Ottawa friends: Does anyone know of a company that recycles trophies and medals? My adult children no longer feel that they need their sport trophies from their childhood, and they left them in my basement. I found a place in Kingston but I can't find one in Ottawa.
#recycle
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#Kerala fishermen up in arms against #DeepSeaMining proposal off #Kollam coast
March 22, 2025
"The fishermen in Kerala have already launched several protests against the proposed plan to open up the sea to private mining companies as part of the Union Government’s ‘Blue Economy’ initiative.
"All the fishermen’s associations stand united in their protests against this proposal, alleging that it would bring an end to the fisheries sector in the country, not only in the #ArabianSea but also in the #BayOfBengal.
“ 'The mining, according to the scientific report we have, can disturb the seabed and completely destroy fish spawning habitats. It can also release poisonous gases trapped on the #DeepSeaFloor, causing severe #environmental issues,' Kerala Minister for Fisheries, Saji Cherian, told PTI.
"He said that deep-sea mining requires huge investments and heavy machinery, meaning only #multinational #corporations will be involved, making these areas completely inaccessible to poor fishermen.
"The Kerala government, which is strongly opposing this project, passed a resolution in the Assembly urging the Centre to withdraw it.
"The Minister said the proposed site, off the Kollam shore in Kerala in the Arabian Sea, is very rich in marine resources and serves as a lifeline for fishermen from Kerala and other states.
“ 'We have a highly diverse and extensive fish population in this area. The mining will completely wipe out this habitat, severely affecting the livelihood of fishermen in our region,' Saji Cherian said."
#NoJobsOnADeadPlanet #OceansAreLife #MarineLife #DeepSeaMining #NoDeepSeaMining #DarkOxygen #LifeOnEarth #Extinction #Nodules #Greenwashing #CorporateColonialism #CorporatePolluters
#BatteryAlternatives #NoCobaltMining #RecycleCopper #RecycleCobalt #RecycleZinc #Recycle! #Ecocide #PlanetDestroyers #HumanGreed
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#NPR: The U.S. takes a step toward allowing #mining on the ocean floor, a fragile #ecosystem
by Julia Simon, April 25, 2025
"President #Trump signed an executive order Thursday aimed at making it easier for companies to mine the deep seafloor, saying it would create 'a robust domestic supply for critical minerals.'
"There is currently no commercial-scale deep-sea mining anywhere in the world. But companies have long eyed the ocean floor as a potential source of metals like nickel, cobalt, manganese and copper, which are used in batteries for electric vehicles and other technologies.
"The world has no rulebook for deep-sea mining. One company is pushing forward anyway
"These metals can be found in potato-sized nodules lying on the ocean floor. Many of the nodules are in the middle of the Pacific ocean, beyond the legal territory of individual countries.
"Thursday's order might circumvent ongoing international negotiations to regulate deep-sea mining.
"Those regions have traditionally been overseen by an international organization, the #InternationalSeabedAuthority (#ISA). The ISA has hosted talks for years to try to hammer out a rulebook to govern a potential seabed mining industry. The U.S. did not ratify the treaty that governs the seabed, and is not a voting member of the ISA, though in the past under previous administrations it has respected the ISA process.
"In his executive order, Trump instructed federal agencies to expedite the process for reviewing and issuing permits for mining on the seafloor in both U.S. and international territory. It will use a U.S. law from 1980, the "#DeepSeabed Hard Mineral Resources Act."
"Scientists and environmental groups condemned the order, arguing that opening the deep seabed for mining could disrupt important marine ecosystems, and damage the fishing industry.
" 'This is being planned on some of the least resilient #ecosystems on the planet,' says Douglas McCauley, professor of ocean science at the University of California Santa Barbara. 'It would have #catastrophic biological consequences.'
"Underwater mining can create plumes of sediment that could suffocate marine life, and degrade the #FoodWebs that fish depend on, McCauley says.
"There are also important questions about whether we actually need to be mining the seabed to get enough of these minerals for technologies like batteries, says Micah Ziegler, assistant professor of energy and chemical systems at Georgia Institute of Technology.
"While a couple of years ago researchers were concerned about the limitations of land-based mining for metals like cobalt and nickel, a variety of alternative #battery chemistries have been developed that might reduce the need for those elements, Ziegler says."
