Do you feel like giving broken items a second life instead of throwing them away? De Kringwinkel Antwerpen can help you get started: they rent out repair kits that you can immediately get to work with. You could team up with a few friends and organize a Repair Café, or join the ones organized by GreenOffice at the university.
A Repair Café is a free event where people come together to fix things. We invite you for a coffee or tea and provide all the tools and materials you need to repair your textiles and electronics with the help of an expert.
By extending the life of your products and resisting the urge for "bigger, better, faster, safer", you're actively opposing our throwaway consumer culture and contributing to a circular economy, where raw materials can be reused over and over again. In Belgium, we throw away an enormous amount, even items that could be perfectly usable again after a simple repair. Repair knowledge is disappearing. To help with that, iFixit is a worldwide peer-to-peer platform where people share repair techniques.
