#reuse and refill

[beingjellybeans]

Reuse & Refill: Solving the plastic crisis in the Philippines

Imagine a bustling Filipino market, where the stalls are brimming with fresh produce and vendors call out prices in a lively chorus, but what’s noticeably missing in this scene is the crinkle of plastic packaging. Instead, shoppers carry reusable bayongs, reminiscent of a time when environmental responsibility was simply a way of life. This glimpse into a sustainable future isn’t just wishful…

[oklemmetrythis]

Day 4

did some more dishes, aired out the flat and stored empty glasses in the cellar in the morning

Time: ~30 min

Media: personal YouTube Playlist

Day 5

checked my baking supplies, did more dishes and aired out the flat in the morning

Time: ~30 min

Media: personal YouTube Playlist

[everydaydeeds]

Day 3898 - Made it to the refill store for more laundry soap just in the nick of time!

[lupismaris]

Spiraled down the Midori notebook rabbit hole and now I've ordered a whole new A5 planner/notebook traveler set help

[castielafflicted]

going to start fucking killing. realized too late into making my scrambled egg that theres no fucking salt anywhere????? and i had to break into my baking coarse salt. which means it wont be distributed well AT ALL. why the FUCK is there no salt anywhere

insert the low sodium freaks gif here.

[southernsolarpunk]

I think we a group need to consider what the early “zero waste” movement did in the 2010s. You know. They’d keep “all” their waste in a glass jar, live in a nice apartment somewhere in LA where they had easy access to a refill store and didn’t stop to consider that just existing in the US creates waste they couldn’t see.

I remember watching a video in 9th grade (around 2013) about a chick who did that and even then I was like “that’s bullshit” and it really turned me off the zero waste movement.

The inherent classism of a lot of zero waste purists created a wall between me and them, where instead of them admitting their privilege, they simply said “anyone can do this”. Most people can’t. A zero waste refill store does not exist in my state! Sure, I could try online but this is 1. More expensive- something my dirt poor family could not do at the time and 2. Creates more carbon emissions!

This isn’t to say zero waste is bad- it’s simply a standard most Americans can’t reach. I think this is why I’m so drawn to solarpunk, because I think solarpunk recognizes the classism that is in a lot of eco-friendly products and movements (something I do think is being addressed- I’ve seen more affordable products now than I did in high school). Solarpunk includes diy- reusing packaging that many of us still have to buy because we can’t afford the eco-friendly version.

Idk I just had some thoughts

[outsidersheadcanons]

heyyy outsiders fandom ik it's been a while 😭 haven't been able to be active recently bc i started college ‼️

so ummm in honor of that...

here's some headcanons for when Horse boy went off to college 🤪

ok to start Soda and Darry were CRYING at his graduation. They were so so proud of him 😭 esp for pulling through after everything and graduating w/ pretty good grades. They were cheering the loudest out of anyone in that stadium

Pony ended up getting some scholarships (for good grades and also bc. he reused his theme MULTIPLE times for his essays 💀). He pretty much got a free ride.

Ponyboy also got into the academic dorm bc of his good grades. All of the other guys were pretty nerdy but he actually made a lot of friends (after he quit hating on them for being nerds ofc 😡)

(modern) Pony called Darry so much when he was living in the dorms to give him life updates (life updates being that he's like. refilling his water bottle or sum 😭)

He'll NEVER admit it but he misses Darry and Soda SO MUCH (they live like. 20 mins away from campus 💀) on the first night he MIGHT'VE gotten a lil bit teary :(

He comes home like. every other weekend and Steve, Two-bit, and his brothers are VERY invested in the dorm lore (he updates them every time they see him) and who he's beefing w/ (you think Pony quits being a hater when he matures? no way think again 😡)

Even Steve is so so proud of him (but ofc he teases him like crazy and calls him Big Horse on Campus 💀)

College is actually a great environment for this guy 😭 he loves all of his classes, and he was pleasantly surprised that no one cared that he was a greaser

and remember. Pony's going to college in the late 60's so things are a little... wacky 🍃. but he's not really into that kind of thing or parties (much to Darry's relief)

[otomehonyaku]

DIABOLIK LOVERS More,Blood Stellaworth Complete Set Tokuten Short Stories ☽ Laito ver.

