Holland's Repair Cafés

[Taffy]

Nice piece I saw on Al Jazeera news yesterday, on meet-ups where people bring their broken stuff to be fixed gratis:

http://www.aljazeera.com/video/europe/2012/07/201271654749156813.html

I'm liking this Repair Café concept, especially if it helps people to be more self-reliant by teaching them skills to do some of it themselves. The idea of "repair and reuse" seems highly mustachian to me.

And just 3% of Dutch waste going into landfills! The UK rate in 2008 was an eye-watering 48%. The Finns create less than half the amount of waste per person compared to Brits and Americans. Maybe those crazy European socialists can teach us something after all...

[gooki]

Makes me proud to be a Dutchman.

[velocistar237]

I remember seeing something like this in the U.S., only it was a weekly meeting where anyone could bring anything, and a few general repair experts would fix it while explaining the fix. I poked around on Google but couldn't find a link.