#what is zero waste?

[diet-cokette]

kind of hate actual lifestyle movements that get co-opted into an aesthetic. like. minimalism, zero-waste, veganism, witchcraft, etc. they all are basically free ways to live life more simply. but all these corporations and influencers co-opted the movements and made them fucking aesthetics to be packaged and sold.

only buying what you need/really want is minimalism, but no, you need to make your house looked stripped down and ugly and beige to be a True Minimalist. a PBJ is vegan. but no, you need sunflower seed butter and special chia seed jam and sprouted bread to be a True Vegan. re-using your plastic tupperware grandma gave you is literally zero-waste, but no, you need NO PLASTIC WHATSOEVER OR YOULL GO TO ZERO WASTE HELL. Most witchcraft spells can be used with items from around the house, but no you need like 30 crystals, exotic herbs, and several tarot card sets to be a True Witch.

Honestly, it disgusts me. The whole point of these lifestyles is to be anti-consumerist, anti-status quo, anti-industrial. The whole point is to be pro-independence, pro-earth, pro-humanity, pro-animal. But regardless, the capitalist greed machine never stops. Shouldn't be surprised because even holy days like Christmas or Samhain (Halloween) they make into a marketplace.

[swarmofabout1000bees]

We know Stan also had poor eye sight growing up but what if him not wearing glasses as a child is the whole reason he never made it very far academically

[septimusmoonlight]

You doing ok?

hi

[rileys-battlecats]

was trying to figure out why I feel so Wrong rn and I think it's because I didn't follow my usual daily routine like At All and now my brain is freaking out. woke up at a vastly different time, had entirely different tasks throughout the day, took a nap at a weird time (to make up for the fact I had about 3 hours of sleep last night), zero human contact for the past 15 hours, and ate different food from usual (various leftovers from social events/thanksgiving, instead of cooking for myself like normal). and before I really realized that these were all things that were Bad For My Brain I was just wandering around my house like "why do I feel like garbage?? I've literally been outside so much today my brain should be happy"

ANYWAY here's to me not remembering I have issues with unstructured living because my days have been so similar for the past 4ish years that I straight up Forgot that things being too different too fast makes me crazy ✌️

[jrueships]

' you throw Such a Friendly Balllll 🥰🥰'

[iamthelegman]

Stupidly rewatched the last scene of 7x09, and the absolute waste of that amazing cliffhanger will never not piss me off.

[luc1ferian]

Okay what if Fordthur and Fordpher met.

[rubbishraven]

ideas for reducing my waste in 2025

using what I have!

reusable bags, reusable produce bags, using plastic free packaging when possible, reusing items for art or in my home, being selective when purchasing new items (will I actually use it?), eco bricking!, and composting.

[pack-the-pack]

There will come a day when people that aren't into A/B/O will find my "omegaverse slurs" post and realise they're not real. That they're for fictional people, in a fictional world, and have nothing to do with real-life-humans. Like, at all. And that their usage is for fictional usage only, and not meant to target any one group (not even misce people).

And that most importantly they're not framed as a good thing to use? They're meant to be used in unfavorable depictions of characters and societies in fanfiction. Not as cool hip-with-the-youth slang lmao.

This day is still far into the wishful thinking time-space though. One day, however, we may reach that level of awareness.

[cienie-isengardu]

When Liu Kang says "capture Shang Tsung"

and Bi-Han is "Decapitation then"

[mistress-of-malevolence]

...And if you're gonna call me a bitch, you better put dumb in front of it, because guess who bought a bottle of "melatonin" from the pharmacy after staring at the shelf for actually 5 minutes trying to decide what dose to get only realizing several hours later that it wasn't melatonin, but magnesium AFTER swallowing a capsule and not even from the taste but from taking a second to READ THE FUCKING LABEL TWICE.

*points thumbs at myself* this girllll

[hobbithoes]

all my old “empty” weedcarts I rotate around when I run out of my current 😭😭

[mercutiotakethewheel]

everytime i rewatch black sails, i find myself like vane more and more ngl. the first season really tries hard to trick you into thinking he’s just unnecessarily, banally, and uncompellingly an asshole (in the overwhelmingly compelling asshole show), whose one redeeming feature is that he’s kinda pathetic too. but geez s2 really nails home everytime that hes the best and the coolest and the most honest (maybe even most compassionate) of the mcs up until this point, barring anne of course. and on top of that i actually kind of think he has the best pre-s3 speeches. like obvs s4 flint is yknow s4 flint. and s3 max is so insane i actually cant handle it. but oh my god charles vane’s letter and his fuck your legitimacy eleanor speech and his hanging speech are so good. and fuck what i said earlier isnt even true. bc his s1 speech while hes looking in the eyes of the little boy he used to be is actually like the bestest. like fuck ok. charles vane is the best actually. #1 anarchist boy. 10/10 would want him in my commune. hed point blank refuse to help with the dishes tho so 😬.

[fortunekookie07]

I swear this man failed on purpose!! What master? He wouldn't even let me take a turn either. There was a new color I don't have!! He kept going for JUST one that you can't get too.

Rafayel give me back my free turn today! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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Rafayel has officially redeemed himself! He caught Steamy Birb for me. Just when I thought this one had escaped me yesterday. A second chance!

[iamthepulta]

The Twelve Principles of Circular Hydrometallurgy, (Binneman & Jones, 2023) are:

The goal is, essentially, that if you have an "ore" of a laptop, you'd be able to 'extract' and separate the gold, cobalt, copper, thallium, zinc, etc by exploiting their physical and chemical properties, with minimal waste products and minimal harm. The process is continuous, and most of the reagents in the vats can be reused, or don't harm the system.

For copper, we separate sulfides from unwanted minerals by exploiting their hydrophobic surface. Then they're converted into a CuSO4 solution that is purified, and then we're able to add electricity to the system to get copper to drop out of solution in a usable form (native copper).

So I think for this essay/location, I'm going to pick Reduce Chemical Diversity, because according to the diagram here, they actually did a pretty good job of only using hydroxide additives? It looks very simple and interesting. I'll also do Use Benign Chemicals because the mill is right next to the Great Lakes and I'm curious if there are problems there. I'll also do Maximize Mass/Energy etc because that's easy fucking fruit. I don't know why that's in this circle. It bugs me.

Preventing Waste is also easy fruit, and combine circular hydrometallurgy with Zero Waste Mining which is an interesting topic, but I hate how the authors of this paper discussed it.

[thrumbolt]

People be like 'lmao not even SJM likes Tamlin, he will never be relevant again' like....so? SJM can kill him off and make Feyre and Rhys use his wolf pelt as a blanket, this has like zero bearing on me liking or investing time on a character lmao

This obsession with canon is so funny to me. Have y'all never liked a side character that beefed it early on or just isn't as relevant to the plot? That's what makes creating fanworks for them so fun! Live a little!