away. They get shipped to Africa where they live on and continue to emit GHG for decades longer.

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Perfectly good LCDs are getting tossed. What about large flat screen TVs? Any fellow dumpster divers testing them? Is it designed obsolescence?

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In the past few years I have salvaged 4 LCD screens from curbs. All of them function without defect. I have no idea why people are tossing them out. One of the 4 was perhaps tossed due to size (it was about the size of a laptop screen). But the other 3 are a decent size. Most of them even have DVI connectors. I think one of the three only has a VGA connector, so perhaps the owner did not know that could be adapted.

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The enormous scale of global food waste.

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publication croisée depuis : feddit.org/post/3142575

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South Korea recycles 98% of its food waste. What can it teach the world?

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Archive link

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Wool Dryer Balls

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The art of recycling/repurposing broken-up concrete (sometimes apparently called 'urbanite')

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I stumbled onto this article while working on a photobash of a solarpunk scene. I think it does a good job of explaining the concept but there seems to be something wrong with its certificates, which might throw an error in your web browser. https://nwedible.com/urbanite-broken-concrete-retaining-wall-as-a-garden-feature/

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“City Experiments with Reusable Cups at Starbucks, Taco Bell and 30 Other Restaurants–with Return Bins all over town”

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Around 50 billion disposable drink cups are used every year in the US, but in the city of Petaluma, we will see if Americans have the discipline to reduce this footprint.

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I learned to crochet with plastic bags!

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I saw a video about ten years ago on crocheting with plarn (plastic bag yarn) and I thought it was such a neat idea. There was just one problem: I didn't know how to crochet. So, I started hoarding all my plastic bags (even more than I already was) thinking, "Oh, I'll learn how to crochet one day!" I finally learned to crochet a few weeks ago and now I'm working my way through my massive bag stash. I left the tail ends on and tried to tie them into decorations so I wouldn't waste any of the plastic.

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How to live without plastics for a month, according to the founder of a global movement

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Plastic Free July is upon us! Rebecca Prince-Ruiz, founder of Plastic Free July, encourages people to take the challenge with friends, start small and keep a “plastic-free kit” on hand.

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Using broccoli stems as pickles

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After eating the last pickle save the jar of pickle juice. Then when a broccoli stem becomes available cut the tough outer skin off, chop it up and toss it in the pickle juice. Works well. They reach a taste that’s very close what the pickles tasted like. After 2 or 3 cycles of that the pickle juice starts losing its strong punch. Adding vinegar and a sweetener can help at that point if you don’t have more pickle juice by then.

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Tesco's Laser-Etched Avocados to Save on Packaging Waste - Core77

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I'm sharing this because any reduction in unnecessary packaging waste is good for the planet - and because I think laser-etching avocados is funny. 🙂

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