Repair Cafe Recap - July 2023
By Chloe’ Skye
How are you enjoying your summer holidays? It’s the height of the Denmark holiday season and we miss your cheerful faces.
Make sure to write down these upcoming opportunities to visit Repair Cafe Odense and/or learn about sustainability:
📅 Thursday, August 10 we’ll be doing a repair/talk event in collaboration with Bronx 5200 (scroll to the end for more information!) 👇
📅 Sunday, August 27 we’ll be at the container, doing our thing!
📅 Thursday, September 7 we have another repair/talk event at Bronx.
July 2023 stats
Here’s what we saw this month:
- ⚙ lawn mower
- 🔊 speaker
- 🌬 fan
- 🧸 plush toy
- 💡 car light
Items fixed / problem found: 4 of 5
The plush toy is still in the process of being fixed.
Success rate:
8️⃣0️⃣% (or more!)
Stories from the July Repair Cafe
It was a quiet Repair Cafe this month with so many people away, but we still made the best of it with a few novel fixes.
Electronics are what we see most of, and this event was no exception. But there was one special thing this event…
We worked on our first “car” repair! 🚗
Sometimes, even our volunteers need things fixed, and when there’s downtime during events, it’s a good opportunity to work on an important project. That’s how our volunteer Ondrej ended up installing a car light in his own vehicle!
Don’t forget — we have a nice new coffee machine now. Come get a cup at future events ☕ And thanks to our visitors, as always, for your generous donations!
Psst… let’s talk about teaching you to repair!
This year, we’ve expanded our capacity and reach by collaborating with Bronx 5200. We hope to reach new audiences but also widen the types of tools we use to help you fix your items.
Come curious. We love answering your questions ✅
Remember, Repair Cafe has volunteers of all ages and nationalities. If you’re interested in helping spread the right to repair movement, don’t hesitate to reach out at info@repaircafeodense.dk 📧
🆕 International repair news
Here we’re debuting a new section for our blogs, where we will share international repair news.
👕 Have you heard that France decided to pay citizens to repair their clothes, instead of throwing them away? Fashion is one of the most polluting industries when it comes to dyes and water use, but it also creates a lot of waste: by some estimates, 92 million tonnes of textile waste each year.
🗑 Speaking of which, Denmark has just begun sorting textile waste at the kommune level. In Odense, we can sort textile waste via the “bulk waste scheme” (storskraldsordning). If you begin to see a bag for textile waste at the containers near where you live, now you know why!
What’s coming up next?
Coming soon!
📅 Thursday, August 10 we’ll be doing a repair/talk event in collaboration with Bronx 5200. Our volunteer Dylan will be speaking on the “Sustainability of Art.” RSVP on Facebook.
📅 Sunday, August 27 we’ll be at the container, doing our thing!
📅 Thursday, September 7 we have another repair/talk event at Bronx.
Join us!
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