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Ryan Mischkulnig @found-ling.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Consumer responsibility has been the preference of manufacturers for decades, will outcomes like this force change, or will powerful interests find a way to reverse these outcomes? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

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High Court's coalmine emissions ruling says 'the quiet part out loud'

Activists, politicians and the resources sector are fired up about a High Court ruling over a planning statute.

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Ryan Mischkulnig @found-ling.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Why do we continue to recycle or dispose of goods and components which could be reused? What does reuse even mean? A newly published paper looks at the meaning of reuse from a production perspective, and what is holding back its scalability. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Over-Reliance on Recycling: Implications for Scaling Value-Added Circular Strategies - Circular Economy and Sustainability

Increasing the retention of existing resources in use can assist in mitigating climate change and the growing strain on linear resource streams. The circular economy provides a model for this, however...

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Ryan Mischkulnig @found-ling.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

If governments stopped dumping resources in landfill, would individuals feel less inclined to dump them on the side of the road? Is dumping individuals not just a convenience/cost choice, or is it also a "well if they can just jump the stuff I should be able to too"?

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Ryan Mischkulnig @found-ling.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

"The belief in progress... causes the incapability of humans to understand that their existence is threatened" (Ehgartner et al. 2017 - On the obsolescence of human beings in sustainable development) Are we still of the illusion that change is progress toward something? 1/6

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Ryan Mischkulnig @found-ling.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Can we define sustainability simply as the retention of resources in use, to avoid the need for new resource consumption? In retail we understand that retaining an existing customer (resource) in use is far cheaper (requires far less resources) than engaging a new one. 1/5

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Ryan Mischkulnig @found-ling.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Was the invention of the pencil the beginning of throwaway consumption? 3/4 or more (the timber) of the product is disposable packaging,thrown out without value as it is sharpened. Was there an earlier product where so much of the product was single use packaging?

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Ryan Mischkulnig @found-ling.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

What if a design company showcased waste in order to eliminate it? Making goods from hard to reuse or recycle materials and instead of calling them 'made from waste' they just called them 'waste'? What if the exposure generated pressured the companies making the waste in the first place to stop?

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Ryan Mischkulnig @found-ling.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Re-Tuned Bluetooth speaker kits for acoustic guitars are available now! After months of work and many iterations we are now able to offer our Re-Tuned kits that allow you to convert your unplayed acoustic guitar into a beautiful sounding bluetooth speaker. Available through retuned.au

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Ryan Mischkulnig @found-ling.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

My kid's birthday party was today. Yes, reuse takes a little more time than take-make-dispose, but it is worth it. These 34 cups are on their 6th birthday with us, so they represent 204 cups not wasted, but some of these cups are 40+ years old, seeing 100s of uses. That's a lot of waste avoided.

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Ryan Mischkulnig @found-ling.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Do we need to reintroduce passion into product design in order to increase the longevity of products? THREAD 1/6

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Ryan Mischkulnig @found-ling.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Since the industrial revolution we have been gradually trading labour effort energy. We have been finding ways to make products with less labour input by inserting more energy. To do so we have had to make our material inputs more homogeneous, breaking them down into smaller and smaller elements 1/4

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Ryan Mischkulnig @found-ling.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

It is a privilege to live in a part of the world where there are constant reminders that it is not just for the sake of humanity that we need to pursue circularity and sustainability.

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Ryan Mischkulnig @found-ling.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Circular economy is often misunderstood as landfill reduction - less landfill=less resource consumption or greater resource recovery, but this is not accurate. Recycling destroys embodied energy while consuming energy. Reuse, repair, repurposing retain embodied energy. They are the better solution.

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Ryan Mischkulnig @found-ling.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

How sustainable design should work. Making something that does everything a new product does, while using as few new materials as possible. This Bluetooth Speaker uses a worn out guitar as its acoustic chamber and installs into the guitar. Maximum function and sustainability, minimum waste.

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