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Degrowth please:

"Discarded clothes from UK brands dumped in protected Ghana wetlands"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/18/discarded-clothes-from-uk-brands-dumped-in-protected-ghana-wetlands

"I did not find the federal government to be rife with waste, fraud and abuse. I was expecting some more easy wins. I was hoping for opportunity to cut waste, fraud and abuse. And I do believe that there is a lot of waste. There's minimal amounts of fraud. And abuse, to me, feels relatively nonexistent."

"The government has been under sort of a magnifying glass for decades. I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was. This isn't to say that it can't be made more efficient — elimination of paper, elimination of faxing — but these aren't necessarily fraud, waste and abuse. These are just rooms to modernize and improve the U.S. federal government into the 21st century.

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/02/nx-s1-5417994/former-doge-engineer-shares-his-experience-working-for-the-cost-cutting-unit

#DOGE #Musk #Trump #GOP #Fraud #Waste #Abuse #NPR

#politics #trump #enviroment #pollution #enforcemnt #oil ##alt #EPA #industrialwaste #waste #fossilfuels

Heather Cox Richardson 6/17/2025
OIL Companies can Pollute at Will on State and Public Lands

Our cherished #WesternCivilization

"[T]he #EU should introduce EPR legislation to hold #fashion companies accountable for the end-of-life impact of their products."

"The fashion labels acknowledged that the industry faces challenges in processing textile #waste."

Aand… that's it. Move along folks, there's nothing more to see here. Just good ol' #capitalism giving a shit about the future of the planet.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/18/discarded-clothes-from-uk-brands-dumped-in-protected-ghana-wetlands

Images of cause ( #fastFashion ) & effect ( #garbage )

Discarded clothes from UK brands dumped in protected Ghana wetlands | Ghana | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/18/discarded-clothes-from-uk-brands-dumped-in-protected-ghana-wetlands

"UK consumers discard about 1.5m tonnes of used textiles every year. Many do not get recycled. About 730,000 tonnes a year are incinerated or go into landfills. Of the 650,000 tonnes sent to be reused and recycled, 420,000 – more than two-thirds – are exported. Ghana receives more than any other country."

#Waste #Capitalism #Colonialism

Discarded clothes from UK brands dumped in protected Ghana wetlands https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/18/discarded-clothes-from-uk-brands-dumped-in-protected-ghana-wetlands #Fashionindustry #Worldnews #Pollution #Africa #Ghana #Waste

🇹🇭"Sud Soi Team incls affected #community members & #NGOs to help #officials inspect factories.. Rarely does a month pass w/o reports of #illegal #waste shipments, #local communities complaining abt #pollution, or fires caused by #recycling factories, which r owned by primarily #Chinese #investors. #Ministry of #Industry has been known as a #mouthpiece of #industrialists & investors.. has emboldened investors to cut costs at te expense of the #environment & #publichealth"🧐
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/3051215/bribery-claim-needs-proof

There once was a queen of trash, you see
Who dumped waste so recklessly and carefree
But justice was served
To the waste she unnerved
Now she's jailed, no longer so free

#GuardianLimerick #Sweden #Waste #Environment #Europe #Pollution

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/17/swedish-queen-of-trash-jailed-for-dumping-hundreds-of-thousands-of-tons-of-toxic-waste

In Sweden, a queen of trash, they say,
Dumped waste in a criminal display.
Thousands of tonnes, oh my,
Now she's jailed, oh me, oh my,
May she learn from her mistakes, we pray.

#GuardianLimerick #Sweden #Waste #Environment #Europe #Pollution

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/17/swedish-queen-of-trash-jailed-for-dumping-hundreds-of-thousands-of-tons-of-toxic-waste

In Sweden, a trash queen did reign,
Dumped waste that caused much pain.
Now she's locked in a cell,
For her toxic waste hell,
Polluting is a crime she can't feign.

#GuardianLimerick #Sweden #Waste #Environment #Europe

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/17/swedish-queen-of-trash-jailed-for-dumping-hundreds-of-thousands-of-tons-of-toxic-waste

Swedish ‘queen of trash’ jailed for dumping hundreds of thousands of tons of toxic waste https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/17/swedish-queen-of-trash-jailed-for-dumping-hundreds-of-thousands-of-tons-of-toxic-waste #Environment #Sweden #Europe #Waste

There once was trash queen from Sweden,
Who dumped waste, a crime most unbidden,
Her deeds were so vile,
Caused harm for a mile,
Now in jail, justice has been ridden.

