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I wrote about a way round the EU directive on single-use plastics

Would you actually put them in the dishwasher and re-use them?

https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/plastic-loophole

#plastics #greenwashing

I was having lunch with a friend and colleague at a highly rated local tavola calda. I expressed some sadness that although the food was wonderful, each of us was generating a small mountain of waste plastic -- plates, cutlery, cups, everything. My friend informed me that in 2019 the EU had implemented a directive to reduce single-use plastics, specifically to protect the environment.

But in front of use were our two small mountains. How come?

Ah, she told me, in Italy, many packages of plastic plates etc. are labelled saying they can be re-used. Problem solved.

I wonder how many are actually washed and re-used, or even re-used dirty. And do other EU countries crawl through the same loophole?

A medieval pushmi-pullyu
https://mastodon.social/@medieval_illuminations/115976858388253903

Spero Che anche Roma si fa
https://poliversity.it/@rivoluzioneurbanamobilita/115971331639329426

New Eat This Newsletter 294: All wet

* A water sommelier walks into a spa ...
* Never mind food prices, how did water get so costly?
* Arizona attempts to keep Saudi Arabia out of its aquifers.

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#newsletter #food #water

Eat This Newsletter 294: All wet

* A water sommelier walks into a spa ...
* Never mind food prices, how did water get so costly?
* Arizona attempts to keep Saudi Arabia out of its aquifers.

All the news that's fit to drink at https://buttondown.com/jeremycherfas/archive/etn-294-all-wet/

first real snow this year and i saw a few cute things. it's nice how silly people all around get about snow it makes me happy

Those look good. Last night I made the air-fryer tofu that Alice McFlurry shared on Mastodon https://beige.party/@Alice/115941847048511529 and it was excellent. Tofu scramble is not on my list, probably because I am not a vegan.

The Level Up is an indie improv showcase. Join us as we watch amazing New York indie improv talents gain XP on the Magnet stage, unlock new achievements, and reach new milestones. Or do comedy.

Come support Michael as he dons his hosting-duties cap for three exciting indie teams!

• BIZZO (IG: @bizzonyc)
• AM 2 PM (IG: @anthonyjulian_improv)
• UP TO NO GOD (IG: @uptonogod)

I’ll be playing with Bizzo, as well as with Michael and the rest of the Level Up!

Looking forward to it! And to seeing you there!! (Yes, you. Come on out!!!)

Saturday January 24th, 2026 @ 10:30pm
Magnet Theater
254 West 29th St (btwn 7th and 8th Ave.)
New York City, NY 10001
Tickets $10: https://magnettheater.com/show/tickets/60293/

Magnet Theater

https://magnettheater.com/show/tickets/60293/

All fixed now. Thanks to DonTheMaster on Mastodon, who suggested changing my local DNS to 9.9.9.9 I have been trying to migrate some sites to a new host, with all the attendant patience-trying delays while things like DNS propagate. So an email telling me that a spammer ha...

A piece in Anthropocene magazine pointed me to an interesting study just published at PNAS: Aging populations threaten conservation goals of zoos. It is behind a paywall, so I am reliant on the abstract and what I read at Anthropocene, although that doesn’t change my conclus...

Spent a more-or-less instructive week slowly moving this site over to its new home hosted at Hetzner. Not there yet, unless you’re reading this at some point in the future, but with a lot of help — and a lot of misdirection too — from ChatGPT we are getting closer. Some hard lessons to learn, which I will address in a more detailed write up, and despite a deluge of explanations, there are still many things about which my understanding is very shaky. Nevertheless, I am glad to be moving forward.

Zachary kindly invited me to answer a few questions about hosting the IndieWeb Carnival. Running for three years now, the IndieWeb Carnival has been the source of endless inspiration for me, sparking both long periods of thinking as well as writing blog posts. Even when I ha...

Help wanted.

I migrated a site to a new host (Hetzner) yesterday. Spammers can apparently reach the site, but I still can’t.

Is there anything I can try?

https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/alas-i-am-not-a-server-admin

#askfedi #hetzner

At EdinburghJS this week, Colin mentioned the idea of “kind software.” This got me thinking. What would make software kind? As I write, I notice the word “kind” reminds me of the term “user friendly,” which has associations with software being simple to use in the context of...