Read more:
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/25/nx-s1-5376482/trump-seabed-mining-executive-order
#OceansAreLife #MarineLife #DeepSeaMining #NoDeepSeaMining
#DarkOxygen #LifeOnEarth #Extinction #Nodules #Greenwashing #CorporateColonialism #CorporatePolluters #TrumpSucks #Idiocracy
#BatteryAlternatives #NoCobaltMining #RecycleCopper #RecycleCobalt #RecycleZinc #Recycle! #Ecocide #PlanetDestroyers #HumanGreed #NoJobsOnADeadPlanet
Backyard Sunset! In Australia, initiatives like the “Boomerang Bags” program encourage reusing fabric bags, reducing plastic bag use by 10 million annually.
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Backyard Sunset! In Australia, initiatives like the “Boomerang Bags” program encourage reusing fabric bags, reducing plastic bag use by 10 million annually.
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#EarthDay #Sustainability #Reuse #Recycle #Reduce
More about me & prints
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#EarthDay #Sustainability #Reuse #Recycle #Reduce
Construction Materials are chosen in the design process, maybe years before construction. What will even be available then?
How could architects & builders regularly incorporate large amounts of circular materials from deconstruction even if they wanted to?
A Redesign of design & Architecture is needed.
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#circulareconomy #sustainability #Architecture #reuse #recycling #sustainablefuture #deconstruction #recycle #constructionindustry
SpotifyRethinking Architecture for a Circular Construction IndustrySparks Sustainability · Episode
treasure it…(there’s only one)
#earthday #captainplanet #planetina #reduce #reuse #recycle #openartai #aiart #juggernautflux
model + prompt = [view in alt]
https://openart.ai/community/v2Ev1zw8XdXHCc1MUTgg
)Construction Materials are chosen in the design process, maybe years b4 construction. What will even be available then?
How could architects & builders incorporate large amounts of circular materials from deconstruction even if they wanted to?
A Redesign of design & Architecture is needed.
#circulareconomy #sustainability #Architecture #reuse #recycling #sustainablefuture #deconstruction #recycle #constructionindustry
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Je note tout de même ici d'autres projets de #reuse de ce matériel :
* Juicy Crumb a produit une carte custom (un peu chère) pour en faire une écran HDMI https://juicycrumb.com/product/docklite/?v=82a9e4d26595#imac-model
* pas mal de tutos existent pour driver la dalle avec une carte de remplacement
* les mises à jour macOS semblent possible si on fait "mentir" le matériel avec https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher si vous voulez rester sur l'écosystème propriétaire d'Apple
* usage de thunderbold pour faire 2ème écran
Octopus
Forks and spoons welded
Made in France
#handmade #octopus #sculpture #upcycling #recyclage #art #pieuvre #animal #junk #photo #photography #nature #metalwork #tentacle #marin #jazz #recyclé
Forks and spoons welded
Made in France
#handmade #octopus #sculpture #upcycling #recyclage #art #pieuvre #animal #junk #photo #photography #nature #metalwork #tentacle #marin #jazz #recyclé
#DIY #Electronics #recycle #earthweek
Most LED lightbulbs marked "9W" use LED chips with a forward voltage of ~14.2 volts and a current of 85 milliamps.
When an LED lightbulb turns "blinky" (fails, or is about to fail) the LEDs are usually perfectly fine, it's the driver chip that's cooked. LED lightbulbs are designed to purposely overheat, as to keep the demand for new bulbs steady. Thank Phillips for that waste.
If you cut in between each chip and pry them out of the aluminum PCB like a pizza, you have some very powerful LED's to use in anything from headlights to desk lamps. Scrape away the plastic coating on each side of the chip and solder away.
PS: don't look at the LED when you test them, they are vastly more powerful than I ever expected.
Mysterious Creatures Emerge from Recycled Materials in Sculptures by Spencer Hansen via Colossal [Shared]
Long-legged creatures don otherwordly masks in sculptures by Bali-based artist Spencer Hansen, whose work explores identity and connection through a cast of uncanny characters. Using primarily natural, found, and recycled materials like wood, metal, bone, plant fibers, and ceramic, he draws inspiration from surrounding environment and frequent travels. Originally from Idaho, he relocated to Bali where he built a workshop that houses studios and live-work space for a team of skilled artisans who help to bring the pieces to life.
