Waste

• The global dialysis market is set to achieve remarkable growth, projected to exceed $141.26 billion by 2028, according to Renub Research.
• Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a progressive condition affecting over 10% of the global population, totaling more than 800 million individuals.
• The global prevalence of diabetes among people aged 20-79 was 11% in 2021, expected to rise to 12% by 2045.
• Additionally, Chinese companies have made significant strides in manufacturing dialysis equipment, contributing to both domestic supply and global export.

• The agreement allows Vale Base Metals to advance its circular mining ambitions by utilizing BluestOne's expertise to repurpose slag and other waste to useful valuable products.
• A non-binding MOU setting out the scope of further cooperation in waste-to-value and circular mining has also been agreed.
• Reduces Vale Base Metals' legacy environmental footprint at its Onça Puma mine in Brazil with opportunity to scale across operations.
• Deshnee Naidoo, CEO of Vale Base Metals, said: "Waste-to-value and circular mining are key levers in our sustainability strategy and technology roadmap.

• The NovusBloc® heat exchangers were manufactured in in South Korea and approved according to PED with CE-marking for use in Europe.
• The Tranter facility in Vänersborg, Sweden, handled the project execution and successfully delivered the NovusBloc® heat exchangers to the plant in Stockholm according to plan.
• The NovusBloc® heat exchangers will be used as condensers and heat recovery for the boiler upgrade needed for the modification of the Waste-to-energy combined heat and power (CHP) plant.
• He sees an increased need for compact, reliable, and efficient heat exchangers in the current energy transition market in Europe.

• Digital archives have become powerful platforms for women artists who were excluded from official art history, allowing them to claim their rightful place posthumously.
• This is evident in dedicated digital projects for early-to-mid 20th century avant-gardists like artist, writer and entrepreneur Mina Loy, antiwar activist and cabaret artist Emmy Hennings or Dada artist Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven.

‘The Living Dada’

• Among Dada’s controversial, albeit less well-known practitioners, was von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874-1927), a German emigree poet and performer.
• My research has documented Baroness Elsa’s value as an early feminist performance artist who made bold statements through her attire.
• Writer Caroline Knighton has examined how Baroness Elsa used waste products in art to subversively link art to thrift culture.

Unverified images

• A photograph lacking proper attribution and sourcing is presented on various websites as von Freytag-Loringhoven.
• A reverse image search reveals the photo to be from a Russian theatre performance of the play The Blue Bird (1884-1940).

Orientalist, sexist 1915 descriptors

• In 1915, the New York Times’ Dec. 5 issue introduced the Baroness’s artmaking in orientalist terms.
• In the story, the Baroness explains she has worked until 3 a.m. that night to finish a new dress to wear to pose for a drawing class.
• She relays she has applied to the German consulate for support because her husband is a prisoner of war.
• Her bold stare at the camera is unconventional for a woman of that era, though this is mainstream today.
• According to art historian Francis M. Naumann’s book New York Dada, the year 1915 marked the beginning of the Dada movement in New York.

Complicated relationship to orientalism

• The Baroness had a complicated relationship to orientalism.
• Simultaneously, in her autobiographical writings, she ridiculed these same male artists for stereotyping women as hetaeras, ancient Greek prostitutes who were also intellectual companions.
• This rendering may be interpreted as disrupting or mocking popular orientalist fads in the west, in lieu of uncritically reproducing them.

Images shape identity, perception

• Images have the power to shape our identity and perception.
• A diligent effort should be made to accurately source and responsibly contextualize images.