Original title: DIABOLIK LOVERS MORE,BLOOD ステラワース全巻連動購入特典ショートストーリ English translation by @otomehonyaku Scans can be found here (courtesy of @karleksmumskladdkaka!)

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SUMMARY | This short story provides a slice of Laito and Yui's daily life after the events of More,Blood. Laito does not particularly like overly sweet things─save for macarons─and he starts to wonder why.

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Please do not reuse or repost my translations elsewhere or translate my work into other languages without my permission.

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—To be honest, I had never been good with overly sweet stuff. Aside from macarons, though macarons tend to be quite sweet as well…

“Wait… If that’s the case, I might actually like sweet things after all,” I said. 

Then, Bitchlet came in with an exasperated look on her face. “You’re not even sure of it yourself?”

That exasperated face of yours is irresistible, I found myself thinking. I crossed my legs, rested my chin on my hands, and let my eyes drift upward as I turned over the thought in my head. I immediately realised something.

Realised that I had just never tasted something that I considered ‘overly sweet’ yet.

In Reiji’s absence, Bitchlet prepared tea for me. In all honesty, I was about to tell her that I would rather drink her blood than a cup of tea, but since she told me she had brought macarons to pair it with, I had decided to humour her.

A box of macarons in a wide array of colours sat before me. I stuffed them in my mouth one by one, anticipating what flavour would come next.

“If you’d call this overly sweet… then anything sweeter than this would just be a regular kind of sweet.�� Hehe.” 

“Overly sweet’… Do you mean something like honey?” she said as she poured the tea.

“Ah, honey… Wouldn’t that be about the same amount of sweetness as macarons, though?” While I spoke, she hesitantly plopped several sugar cubes into the tea she had just poured for me as if to say try this, then.

Maybe this was the sweetness I was looking for. 

“Oh my, doing all this even though I’ve just told you I don’t like overly sweet stuff? I had no idea you possessed such sadistic qualities.” I mused, raising the teacup to my mouth.

“…I wonder if you’ll like it.”

“Urgh… Ugh…! This is… too much after all!” I hurried to grab the teapot and refill my cup.

There was now fresh tea in it—maybe she had anticipated this reaction from me.. 

“…Phew. Thanks.” 

My teacup was now filled to the brim. I downed it in one go and let out a sigh. 

“You’re… surprisingly normal,” she suddenly remarked, smiling sheepishly.

“Huh?”

“Um… I suppose your reaction was… kind of a normal reaction to have, which made me feel a little relieved.”

“How cruel of you to say that. Well, I know how much you actually prefer my perverted behaviour, though…” 

For a moment, my sadistic side gained the upper hand. I leaned forward, hovering my body over Bitchlet’s. Then, I grabbed her by the chin and lightly touched my lips against hers. Our mouths came apart with a wet smack.

The deliciously sweet taste of her lips took me off-guard.

“I see… So this means… you are the perfect amount of sweetness for me,” I whispered.

Bitchlet tilted her head to the side. “Hm? What do you mean?”

“Heh. You see, I was just thinking… I don’t really like sickly sweet things… especially not if you force them on me.” 

I thought my explanation had been quite eloquent, but her expression suggested that it had not erased the metaphorical question marks from her mind. 

Oh, well. It was fine even if she did not understand, since she was the one who would willingly provide me with this pleasant sweetness.

I hoped she would stay with me like this forever.

And if she would not… I sincerely hoped I would never have to be faced with a sickly sweet romance. —Why? Because I cannot even deal with such sickly sweetness. After all, I preferred the perfect light sweetness that was unique to her.

[seat-safety-switch]

So-called motorcylists love to shove their beloved bikes away whenever there's a little bit of snow on the road. That's because motorcyclists are famously concerned with their public perception. They don't want to drive around town with wood screws run through their tires, shrieking profanities at stopped traffic before ripping a perfect 12 'o' clocker and driving across the iced-over multi-use-pathway, comfortable in their knowledge that the police will not and can not follow. Or it's because they don't have heated grips, and their handsies get cold.

