How are you helping protect the planet this Earth Day?

Earth Day is a great chance to make a conscious action which will help protect our planet for the future.

Our team are taking #EarthAction today by donating unwanted clothing to their local clothing bank.

You can learn about the importance of protecting our planet in the @climatechange Channel.

If battery #recycling is required then why is it made so difficult?

They throw up all sorts of limits, restrictions, requirements, qualifications, barriers, red tape, et cetera, to recycling batteries.

Unless you're a big company.

Tom's Hardware: Yesterday, Western Digital announced that it has created a large-scale hard disk drive recycling program in concert with Microsoft and recycling-industry partners CMR (Critical Materials Recycling) and PedalPoint Recycling. The new process reclaims Rare Earth Oxides (REO) containing dysprosium, neodymium, and praseodymium from hard drives, along with aluminum, steel, gold, palladium, and copper. The REO reclamation takes place completely within the U.S. and those materials go back into the U.S. market.

Dubbed the Advanced Recycling and Rare Earth Material Capture Program, WD’s initiative has already saved 47,000 pounds worth of hard drives, SSDs, and caddies from landfills or less-effective recycling programs. WD was able to achieve a more than 90% reclaim rate for REE and an 80% rate for all of the shredded material.

The drives came from Microsoft’s U.S. data centers where they were first shredded and then sent to PedalPoint for sorting and processing. Magnets and steel were then sent to CMR, which uses its acid-free dissolution recycling (ADR) technology to extract the rare earth elements.

"Nappies, smartphone glass, and cigarette butts are piling up in Europe. How can we recycle them?"

#Europe #Recycling

https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/04/19/nappies-smartphone-glass-and-cigarette-butts-are-piling-up-in-europe-how-can-we-recycle-th

That's another scrap wood planter done, and both filled. We decided to use old IKEA bags for the liner, so I adjusted the dimensions of the new one to fit.

Planted out with various mints.

#recycling #gardening @gardening

What's happening in Decatur? (Links at end of post)

Thu Apr 24: Oakhurst Jazz Nights on the Solarium lawn. (free)
Thu Apr 24: Panel Discussion on "Climate, Resilience, and Justice: Shaping Decatur's Future" at Columbia Theological Seminary (free)
Fri Apr 25: Candlelight Concert at the Chapel on Sycamore ($, new performance space)
Sat Apr 26: Amplify Decatur Music Festival on the square (free).
Sat Apr 26: LiveThrive Kids Day (free)
Sat Apr 26: Black Girl Book Fair @ Brave and Kind books. (free?)
Sat Apr 26: Legacy Decatur Community day
Sun Apr 27: Atlanta Streets Alive (free; not in Decatur, but I'll be there with theATL.social)
Sun Apr 27: Music in the Garden, in Woodlands Gardens (free).
May 2-4: Decatur Arts Festival (free)

Links below, in same order as above:

https://visitdecaturga.com/events/?imgoing-event=oakhurst-jazz-nights-67b366a22cf5e671068d9a12

https://www.ctsnet.edu/events/climate-resilience-and-justice/

https://feverup.com/en/atlanta/venue/the-chapel-on-sycamore

https://www.amplifydecatur.org/

https://livethrive.org/kids-day/

https://decaturlegacypark.com/event/legacy-community-day/

https://visitdecaturga.com/events/?imgoing-event=black-girl-book-fair-atl-67fa0f3ce69565176984e2b9

https://www.atlantastreetsalive.org/

https://www.woodlandsgarden.org/music-in-the-garden/

https://en-gb.facebook.com/DecArtsFest

Recyclage à la française, ou comment être honnête sur le fait que tout déchet produit rejoindra la masse des polluants que l'humanité déverse sur le monde

Sorry its a facebook link but #Canadians need to see it. #Recycling Scams are real. https://m.facebook.com/reel/1007631864762952/?referral_source=external_deeplink&mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

A body was discovered on Friday inside a metal drum at a recycling company in the city of Yoshikawa, Saitama Prefecture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/20/japan/crime-legal/drum-body-saitama/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #saitama #japanesepolice #recycling

#goodnews #reuse #recycling #environment #NonProfit #entrepreneurs #LosAngeles #USA

Group Celebrates 20 Years of Steering Surplus Office Furniture Away from Landfill and into Communities

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/group-celebrates-20-years-of-steering-surplus-office-furniture-away-from-landfill-and-into-communities/

Kunststoff, Klimakiller Nr. 1. Panorama 3 berichtet, wie die Industrie nebulös mit einem Recyclingversprechen verschleiert, dass immer mehr Erdöl in Kunststoff verwandelt wird und das Klima und die Umwelt gefährdet, indem es die Meere verdreckt und verbrannt wird. https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/panorama/archiv/2025/Klimakiller-Plastik-Die-Luege-vom-Recycling,plastikluege102.html #Kunststoff #Recycling #Erdöl #fossil #Umwelt #Industrie #Klima #Klimakrise @BlumeEvolution

#oreo #glas … Gevonden bij de kringwinkel

#kringloop #tweedehands #secondhand #recycling

I love postapocalyptic movies because it shows the state of reduce, recycle, reuse that we should have now.

“Apple has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by more than 60 percent since 2015."

Goal to become carbon neutral across its entire footprint in the next five years.

Also:

- Use of 99% recycled rare earth elements in all magnets

- 99% recycled cobalt in all #Apple-designed batteries

"Customers are invited to recycle devices in-store with a special offer through May 16.”

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/04/apple-surpasses-60-percent-reduction-in-global-greenhouse-gas-emissions/

#EarthDay
#ClimateChange
#Recycling

Single-stream #recycling makes participating in recycling easy, but 15% to 25% of all the materials picked up from recycle bins ends up in landfills instead. An engineer explores potential solutions: https://buff.ly/iALiryp #EarthDay

Visy achieves 70% recycled glass in New Zealand bottles and jars https://www.diningandcooking.com/2023041/visy-achieves-70-recycled-glass-in-new-zealand-bottles-and-jars/ #glass #NewZealand #NewZealandWine #Recycling #Wine #WineFromNewZealand #WineOfNewZealand

Global Plastic Recycling Rate ‘Stagnant’ at 9%: Study https://www.ecowatch.com/global-plastic-recycling-rate.html

Quebec recycler shows what happens to scrap appliances left on the curb
A Chelsea, Que., woman is on a mission to keep recyclable appliances and material out of the landfill.
#recycling #waste #appliances #Quebec #Chelsea #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-chelsea-trash-collector-1.7511967?cmp=rss

Quebec recycler shows what happens to scrap appliances left on the curb
A Chelsea, Que., woman is on a mission to keep recyclable appliances and material out of the landfill.
#recycling #waste #appliances #Quebec #Chelsea #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-chelsea-trash-collector-1.7511967?cmp=rss