‘It gets your stomach churning’: the team wading through nappies to clean up Bali’s waterways https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/17/stomach-churning-team-wading-through-nappies-to-clean-up-bali-waterways?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Hats off to Sungai Watch.
This is the Bali I guess sun-seeking holidaymakers don’t see. Beyond the manicured hotel compounds, the real Bali, drowning in its own waste. One can only imagine what it must be like to live there.
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Protecting rivers
starting in Indonesia
#litterPicker #riverCleaning #WasteManagement #EndPlasticWaste
wondering if @askfedi knows if there are low-e-waste, low-plastic alternatives or repair options for electric toothbrushes that give the same good clean? #EndPlasticWaste #RightToRepair
(Asking because my sealed unit, non-user-serviceable Oral-B just flashed the red at the end of a run. Compatibility with that would be nice. Hacks to replace battery gleefully accepted; it's a Type 3756 F405 "Professional Care", with the rotary heads)
PepsiCo sued by New York state for plastic pollution https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67435329
Good
Consumer groups launch EU-wide complaint against major water bottle producers for greenwashing
“100% recyclable”: This ambiguous term depends on many factors such as the available infrastructure to collect material, the effectiveness of the sorting process, or appropriate recycling processes. The recycling rate for PET beverage bottle bodies is estimated to be only 55% in the EU and the chance of it becoming a bottle again around 30%.
Today, BEUC and member organisations from 13 countries have reported to EU authorities misleading commercial claims about the recyclability of their products by major drinking water bottle traders, such as Coca-Cola, Danone and Nestlé Waters/Nestlé. According to our analysis, such claims do not comply with the EU rules on unfair commercial practices. This report was carried out together with ClientEarth and ECOS - Environmental Coalition on Standards.
If every company that bangs out basically useless plastic crap stopped doing it, I wonder how much
a) FF we wouldn’t use
b) CO2 we’d avoid
c) plastic trash we’d avoid
Every year?
Seriously, does anyone know?
This surely has to be one of the simplest triple-whammy things we could do. Not the biggest, but pretty simple, no?
One Planet Jersey in action. ♻️ #EndPlasticWaste
Earth Day fit. 🌎
Helping to #EndPlasticWaste with the @[email protected] One Planet Kit!
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