Heated steering wheels are the single greatest innovation in cars in the last two hundred years. Unfortunately for me, they hadn't been installed into cars of the age I own. In the late 1970s, the newest innovation in steering wheel comfort was "maybe make them a little smaller, for the ladies." Seems like I was cursed to a lifetime of wondering if my thermostat was seized, freezing to death even through many layers of mittens and work gloves while waiting for the tow truck to arrive and clean up the commuters in front of me.

Of course, Plymouth also didn't equip this car with a lot of other modern features. For instance, liquid-cooled active speed laser and radar jamming was not available. Active pursuit drones pre-programmed with a seek-and-destroy order for all speed cameras were not yet on the market, unless you worked for the CIA. And also the good people of China had not figured out how to make $35 45-millimetre ball-bearing turbochargers capable of adding nearly four hundred horsepower to any engine strong enough to keep its guts on the inside when presented with one medium-sized jet engine's worth of boost. I had to add all those things myself.

Easy, right? Run some wires to a heating element on the steering wheel. There's just one complication: steering wheels turn. If I keep spinning the car left and right, eventually the wire will get tangled up and rip itself out, causing an electrical fire. Admittedly, that will also keep my hands warm, but the walk home after is inconvenient.

The original "engineers" who took a whisky-soaked gander at this car before slapping their secretaries on the ass had a solution, though. In every steering wheel, the horn button has the same problem. Unfortunately for me, the horn hasn't worked in this car since 1983, which complicated my attempts to reuse the wiring.

Ultimately, I came up with what a rocket scientist would call "a compromise." A pair of bolt cutters and a map to the local truck-supply warehouse's storage yard soon provided me with a nifty diesel-fired interior heater, a roaring flame that consumes all and produces enough heat to make toast from three feet away. Ratchet-strapped to the place where the passenger seat used to be, it will keep my fingers warm, as well as my feet and every other part of my body. Sure, it's inconvenient having to continually refill it with stolen farm diesel, and I could have run the exhaust pipe out of the cabin a better way than through the rust hole in the floor. Once you get that heated seat feeling, though, you simply can't go back. If you'll excuse me, I need to get going: if I don't get to work in the next five minutes, my boots will melt again.

[squid-socks]

I wish products where sold:

Sample size - less plastic and a chance to see if you even like the product so less waste of product and money if you hate it.

Normal size - Fully recyclable. This is basically just the base container for the product like the average 200ml or something. I am a strong believer that this version should be the amount the average consumer would need for a month (minimum). But that last bit is just my opinion.

Refills - either plastic free or returnable. Be super awesome if you could just return the empty container to the boots or some bigger chain that handles the return of these containers to the companies for reuse in bulk. Then maybe you get a small discount for the store (like phand in Germany) or (like ‘the body shop’ used to do but stopped but they are pretty bad anyway - once where an mlm ) you can bring a branded container and just have it refilled with the product you wanted and get a small discount. ✨

OTHER THINGS THAT SHOULD EXIST:

The difficulty with accessible packaging is many people need very different things to make a product accessible. However - based on my current understanding - a pump lid is generally more accessible. And a bottle that can stand on its own and isn’t too tall. But generally there should be more accessibility options and bottle types to select from. Maybe even (for example) boots makes refillable brand focused bottles. Then for advertising a paper sticker is added labelling what it is. But then people have choice on what helps them (within of course the limits recommended to maintain the product to its best standard).

Bamboo and biodegradable mascara wands and stuff. Bcs holy shit one a month is insane if all that crap is plastic🐟🐟 also just smaller??? Smaller mascara tubes please!???

No plastic washing stuffs - loofas should be burned. It’s not good for your skin or the environment. There are amazing natural fibres you can use! Maybe even a great chance to support a small business to be honest (and the product also lasts way longer usually.)

Ok thanks for listening. I wish any of these ideas would ever be implemented. But businesses seem to be making an active effort to get away from refills. At this point it feels like eco friendliness is a luxury and I hate it🐟😭😭😭😭

[mysaldate]

How bad can the EN game be?

Well, for one, they messed up the name of one of the main characters of the current chapter. For two, there isn't any Vil banner going on right now.

