🛒 What you can do as a consumer
- Adopt a sustainability mindset
- Take part in the circular economy
- Reduce consumption 🙂
- Responsible production and consumption
- Buy or sell used items
- Buy quality, repairable products
- Borrow instead of buying
- Repair! Customize! Up-Cycle!
- We can teach you to repair in person or recommend YouTube videos / the iFixit website
- Support Repair Cafe by donating – Mobile Pay: 68792
- Volunteer – no experience needed
🏭 What you can do as a company
- Design for the circular economy
- Offer repair manuals
- Offer (fairly-priced) repair parts
- Refurbish and resell products
- Make modular products (ex. the Fairphone)
- Reversible manufacturing
- Stop gluing things together!
- Offer upgradable and customizable products
💼 What you can do as a politician (long-term improvements)
- Keep repair costs down – it shouldn’t cost more!
- Implement carbon taxes
- Use the revenue to capture carbon
- Capture the ‘true cost’ of production & consumption
- ‘People, planet, profit’ accounting
- Quantify the social, environmental impacts
🌱 What you can do as a politician – near-term improvements
- Open up the Renovation Centers
- For individuals, businesses
- Done in Kolding Kommune
- Tax deduction for repairs
- Sweden – 50% lower VAT on repairs
- Helps local businesses and the environment
- ‘Right to Repair’ laws