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Dorothee
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| 05:01 AM Apr 16 2022

Dorothee

Germany

‘GEA’ says that a certain amount of plastic waste from the EU is simply sent to Asian countries – especially Bangladesh and Cambodia. There due to the not so harsh laws some of this waste gets simply dumped somewhere in the wild. (To be fair most of the plastic sent there gets re-used for cheap products though.) To at least limit the harm this dumping causes to man and nature some Asian countries now forbid the import of certain types of dangerous waste.

| 06:08 PM Oct 11 2021

Dorothee

Germany

>Big international enterprises like ‘Spreadshirt’, ‘Momox Fashion’ or ‘Bonprix’ gave away quite a lot of coupons to their customers this month. I’m sure many didn’t have any use for all these coupons just for clothing and threw them out. To everyone’s surprise however my neighbors (parents of 4 children one of which is still a baby of 9 months and none of which is older than 10) found an old envelope today stuck to their door. It contained coupons belonging to ‘Spreadshirt’, ‘Bonprix’ and ‘Momox Fashion’. Wheter this was a coincidence or someone knew about the four little children living there is unclear. Also it’s unclear if this person who donated this envelope knew that each year some enterprises have a lot of clothes destroyed, because they couldn’t find a customer, meaning that workers in Bangladesh and India who made these clothes were exploited and mistreated more or less for no reason. In the latter case maybe someone just wanted to put at least some sense into this inhumane work by at least finding customers who could really use these coupons (with 4 fast-growing children after all). Anyway we will probably never know! I just wanted to share with you what the lady told me.
>For 14 years at least now I’ve had an old shirt in my closet I haven’t worn for years. It is pink and in Germany pink is considered a color for little girls or is associated with feminism. On the other hand I couldn’t donate this thing either as it’s just so old and it would feel like betrayal to donate this shirt knowing that in one year at best it will fall apart. And to use it as a towel to clean and dedust everything it just was too intact. Thank God I now found something they sold as a ‘Decolorizer’ (no translation, just the name of the product). I think it’s some bleach. The writing on the packing promised that if heated just like in the added description it would turn colored textiles into another color. However which colour would be a surprise. Now I have a pale yellow shirt which is less embarrassing for me to wear. So there is no need for me to throw it away. I think they call that ‘upcycling’.

| 06:09 PM Oct 01 2021

Dorothee

Germany

The German newspaper ‘SZ’ says that a prominent leader of the Rohingya was shot this week.

| 06:08 PM Oct 03 2020

Dorothee

Germany

The October-sample of the German newspaper ‘Engagiert – KDF’ says that in Bangladesh there is an aid-organisation called ‘Reconstructing Women’. They offer facial surgery for free to women – yes, solely women – who got facial scars after getting attacked for sexist reasons or for reasons like jealousy. In some cases these scars were even the result of attempted murder of the bride by her husband when her family failed to pay the bride’s token in time. In other cases the woman in question was a rape victim punished by her own family for ‘letting herself getting raped’ (victim blaming). Some of these scars are not just an esthetic issue, but a real life-threatening injury – like a scar on the lips preventing the woman from eating or a scarred nose making it hard to breathe for her. This aid-organisation also cooperates with similar aid-organisations like ‘Friendship’ which gives medical, educational and economical support to the poorest citizens of Bangladesh.

| 05:17 AM Sep 27 2020

Dorothee

Germany

The German TV-show ‘Topwelt’ now made a list of the 10 most disgusting cases of food pollution.
Just to name some of them:
>Weevil were found in a bag of rice imported from Bangladesh to the USA.
>An at least non-poisonous, but already decaying frog was found in a pepsi-bottle.
>In several cases customers found mold or funghi in bags of capri sun.
>In a product belonging to the producer ‘Mars’ a human tooth was found.
>Last but not least a living catarpillar was found in convenience food curry with rice from Bangladesh. Even though the product had been microwaved for minutes the insect was still alive.

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