Environmental Fuckery By Industry

[Irrev-Black]

Is "artificial reef" a quaint way to say "fuckin' tons of waste with mercury, asbestos, lead, and radioactive stuff"?

Gippsland might find out.

https://theaimn.com/plan-to-dump-eight- ... gippsland/

[Irrev-Black]

Right to repair? Less of this Apple-style forced obsolescence?

And, of course, less stuff.

We're creating electronic waste almost five times faster than we're recycling it using documented methods, according to a United Nations report released on Wednesday.

And the economic impact is significant. While e-waste recycling has benefits estimated to include $23 billion of monetized value from avoided greenhouse gas emissions and $28 billion of recovered materials like gold, copper, and iron, it also comes at a cost – $10 billion associated with e-waste treatment and $78 billion of externalized costs to people and the environment.

Overall, this puts the net annual economic monetary cost of e-waste at $37 billion. And this is expected to reach $40 billion by 2030 if improvements in e-waste management and policies aren't made.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/21/ ... /?td=rt-3a

[Irrev-Black]

Methane: the one that hid it, did it?

https://cleantechnica.com/2024/05/03/fo ... atellites/

[Loki]

We don't need to see flares.

And flares are less of an issue than fugitive emissions, coz burning it destroys its greenhouse effect, apart from the extra heat and carbon of course.

Methane is readily detected with a spectrometer and it would be pretty hard to hide that signal.

Pretty sure they will have to try much harder to avoid hyperspectral scanners.

[Irrev-Black]

Drugs in critters... it's not Cocaine Bear, but pretty scary.

https://www.motherjones.com/environment ... mals-fish/