This isn't the first time they fumbled the bag this bad. Remember the JamiKali cousins incident? Remember the missing character sprites that took five days to fix? Remember the whole missing event that they had to shut the game down for eight hours to fix despite having just gone off maintenance and that they "compensated" for by giving out two energy refills? Remember the reused convention banners with the wrong convention names? Remember how they continuously mess up names they have canonically written in romanji?

I want everyone who says the localizers care about the game or that they're doing a good job to think long and hard about what they're saying.

[jordanching-blog]

Living lighter

I've been consciously trying to figure out ways to leave less of an imprint on the earth... here are a few things that I've implemented:

Reducing plastic use:

Water delivery in glass jars (spring water AND no plastic!)

Laundry pods instead of plastic containers

Refillable deodorant

Reusable jars for when I go to the herb store

I buy compostable garbage bags and reuse the produce ones for daily trash (would like to eliminate those though)

Reducing paper waste:

Using towels instead of paper towels and napkins

Using canvas totes when grocery shopping

Shopping local:

I stopped shopping at huge corporate owned grocery stores like Whole Foods and shop at my local neighborhood places

Curbed my Amazon addiction (still definitely use it, but try my best to reduce as much as possible)

Diet:

Eating mostly plant based (but some wings and fish here and there)

Things that weren't so great that were reusable:

Menstruation cup (super messy and not for me)

Q-tips (I bought this off a kickstarter and didn't feel like it was cleaning anything)

If I owned my own place, things I'd implement:

Bidet (use way less toilet paper and everything is so much cleaner)

Solar panels

Ways to reuse gray water

Compost (you'd think LA apartments would have this but nope)

It might not seem like much listed out, but it does make me feel better that I'm actively trying to reduce my imprint. If everyone did something small, it'd add up to something big! A book that I just finished, Braiding Sweet Grass, really made me think about our relationship with the Earth and how we can make it more reciprocal.

I'm always looking for more ways to improve, so if anyone has any suggestions, would love to learn!

[everydaydeeds]

Day 3690 - Went on a run to our new refill store to stock up on pantry staples ahead of baby coming.

[romaineheartslettuce]

Okay

I'm in the middle of moving into a room on the other side of my house. I also get my brother's old bathroom(BIG upgrade btw). It kind of put into perspective for me how much shit I have.

I was planning to do a project pan a lot sooner because I know I have a lot more beauty/hygeine shit than one person will ever need at a time. I didn't truly realize that the real problem was the amount of stationery I own...my room can classify as a stationery store. I will never have to go school/art supply shopping ever again.

I'm hoping to finish everything in the next 2-4 years AND I KNOW THATS LIKE CRAZY, but I have high hopes.

My goals for this project pan is to:

♡ Save Money/Make sure I get my money's worth with all the shit I bought

♡ Fix Spending Habits/Overconsumption

♡ Being more environmentally conscious

Here are the categories for the products I'm project panning:

BEAUTY/HYGEINE

◇ Body Spray

- I only need like 3-5.

◇ Perfume

- I only need like 1 regular sized bottle and maybe 3-5 roll ons.

◇ Lip Balm

- I only need 3 and a big tub of Vaseline that'll last me over 10 years.

◇ Lip Gloss

- I only need 3.

◇ Mascara

- I only need 1.

◇ Lipstick/Crayon

- I only need 1 of each color.

◇ Lip Tint

- I only need 2-3 different colors.

◇ Eyeshadow

- I only need 1 pallet and it doesn't even have to be big.

◇ Serums/Toner

- I use 3 serums every night. I think it would be fair to have 3 refill serums for when I finish a bottle.

◇ Toner

- Toner isn't a necessity in my routine, but it's nice to have sometimes. Even then, I only need 1 bottle.

◇ Body Lotion

- I only need 1 big bottle and maybe 1-3 8 oz bottles.

◇ Body Oil

- I only need 1 bottle of baby oil.

◇ Face Masks

- I only need 1 bottle of mud mask or 1 pack of paper masks.

STATIONERY/JOURNALING SUPPLIES

(I will give myself the permission to go crazy even if I have enough stuff if I have the opportunity to go to Daiso since I don't live near one)

◇ Coloring tools

- I only need one set that includes atleast rainbow, black, brown, and pink. In the future, I think I'm gonna try to stick to mostly crayons and colored pencils for environmental reasons.

