People who do calligraphy or draw (professionally as well as recreationally), you can also make your own pen nibs from soda or beer cans 👍

There was a trend here a few years back where they’d ask if you wanted a printed receipt. You can still get digital receipts instead if you’re on a loyalty membership I think.

What annoys me is when I use the self-service checkout I need a barcode on my paper receipt to open the automated gate and leave the shop 🙄

Sometime in the past year or so I started wondering aloud about the amount of paper and plastic packaging that was thrown into bins by the checkout in my local supermarket. Pretty much any outer wrapper or carton that would have an inner sealed bag/box.

I genuinely didn’t understand what was going on, as I never saw other customers unpack and discard all this. A kind mastodon user then told me about a movement to put the burden of excessive packaging back on the shop rather than consumers:

By unpacking double packaged goods and discarding the outer box/wrapper in the supermarket’s bins, these shoppers make visible to the staff and (ideally) owner that this is superfluous and unwanted materials, and BTW you get to throw it out now.

I haven’t managed to track down any other information about this sort of everyday activism, but I think it’s an appealing way to protest the amount of waste going into our homes on a daily basis.

Thanks for this, and the repost of postmarket OSes for Android phones! One reddit community that I used to frequent was r/androidafterlife, and I’ve tried to find similar here. I’m glad that !zerowaste@slrpnk.net offers some of the same advice 👍