zerowaste

cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/9263490...

Article in French. Feel free to use a transaltor....

This is my first step-by-step post using our local movim microblog rather than imgur. I’ll upload it to imgur later as a backup but I’m seriously impressed with movim, very glad to have a noncorporate place for my projects. Let me know if there’s any issue with the link....

The tribe will also install a small biodigester, which will use bacteria to break down organic material in the absence of air — referred to as an anaerobic environment — and turn it to methane for cooking and fertilizer for the tribe’s community garden.

cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/14508843...

At the height of the pandemic, farmers were forced to dump millions of pounds of perfectly edible produce. Four years later, they still need help with their surpluses.

This is the machine translation (Argos Translate) of Lidl’s “zero waste” announcement:...

The article is in french. Feel free to use a translator.

One of my hobbies is fixing up old furniture to give away. This one was interesting because I was able to combine two pieces of damaged furniture to produce something decent....

My SO’s company handles food. Sometimes that food goes bad. In this case, they got a whole shipment of milk days away from its expiration date (at which point they can’t serve it, and local food pantries very sensibly won’t accept it). Luckily, they’re not committed to dumping it down the drain, and they’ll let us take...

cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/6224624...

Lots of potatoes, some bell peppers, strawberries, a leek, tomatoes, 3 apples (1 not pictured), and 1 apex predator. This food will give us apple pie, grits and curry with the tomatoes, stir fried peppers, strawberries in oatmeal, leak soup, and a bunch of meals from the potatoes....

Over the counter remedies are costly in Europe (€9 for a bottle of cough syrup). And like prescription drugs, they just slap an arbitrary expiration date on the pkg....

It is now mandatory but lots of people still don’t have access to a collect point. Some progress have been made in 2023 but it is far from being enough for the whole population to start separating compostables....

As I entered a building supply store someone was smashing all the ceramic tiles that were on the wall. He was about ¾ through them all. I said: hold on… I’ll take those sample tiles that are still on the wall. I can find a purpose for them even if each one is a different color. He said he could not justify to his boss...

This is probably the best use of Christmas trees (though it’s up for debate whether it’s a good idea to cut down spruce trees to begin with)....

I love wrapping Christmas presents. But I haven’t bought wrapping paper in over a decade. Even before I found zerowaste as a concept, I enjoyed the thrift and challenge of reusing old paper, working around tears, tape, and crinkles. I’ve always been kinda weird so my family went along with it, until it’s now part of our...

Fish skin is being sterilized and used for skin grafts on burn victims in #Brazil and #Colombia (on both human and non-human animals). It’s superior to gauze and ointment. IIRC, pig skin was used at one point. Apparently fish skin is better at sealing moisture in?...

My mother-in-law made these from her mother’s bottle collection. The bottles were found near old cellar holes- they were discarded by the people who used to live there. We think they’re somewhere around one hundred years old. Cleaned up, they make a beautiful display for plant cuttings!

This is a quick one, not an impressive repair, but maybe a nice demonstration of the perks of keeping stuff until its useful. I found a multi-socket extension cord/usb charger while digging through ewaste (I fix up laptops and give the stuff I find away on my local.Buy Nothing -type group)....

I saw a street market vendor with a pile of ~20 or so old TomToms. The price: 50¢ each, must buy in multiples of 2....

I’ve been kicked out of local junkyards ½ dozen times or so now. It’s a tricky game of trying to reach the waste pile when no one is looking, and also seeing who is on duty in hopes of at least ensuring that the same person doesn’t experience the pattern of kicking you out multiple times. Perhaps they would get aggressive...