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Revision as of 19:32, 9 November 2015
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What communities can do
- Bring and Fix schemes
- Community art from recycled materials
- Community paper collections
- Develop community libraries of all kinds thereby promoting reuse and sharing, see separate article
- Develop Community Recycling schemes or cooperatives, Community Wood Recycling Projects, Community compost schemes
- Enable Computer recycling and Furniture recycling
- Give or take days, Give or take stalls at Green fairs
- Nappy laundering service
- Precycling, Waste minimisation
- promote free reuse and Better Use
- Promoting products that are actually repairable in the first place (and not engineered to be disposable). A wiki or magazine could provide info on the most repairable products.
- Rent instead of buy
- Repair services and repair cafes
- Scrapstores
- Second-hand clothing, etc. stores, support charity shops
- Waste exchange schemes
- X-mas present swapping market
Why it matters
(article needed)
The 5th 'R'
A fifth 'R' is sometimes added. Examples include: 'Refuse', 'remanufacture', 'recover', 'restore', 'redesign', 'repurposing', 'rot' (compost), etc. [1]
Resources
- How to Start a Repair Café, information from Shareable
- iFixit, the free repair guide for everything, written by everyone. Global community of people helping each other repair things
- Restart Party Kit
Citizens data initiative
- Recycling Infographic from reusethisbag.com
- Technology Used to Protect Our Planet from consumerprotect.com
Maps
The grassroots repair and fixit movement, Map brought to you by The Restart Project
Networks
- Plastic Pollution Coalition, global alliance of individuals, organizations and businesses working together to stop plastic pollution and its toxic impacts on humans, animals, the ocean and the environment.
- Repair Café
- WARPit, resource redistribution network
Quotes
"If the garbage man calls, tell him we don't want any" Groucho Marx
Research
Grassroots Innovation and the Circular Economy - A Global Survey of Repair Cafés and Hackerspaces PDF, July 2014
Video
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more video: NESTA innovation in giving fund - Bring and Fix on vimeo
See also
- local information can be found, or shared, via our many location pages
- Environment quality
- Ethical consumerism
- Food, sustainable community action
- Free stuff
- No such thing as waste
- Sharing
- Zero waste towns
- Category:Recycling
- Category:Composting
Interwiki links
Wikipedia: Zero waste and its Governance section, Waste reduction (category), Reuse (category), Recycling (category),
External links
- The Plastic Bank, recycling to reduce plastic waste and poverty
- The Restart Project, London-based social enterprise aiming to revive electronics repair in order to reduce waste
- World Computer Exchange, USA and Canada based charity organization whose mission is "to reduce the digital divide for youth in developing countries, to use our global network of partnerships to enhance communities in these countries, and to promote the reuse of electronic equipment and its ultimate disposal in an environmentally responsible manner." W
References
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