Global Plastic Recycling Rate ‘Stagnant’ at 9%: Study https://www.ecowatch.com/global-plastic-recycling-rate.html
EcoWatch · Global Plastic Recycling Rate ‘Stagnant’ at 9%: Study
Film Review: Re-Cycle
.RX2 #ReCycle v2.0 sample format now importable into #Renoise #Chiptune #Demoscene #Module #Trackermusic #8bit #16bit #Patreon #Gumroad #Paketti
Tell your friends. Tell everyone. More coming,please support.
https://lackluster.gumroad.com/l/paketti
(also #REX #RX2 #Propellerheads #Polyend .PTI & alpha .SF2)
GumroadPaketti - A Framework / Firmware update for RenoisePaketti is a tool for Renoise, with hundreds and hundreds of features. I'm continually working on this, and this is pretty much just a way to support the project. Here's some feedback I've gotten from people about this tool.""It's like it's Renoise+""Your extension has so much to it. I was playing around with it the other day and I feel like I need to spend just a day to learn everything I can do with it. It's like Renoise+""Your tool is really well thought out - most well thought out Renoise tool I've come across actually. Functions I even didn't think about and it's already inside your tool. Speaking of dedication.""I was mostly in awe and started immediately imagining new ways to use renoise""This is by far the most thought out tool ever. Why is this not natively implemented?""every renoise user should know and use paketti, without it renoise is not so fun""got to be one of the most (if not the most) organized set of tools ive ever seen for Renoise.""I found Paketti to be the most versatile and flexible in its development direction. It has made Renoise very useful and enjoyable to use. Thank you.""you are essentially writing... a completely new framework over the engine.""I have no doubt that you are the most important person in the various Renoise Tools developers.""You RULE. Thanks for being so responsive ... and for the massive amount of work into creating this. Really is like Renoise+++""you are really doing what i wanted renoise to do in the first place"A very much work-in-progress manual for Paketti: https://esaruoho.github.io/paketti-manual/TODO: Make more videos highlighting the featuresSome Features of Paketti Paketti Phrase Init Settings (Dialog)This allows you to set your Phrase Preferences - i.e., when you use the Paketti -specific shortcut for creating or modifying current Phrase, the settings will be added. Paketti Theme Selector (Dialog)This has 507 Themes ingested inside Paketti, allowing you to pick a Theme at random, make it your favorite, and have a shortcut for loading a random theme from your Favorites - or randomizing one of the favorite themes from your Favorited list, at startup of Renoise Paketti Clean Render Selected Track or Group (shortcut)This functions as a Freeze & Flatten - but in a non-destructive way, a new track is added, the rendered sample is automatically added to the first row, so it immediately plays the rendered sample. The Track is named accordingly, the Instrument and Sample are named accordingly. And the original Track is muted and collapsed. There's also a user setting for bypassing the devices in Track DSP for the selected track that was rendered. Paketti Effect Column Command CheatSheet (Dialog) This shows all the Effect commands available in Renoise for the Pattern Editor It also provides sliders for Volume, Panning, Delay, Effect Parameter If you click on an effect command button, it is output to Selected Row / Selection in Pattern Randomize features for Randomizing Effect Parameter using Min/Max, or Switch (either Min or Max) Overwrite or don't overwrite current effect content Paketti Gater (Dialog) Volume Gating, Retrig Gating, Sample Backwards, Panning using either Volume Column, Effect Column or Panning Column Randomize all Gaters Paketti Randomize Devices / Plugins (Dialog / Shortcut) This allows for using a shortcut for randomizing selected device or selected plugin, or all devices in track, or all plugins in song. Multiple Randomize slots (user preset 1 to 5) with different percentages Paketti create Shortcuts & MidiMappings for Devices or PluginsThis allows for creating any shortcuts or midimappings for loading your preferred devices or Plugins Paketti Preferences You can set your settings for Loading Instruments (using a specifically created-for-Paketti macro XRNI instrument which has pitchbend, cutoff, resonance, overdrive, cutoff LFO Frequency, cutoff LFO Amp, parallel compression and pitchbend inertia already ready to go, with further Mono devices disabled (ready to be enabled) and an optional AHDSR envelope which can be toggled On / Off - and also a specific Filter type which you pick yourself You can set your Wipe&Slice settings (mathematical slicing of sample) And many more More to be added (this means: this documentation needs to be updated, and clarified further)Impulse Tracker shortcutsPaketti Sample Savers & Loaders KeyBindings / MidiMappingsPlugin/Device loaders (shortcuts/MidiMappings maker)