◇ Stickers

- Honestly, for this one I could go crazy on buying them until it feels right, but only if I have like 5 left. For vinyl stickers, I only need a big pack on amazon, but only if I have none left. This one varies. I believe I have the impulse control to not overdo it over one shopping spree for stickers.

- I also have a bag full of pretty cutouts from magazines I use as a substitute for stickers.

◇ Notepads/Scrap Paper

- I only need 3-6 and maybe a pack of construction paper.

- I also keep a bag of scrap paper to reuse for journaling.

◇ Washi Tape

- I only need 5-10.

◇ Notebooks

- I only need to buy 5. Otherwise, I will get gifted one or I will come across one randomly that I have to take home with me. The limit I've given myself is 10. By the way, Composition notebooks are awesome.

◇ Highlighters

- I only need a pack.

◇ Stamps

- I have stamp sets where all I have to do is buy stamp pads when they run out, but for the cute instant refillable ones, I'll allow myself to get 3-6 at a time if I want to.

◇ Erasers

- I only need a pack of rubber rectangle ones and maybe 3 cute ones.

Those are the products I'm project panning.

For the beauty products, I've learned that I need to buy in moderation because one eyeshadow palette could last me YEARS. And almost half of my body sprays date back to middle school. I'm in college now. They also don't have to be expensive to be good quality. I like drugstore brands and I find some of the best things from TJMaxx, Marshalls, or Ross.

For the stationary products, I've learned that I need to buy in moderation. Again, I still have shit from elementary school. I've also learned that I don't need to buy fancy overpriced stationery. I love Daiso. Hehehehehehe daiso I love daiso.

Anyways, this is where I need to get with my project pan. Spending money normally and not like a hoarder. If you have any tips to how I can use my products faster without wasting them, let me know.

(I'm not gonna go shopping for the next thousand years. Wish me luck.)

- Lily

[fishing-lesbian-catgirl]

Why do we recycle pill bottles? I feel like it’d be really easy for them to collect used pill bottles when you come back for prescription refills so they could be cleaned and reused. I mean that also applies to pretty much everything, but pill bottles feel especially egregious to me because you use them for a few weeks to carry a handful of pills that don’t even leave residue or anything in the bottle and they’re usually in almost perfect condition post use. I know medical things have higher standards of sanitation and everything but it’s not that hard to clean them I feel like.

[mariacallous]

SpaceX’s Starship launcher spun out of control minutes after liftoff Thursday, showering fiery debris over the Bahamas and dealing another setback to Elon Musk’s rocket program after a failure under similar circumstances less than two months ago.

Starship and its Super Heavy booster, loaded with millions of pounds of methane and liquid oxygen propellants, lumbered off their launchpad in Texas at 5:30 pm Central time to begin the eighth full-scale test flight of SpaceX’s new-generation rocket. Thirty-three Raptor engines propelled the 404-foot-tall (123.1-meter) rocket through a clear afternoon sky with more than twice the power of NASA’s Saturn V rocket, the workhorse of the Apollo lunar program.

Repeating a feat SpaceX accomplished with Starship twice before, the rocket’s Super Heavy booster separated from the Starship upper stage roughly two-and-a-half minutes into the flight, then guided itself back to the Texas coastline for a catch by mechanical arms on the launchpad’s tower. SpaceX is now 3-for-3 with attempts to catch a Super Heavy booster back at the launch site, a sign that engineers are well on their way to mastering how to recover and reuse boosters in a similar way as they do with the smaller workhorse Falcon 9 rocket.

But SpaceX is now 0-for-2 on test flights of the newest version of Starship, called Block 2 or Version 2. The first six Starship test flights used an initial version of the ship, but SpaceX is modernizing its fleet with Starship Block 2, which stands slightly taller than the first version in order to accommodate additional propellants. Starship Block 2 also debuts smaller forward flaps to give the hardware another layer of protection from the scorching heat of reentry. The other notable change with Block 2 is a redesigned fuel-line system to feed propellants to the ship’s six Raptor engines.