#GuardianLimerick #Sweden #Waste #Environment #Europe

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/17/swedish-queen-of-trash-jailed-for-dumping-hundreds-of-thousands-of-tons-of-toxic-waste

#Bureaucrat and #Billionaire: Inside #DOGE Chaotic #Takeover of #SocialSecurity. drama offers a case study in how #ElonMusk team sought 2 run critical #government agency through #misinformation #socialmedia blasts and how longtime employees responded. #economy #financialsystem #maga #false #narrative #misinformation #lies #corruption #fraud #waste #abuse all by #gop #congress #trump #musk #politics #political thousands of #federal #employees fired forced 2 retire #layoffs https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/politics/doge-social-security.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PU8.OnpY.Rf8ET2vJ9G4q

Ceramic floaters, lines and ceramic fishing net combine with real fishing net parts.
Mix-media sculpture project.

Exhibition CLAY/WORKS at the printworks in Dublin Castle with Ceramics Ireland - #ceramicsireland
July 2023

"Ghost gears"
Abandoned and lost fishing gears drifting on their own, entangled in rocks beached on the sea shores. Weapons in which thousands of creatures get trapped and die in an endless deadly cycle. And playing a major part in the plastic pollution in the oceans.
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#yelceramics #yelceramique #ceramic #ceramique #pottery #poterie #art #ghostgears #ghostgear #fishinggear #concept #plasticpollution #sea #ocean #oceanlife #peche #enginsdepechefantomes #beach #river #fishingnet #buoy #waste #pollution #traps #deadlytraps #clay #lsad #limerick #dublin #ireland #exhibition #theprintworks #dublincastle

Ceramic floaters, lines and ceramic fishing net combine with real fishing net parts displayed on a table.

Ceramic floaters, lines and ceramic fishing net combine with real fishing net parts.
Mix-media sculpture project.

"Ghost gears"
Abandoned and lost fishing gears drifting on their own, entangled in rocks beached on the sea shores. Weapons in which thousands of creatures get trapped and die in an endless deadly cycle. And playing a major part in the plastic pollution in the oceans.
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#yelceramics #yelceramique #ceramic #ceramique #pottery #poterie #art #ghostgears #ghostgear #fishinggear #concept #plasticpollution #sea #ocean #oceanlife #peche #enginsdepechefantomes #beach #river #fishingnet #buoy #waste #pollution #traps #deadlytraps #clay #lsad #limerick

Ceramic floaters, lines and ceramic fishing net combine with real fishing net parts laying on the concrete in a messy stack against a cement wall.

Ceramic floaters, lines and ceramic fishing net combine with real fishing net parts.
Mix-media sculpture project.

"Ghost gears"
Abandoned and lost fishing gears drifting on their own, entangled in rocks beached on the sea shores. Weapons in which thousands of creatures get trapped and die in an endless deadly cycle. And playing a major part in the plastic pollution in the oceans.
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#yelceramics #yelceramique #ceramic #ceramique #pottery #poterie #art #ghostgears #ghostgear #fishinggear #concept #plasticpollution #sea #ocean #oceanlife #peche #enginsdepechefantomes #beach #river #fishingnet #buoy #waste #pollution #traps #deadlytraps #clay #lsad #limerick

Ceramic floaters, lines and ceramic fishing net combine with real fishing net parts laying on the grass

Ceramic buoy and ceramic fishing net on a riverside like a waste.
Mix-media sculpture project.

"Ghost gears"
Abandoned and lost fishing gears drifting on their own, entangled in rocks beached on the sea shores. Weapons in which thousands of creatures get trapped and die in an endless deadly cycle. And playing a major part in the plastic pollution in the oceans.
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#yelceramics #yelceramique #ceramic #ceramique #pottery #poterie #art #ghostgears #ghostgear #fishinggear #concept #plasticpollution #sea #ocean #oceanlife #peche #enginsdepechefantomes #beach #river #fishingnet #buoy #waste #pollution #traps #deadlytraps #clay #lsad #limerick