Ryan Mischkulnig
@found-ling.bsky.social
Reuse based designer and engineer. Working towards a more circular and sustainable future
Can this language of resource retention and resource consumption avoidance be carried across sustainability more broadly, and can examples of the cost of disposal in other elements of business help us understand the costs in goods?
#circulareconomy #sustainability
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#circulareconomy #sustainability
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December 2, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Can this language of resource retention and resource consumption avoidance be carried across sustainability more broadly, and can examples of the cost of disposal in other elements of business help us understand the costs in goods?
#circulareconomy #sustainability
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#circulareconomy #sustainability
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In goods production retaining resources in use to avoid the need for new for new ones is a pretty clear example of sustainability/circularity. Reuse is a highly efficient example of this, recycling a less efficient one.
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December 2, 2025 at 2:28 AM
In goods production retaining resources in use to avoid the need for new for new ones is a pretty clear example of sustainability/circularity. Reuse is a highly efficient example of this, recycling a less efficient one.
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The purchase of a new office printer may look cheaper than repairing an existing one, but what about the time spent unboxing, setting it up, training everyone to use it?
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December 2, 2025 at 2:28 AM
The purchase of a new office printer may look cheaper than repairing an existing one, but what about the time spent unboxing, setting it up, training everyone to use it?
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In management, we know that there is a substantial resource requirement (training, inefficiency, downtime between employees) in hiring and training a new employee (resource), compared with retaining an existing employee (resource).
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December 2, 2025 at 2:28 AM
In management, we know that there is a substantial resource requirement (training, inefficiency, downtime between employees) in hiring and training a new employee (resource), compared with retaining an existing employee (resource).
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September 26, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I am not suggesting that e-bikes have no benefit, just that the wasts
associated with their use/misuse needs consideration.
associated with their use/misuse needs consideration.
April 21, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I am not suggesting that e-bikes have no benefit, just that the wasts
associated with their use/misuse needs consideration.
associated with their use/misuse needs consideration.
Most of the data doesn't clearly distinguish between hire bikes and hire e-bikes, which makes it difficult. I recall more specific articles 5-10 years ago but am having trouble locating them now.
April 21, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Most of the data doesn't clearly distinguish between hire bikes and hire e-bikes, which makes it difficult. I recall more specific articles 5-10 years ago but am having trouble locating them now.
Here is a little on the share bikes more generally, electric bikes have made up part of this excess over recent years. www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/0...
The Bike-Share Oversupply in China: Huge Piles of Abandoned and Broken Bicycles
Gigantic piles of impounded, abandoned, and broken bicycles have become a familiar sight in many Chinese cities, after a rush to build up its new bike-sharing industry vastly overreached.
www.theatlantic.com
April 21, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Here is a little on the share bikes more generally, electric bikes have made up part of this excess over recent years. www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/0...
Electric lawnmowers similarly. I was excited to see big brands introducing Electric lawnmowers which looked like they used traditional lawnmower bases and motor mounting, thrn disappointed when it was very hard to impossible to buy those motor and battery packs as a kit to fit to existing mowers.
April 21, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Electric lawnmowers similarly. I was excited to see big brands introducing Electric lawnmowers which looked like they used traditional lawnmower bases and motor mounting, thrn disappointed when it was very hard to impossible to buy those motor and battery packs as a kit to fit to existing mowers.
I had hoped that the Copenhagen wheel would be a game-changer - the ability to easily electrify your existing bike with an all-in-1 power wheel, providing electric niek benefits with a fraction of the waste of a whole new bike, but it doesn't seem to have occurred.
April 21, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I had hoped that the Copenhagen wheel would be a game-changer - the ability to easily electrify your existing bike with an all-in-1 power wheel, providing electric niek benefits with a fraction of the waste of a whole new bike, but it doesn't seem to have occurred.
That's an interesting suggestion. Where an electric bike regularly replaces the use of s car and us used for many years, yes. We can't however ignore the piles of hundreds of thousands of e-bikes from failed hire schemes that represent copious waste for little to no CE gain.
April 21, 2025 at 1:23 AM
That's an interesting suggestion. Where an electric bike regularly replaces the use of s car and us used for many years, yes. We can't however ignore the piles of hundreds of thousands of e-bikes from failed hire schemes that represent copious waste for little to no CE gain.
Sadly it isn't completely absent from the election debate, as one side (the coalition) are announcing policies to actively slow our already slow energy transition.
March 29, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Sadly it isn't completely absent from the election debate, as one side (the coalition) are announcing policies to actively slow our already slow energy transition.
It does seem an easy target for Labour or the minor parties:
"41,000 workers will lose their jobs will be lost under Dutton."
"41,000 workers will lose their jobs will be lost under Dutton."
March 28, 2025 at 9:35 AM
It does seem an easy target for Labour or the minor parties:
"41,000 workers will lose their jobs will be lost under Dutton."
"41,000 workers will lose their jobs will be lost under Dutton."
Glad to see media picking this up. I ran the numbers when it was first announced and came to the same conclusion. Coalition carefully never said the average saving was $14, they gave an example of a person who would save $14 and let media get it wrong, a sly manoeuvre to avoid being called liars.
March 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Glad to see media picking this up. I ran the numbers when it was first announced and came to the same conclusion. Coalition carefully never said the average saving was $14, they gave an example of a person who would save $14 and let media get it wrong, a sly manoeuvre to avoid being called liars.
Can hero designers produce demand for products that last, made from products that already exist, leading to a more circular and sustainable future?
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March 20, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Can hero designers produce demand for products that last, made from products that already exist, leading to a more circular and sustainable future?
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Could the restrictions in volumes of available resources for reuse by hero designers create demand through scarcity and make an opportunity rather than a barrier from the variations in end-of-life resources?
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March 20, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Could the restrictions in volumes of available resources for reuse by hero designers create demand through scarcity and make an opportunity rather than a barrier from the variations in end-of-life resources?
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Could reintroducing hero designers and design languages that exude passion and optimism provide the catalyst for a reuse economy based on desire? Could hero designers producing aspirational products from salvaged materials generate demand for reuse and increase how long consumers use goods?
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March 20, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Could reintroducing hero designers and design languages that exude passion and optimism provide the catalyst for a reuse economy based on desire? Could hero designers producing aspirational products from salvaged materials generate demand for reuse and increase how long consumers use goods?
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Designs undertaken with passion and optimism, such as many of those in the 1950s, where designers like Loewy could create design languages that flowed from cars to furniture to cola dispensers generated products that are still used and desired today despite functional and ergonomic limitations.
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March 20, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Designs undertaken with passion and optimism, such as many of those in the 1950s, where designers like Loewy could create design languages that flowed from cars to furniture to cola dispensers generated products that are still used and desired today despite functional and ergonomic limitations.
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The lifecycle of products has constantly decreased over the last century and it is not entirely due to durability. Great swathes of goods are thrown out well before they are beyond use.
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March 20, 2025 at 2:40 AM
The lifecycle of products has constantly decreased over the last century and it is not entirely due to durability. Great swathes of goods are thrown out well before they are beyond use.
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