https://transitionaustralia.net/community-repair-cafes-hubs/
"Repair Cafes are a great way to keep goods out of landfill.
For example, Transition Darebin (in Melbourne) runs a bi-monthly Darebin Repair
Café (DRC). A team of volunteer fixers help people with items to repair. Items
are weighed, and a tally kept of items successfully repaired, information given
about how to repair, and irreparable items. The tally is recorded on a global
website, as a measure of weight kept from landfill.
During C-19 lockdowns, they ran 8 virtual cafes. People sent in weights of
goods repaired at home. This provided encouragement to keep repairing, plus the
benefit of keeping in contact during lockdown. It also achieved the main repair
goal of keeping goods out of landfill.
Over the twenty-three Darebin Repair Cafe events between 2018 and mid-2022, a
total of 992 items weighing 2019.725 kg (2 tonnes) has been saved. That’s as
big as a white rhinoceros. The virtual cafes in 2020-21 saved 494 items
weighing 1236.469 kg.
The Rogue Ginger published an overview of repair cafes in Australia that is so
comprehensive we have reproduced it below, with her permission."
Via Susan ****
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
