I'm glad they included this snippet in the article:

While recycling is one part of the solution to reducing Australia's waste footprint, RMIT sustainable development expert Usha Iyer-Raniga said it was time to consider systemic changes that would reduce the waste itself.

"You can't just rely on recycling," Professor Iyer-Raniga said.

"You want to be a society where eventually, you don't want to create waste."

It's not a call to action of: Buy more soft plastic for us to recycle! It should be: You can now trust us to recycle any soft plastic you have, but society needs to reduce production and consumption as well.
If this reduction is done successfully then the recycling plants will be in a weird spot of needing to plan to reduce throughput/capacity down the road.

But yeah, I'm also glad soft recycling is back and better.

So... can we see the pine cone figures, or what?

:)

Probably bought ahead of time, from China to save on tarrifs.

Following sports. Being a die hard sports fan is time consuming and stressful. Obviously betting on sports is an addiction people talk about now, but even tipping comps and fantasy football type leagues are things that rob you of time and energy.

"However, researchers found given participants were likely to slightly reduce their reliance on cars, it showed experiencing car-free living, even briefly, could help people break away from automobility."
I think this is an important secondary take away here. Reducing car use is still much better than continuing at current rate. (Similar to eating less meat vs going vegan cold turkey).
Owning a car does come with large sunk-costs tho - so you won't feel the full financial benefit from just reducing car use (still have to pay rego, insurance, maintenance etc.)

Yup. And the ability to feel nothing was a super power.

Be Kind Rewind is a quirky movie where they end up making these Mockbusters. Don't recommend if you don't like Jack Black. Do recommend if you like Mos Def.

Yep. We changed our home lightbulbs to LED, we got more efficient heating/cooling systems and appliances installed in our homes. (My gov provided incentives for these things). I thought it was to reduce our energy consumption and save us some cash on bills. But nup, turns out it just freed up energy to burn on LLM data centres.

"Yeah, that's right. I'm a NOOP!"
Not On Our Planet

But also kinda punk. Promoting de-googling on googles own platform.

I was there recently. So many cyclists and cargobikes. It was glorious. Even chanced upon a flashmob with weird and tall-bikes at one point.

I assume there will be questions... it was built from a cheap, small classical guitar to be something I could travel with~
The pickup you see is not currently wired up (dun worry I know it won't work with nylon strings - it's there if/when I wanna try steel strings.) There is a piezo pickup under the bridge at the moment. The strings route over the roller bridge, around another set of rollers and then to tuners - which is the headstock I chopped off the neck.
It's pretty quiet and gross, but also fun to play and work on for a laugh.

Yeah, thats true. I see that as general disrespect though, not a purely cyclist thing. Put that ebike guy in a lifted pickup truck and they'd be driving like a fuckhead too.

This was the info I was interested in.

Finely ground (espresso) coffee grounds were dried in the sun and then sifted. Then mixed with binders (xanthan gum and carboxymethyl cellulose powders) and water. These are printed in a modified consumer grade fdm 3d printer using a syringe instead of the hot end. The resulting material is claimed to be as strong as unreinforced concrete, but is biodegradable.

Blocked storm water drain puddle mode?

This is less to do with single-use plastics, but plastic is often a really good option from a functional POV. It doesn't conduct heat like metal, it doesn't break like glass/ceramics and has better moisture resistance than timber. (Not saying plastic couldn't be replaced a lot of the time, but some times it's a frustratingly good option).

In terms of complete single-use plastic replacement, I'm not sure, but would also be interested. I'd hope it's mostly possible.

I dunno, but driving thru the insanely rich neighbourhoods definitely depresses me out.

Tee Nuts are annoying coz there are also T Nuts, which are used in aluminium extrusion channels. And there's also Tea Nuts which are nuts you put in tea if you are low on iron.

Sports clubs and hobby clubs for sure. In Australia we have clubs called Men's* Sheds that are for things like woodworking, but also a place to talk about mental health - things like loneliness. (*I don't think they're all so exclusively Men's sheds these days).

I play disc golf and that sometime feels like a church haha. Trying tk convince people it's an awesome sport amd get them to try it feels like trying to convert someone 😂

AI feedback loops. Mmm yummy.