A productive Maker Sunday at Canberra Makerspace.

Featuring -

🔌 Harvesting electronic components for projects from old PCBs

🖨️ First experimental print on the Spaces' TAZ printer after a truly epic amount of work

🖨️ A nifty control knob for the laser cutter extraction fan

🖨️ Mounting a 3D printed Ryobi tool holder for improved workspace ergonomics

⛵ A visitor who wants to work on a beautiful wooden sailboat at the Space

#Canberra #MakeHackVoid #Makerspace #Hackerspace #ReduceReuseRecycle #3dprinting

Nice story of rescuing old infrastructure and growing the business.

https://youtu.be/zGNrjG_CyYI

#ReduceReuseRecycle

Glass bottles [sealed with plastic caps] found to contain more microplastics than plastic bottles

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-glass-bottles-microplastics-plastic.html

> Drinks including water, soda, beer and wine sold in glass bottles contain more microplastics than those in plastic bottles, according to a surprising study released by France's food safety agency Friday.

I wonder whether corks or rubber seals for canning jar could be a solution.

#plastics #microplastics #reduceReuseRecycle #ReduceRepairReuseRecycle #pollution #science

Recycling plasting is a joke. Reduce.

Recycled plastic can affect hormone systems https://www.gu.se/en/news/recycled-plastic-can-affect-hormone-systems

> A single pellet of recycled plastic can contain over 80 different chemicals. A new study with researchers from University of Gothenburg and Leipzig shows that recycled polyethylene plastic can leach chemicals into water causing impacts in the hormone systems and lipid metabolism of zebrafish larvae.

#plastic #ReduceRepairReuseRecycle #reduceReuseRecycle #recycle #science #pollution

Don't throw out all of your scraps! Many things you'd normally discard without thought can be composted and bring new life to our world! Things like:

- Vegetable peels
- Egg shells
- Fruit pits and cores
- Nazis
- Fascists
- Unbleached paper products

Let's make life better and more sustainable for everyone!

#LifeHacks #Environment #ReduceReuseRecycle #NoKings

An idea someone should steal, and ship me a nice block of cheese if you make a go of it:

Community-centred reuse depot for packaging and shipping materials. Rather than just streamed recycling of corrugated boxes, mailer envelopes & padding, which you then go buy more of from (*ptui*) Uline, divert the clean and undamaged product, sort and store it in a central locale, and let people pick up what they need and pay what they can. #circularEconomy #degrowth #reduceREUSErecycle

o wise fediverse:

I have this pewter plate that is engraved with a facsimile of a graduation invitation. My partner's father got it for her when she graduated college.

From some web searching, I'm pretty sure pewter has almost no value whatsoever (unless historical), and this probably even less because it's personalized.

But it feels weird to throw it in the trash. Maybe I should give it to the thrift store and let them decide whether to throw it out or not?

#reduceReuseRecycle #askFedi