User:Pelagic/Journal/2022/12

December 2022.

local timestamp: ({{subst:#time: H:i D d | +11 hours}}, AEDT; {{subst:#time: H:i D d}}, UTC)

Saturday 24 Dec

Wow. it's been a year since I last made notes here. (12:16 Sat 24, AEDT)

Soft plastic recycling and REDcycle

We have articles on recycling in Australia, plastic recycling, microplastics and plastic pollution, but only a redirect for soft plastic; and nothing for REDcycle, soft plastic recycling, nor plastic recycling in Australia.

I just read about REDcycle suspending its operations [1] due to a slump in markets, and being hit by the EPA over not answering questions about its storage and stockpiling facilities [2]. See also [3]. Looking for a good place to add the information, or perhaps this is an area where we need more articles.

(12:16 Sat 24, AEDT)

Ocean warming and species distribution change

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2022-08-13/fish-species-move-tasmania-snapper-kingfish/101327780. King George whiting, yellowtail kingfish, and "snapper" (red snapper?) are becoming more prevalent in Tasmania. (12:58 Sat 24, AEDT; 01:58 Sat 24, UTC)

The ducks are getting fat

When I visit https://thankyou.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You/ I get a cookie like
centralnotice_hide_fundraising:"%7B%22v%22%3A1%2C%22created%22%3A1671847418%2C%22reason%22%3A%22donate%22%7D"
which decodes to "{"v":1,"created":1671847418,"reason":"donate"}" . It's probably too late to give advice at Teahouse about that. Maybe next year. (15:06 Sat 24, AEDT; 04:06 Sat 24, UTC)

A template for I've-already-donated could be something like:

Hi, (user), thankyou for donating to the Wikimedia Foundation. Part of your donation goes towards the software and infrastructure that run Wikipedia and its sister projects, as well as supporting services such as legal. Wikimedia doesn't track you across devices, so if you donate on one device you will still see fundraising banners on others. After you donated, you would have seen a page like https://thankyou.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You/ That page sets a browser cookie which is meant to suppresses repeat banners (centralnotice_hide_fundraising:"{"v":1,"created"%...,"reason":"donate"}" ). If you block or clear cookies, then fundraising banners will reappear.