2014: another successful year for Repair Café
22 December 2014
The Repair Café has experienced a wonderful year. In 2014, there was again an incredible number of new Repair Cafés, more than doubling the total. At the end of 2013 there were 275 Repair Cafés worldwide, now there are more than 700! Together, volunteer repair experts now prevent more than 200.000 kilos of waste per year.
“Europe must strive for a circular economy”
24 November 2014
The European Commission must strive to switch to a circular economy next year. This is what 27 European organisations, including the Repair Café Foundation, wrote in an open letter to the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker.
Repair Cafés prevent 3,200 kg of waste
20 November 2014
In the European Week for Waste Reduction, 130 Repair Cafés in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and France will invest in a cleaner environment. Their aim for that week, which lasts from 22 to 30 November, is to prevent a total of more than 3,200 kg of waste.
France discovers Repair Café
24 September 2014
The Repair Café is also seriously beginning to take off in France now. Since the summer holidays, the Repair Café Foundation has had dozens of requests from interested parties in France. “A wonderful development”, says Repair Café creator Martine Postma.
Repair Cafés are conquering the world
2 September 2014
The number of Repair Cafés located around the world keeps increasing. Since March of this year, 200 local Repair Café groups have joined. Especially in Germany, this number is rapidly increasing. And there are also new countries that are now part of the Repair Café network.
‘Repair Café volunteers mostly want to help others’
25 June 2014
People who volunteer at a Repair Café are most strongly motivated to take part because of what they can do for others. They want to help other people live more sustainably, to provide a valuable service to the community and to help improve product reparability and longevity. This is revealed by research, recently undertaken by The Centre for Sustainable Design in Farnham, UK.
German Minister for Environment praises Repair Café
10 April 2014
Europe must actively promote repair as an alternative to throwing away and buying new goods. That is what the German Federal Minister for Environment, Barbara Hendricks, said on April 7 at the European Forum on Eco-Innovation in Hannover. In her opening speech, the Minister mentioned the Repair Café as an example of what Europe needs in order to achieve a circular economy.
Repair Café is hot topic in Germany
1 April 2014
The Repair Café is extremely popular in Germany. Repair Cafés can be found in many German towns and cities. At all levels, people are talking about the concept more and more. This spring, Repair Café creator Martine Postma goes to Germany more than once to talk about the Repair Café concept.
Already over 400 Repair Cafés worldwide
11 March 2014
The number of Repair Cafés continues to grow steadily. In the Netherlands, there are already more than 200 Repair Café groups: four times as much as a year ago. Also in other countries the number has grown to over 200. That means that worldwide, more than 400 Repair Cafés can be found!