When you bring a broken thing to be repaired and reused, you save yourself the (potentially very high) cost of buying a replacement, and you save needless disposal in our landfills. You might also pick up some skills or community connections while sipping a tea and munching on cake—all the better.
For a second year, we were pleased to raise awareness at events in Balmullo and with Dairsie Primary School. With the latter, our afternoon Repair Café on 23rd September supported pupil efforts to help the environment. It was promoted by Fife Climate Festival and Fife Climate Hub, at fccan.org.uk
A t all our cafes, those forms we ask you to complete provide important data about our impact.
Source: Farnham Repair Cafe Carbon Calculator – http://frc.cfsd.org.uk
That’s over 1 ton of waste saved from the tip! Calculated in terms of carbon emissions avoided by not replacing these items with new, your repairs have saved the equivalent of ONE of these activities:
Pat yourself on the back–these are brilliant results! Please help spread the word about DRC, so we can all watch these numbers climb and climb.
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