Hardware Rich

The good news is there are many more Starships under construction in South Texas, so SpaceX likely won’t have to wait long to try again. The company started the year aiming for as many as 25 Starship test flights in 2025 but will end the first quarter of the year with just two.

“Today was a minor setback,” wrote Elon Musk, SpaceX’s CEO, on X. “Progress is measured by time. The next ship will be ready in 4 to 6 weeks.”

SpaceX Starship Flight 8 launches from Orbital Launch Pad A at Boca Chica beach on March 06, 2025 in Boca Chica Beach, Texas. Photograph: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

SpaceX has contracts with NASA worth approximately $4 billion to design and develop a human-rated Moon lander based on the Starship design. The Starship lander is a central piece of NASA’s architecture for the Artemis program, which aims to return astronauts to the lunar surface later this decade. For Starship to fly to the Moon, SpaceX must refill it with super-cold propellants in low-Earth orbit, something no one has done at this scale before.

Musk sees Starship as the interplanetary backbone for transporting cargo and people to Mars, one of his most consistent long-term goals. This, too, requires orbital refueling. Musk recently suggested SpaceX could be ready to demonstrate ship-to-ship orbital refueling in 2026, a year later than the 2025 goal NASA officials discussed in December.

Starship will also launch SpaceX’s next-generation Starlink Internet satellites. Before Thursday’s launch, ground crews loaded four Starlink mock-ups inside Starship’s payload bay to test the rocket’s deployment mechanism. Officials were eager to assess the performance of Starship Block 2’s heat shield before committing to an attempt to recover the ship intact (like SpaceX is already doing with the Super Heavy booster) on a future mission. But the premature ending of this test flight means those objectives must wait.

SpaceX oversees Starship using an iterative development cycle. Engineers come up with new designs, rapidly test them, and then incorporate lessons learned into the next rocket. It’s not surprising to see a few rockets blow up using this spiral development cycle. But back-to-back failures, especially with so many similarities, may point to a more fundamental issue.

The flight plan going into Thursday’s mission called for sending Starship on a journey halfway around the world from Texas, culminating in a controlled reentry over the Indian Ocean before splashing down northwest of Australia.

The test flight was supposed to be a do-over of the previous Starship flight on January 16, when the rocket’s upper stage—itself known as Starship, or ship—succumbed to fires fueled by leaking propellants in its engine bay. Engineers determined the most likely cause of the propellant leak was a harmonic response several times stronger than predicted, suggesting the vibrations during the ship’s climb into space were in resonance with the vehicle’s natural frequency. This would have intensified the vibrations beyond the levels engineers expected.

The Super Heavy booster returned to Starbase in Texas to be caught back at the launch pad. Photograph: Scott Schilke/AP Photo

Engineers test-fired the Starship vehicle earlier this month for this week’s test flight, validating changes to propellant temperatures, operating thrust, and the ship’s fuel feed lines leading to its six Raptor engines.

But engineers missed something. On Thursday, the Raptor engines began shutting down on Starship about eight minutes into the flight, and the rocket started tumbling 90 miles (146 kilometers) over the southeastern Gulf of Mexico. SpaceX ground controllers lost all contact with the rocket about nine-and-a-half minutes after liftoff.

“Prior to the end of the ascent burn, an energetic event in the aft portion of Starship resulted in the loss of several Raptor engines,” SpaceX wrote on X. “This in turn led to a loss of attitude control and ultimately a loss of communications with Starship.”

Just like in January, residents and tourists across the Florida peninsula, the Bahamas, and the Turks and Caicos islands shared videos of fiery debris trails appearing in the twilight sky. Air traffic controllers diverted or delayed dozens of commercial airline flights flying through the debris footprint, just as they did in response to the January incident.

There were no immediate reports Thursday of any Starship wreckage falling over populated areas. In January, residents in Turks and Caicos recovered small debris fragments, including one piece that caused minor damage when it struck a car. The debris field from Thursday’s failed flight appeared to fall west of the areas where debris fell after Starship Flight 7.

A spokesperson for the US Federal Aviation Administration said the regulatory agency will require SpaceX to perform an investigation into Thursday’s Starship failure.