{"id":47826,"date":"2020-02-06T15:52:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T15:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=47826"},"modified":"2020-02-06T15:52:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T15:52:20","slug":"repair-cafe-a-second-life-for-your-broken-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/science-environment\/repair-cafe-a-second-life-for-your-broken-items","title":{"rendered":"Repair Cafe: a second life for  your broken items"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Have you ever had an item that you didn\u2019t want to throw but just couldn\u2019t repair? Volunteers at Cardiff\u2019s Repair Cafe will try to fix almost anything: we went out to meet them.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/pic1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/pic1-2.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/pic1-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/pic1-2-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/pic1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/pic1-2.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/pic1-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/pic1-2-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Volunteers in Cardiff&#8217;s Repair Cafe tried to fix an old projector<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Zoe and her daughter walk to the table holding their battered silver toaster as though it was a small child or a lost kitten. It hasn\u2019t worked for several months, but they don\u2019t want to buy another one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volunteer Ian pulls a screwdriver from his tool kit and sets to work, pulling out screws and shining the light of his small torch deep into its innards. He\u2019s a university student who\u2019s been volunteering at the cafe for a year and he\u2019s no stranger to the insides of most toasters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every first Saturday of each month, Repair Cafe Wales runs the Cardiff one in Sherman Theatre at Cathays to help local people repair their damaged items for free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/zoe-1024x683-1-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49539\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/zoe-1024x683-1-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49539\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Zoe went to Cardiff&#8217;s Repair Cafe to fix her broken toaster<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really great that these guys are\naround and give things a bit of extra way of life,\u201d said Zoe, the 45 year-old\nCardiff citizen. \u201cThe manufacturers don\u2019t want you to get them repaired. They\njust want you to buy another one. I don\u2019t want all these things going to\nlandfill when it could be easily fixed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zoe doesn\u2019t like to throw things away and she believed her toaster could be quickly fixed, although she didn\u2019t know how to do it by herself. \u201cWe do it more for larger things like the washing machine, but for these (smaller) things, it\u2019s such a throw away culture.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recyclenow.com\/recycling-knowledge\/how-is-it-recycled\/electricals\">Recycle Now<\/a>, Britons consume around 170 million of electrical items every year, with each person buying three electrical devices on average. Electrical items mainly consist of plastics and rare materials such as steel, copper or even gold and the steel contained by one iron can make 13 steel cans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gareth is the organiser of two Repair Cafes in Cardiff. The 34 year-old English teacher volunteered to run the Repair Cafes in Sherman Theatre at Cathays and in Oasis Cardiff at Splott from September 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/Gareth11-1-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/Gareth11-1-1-1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/Gareth11-1-1-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/Gareth11-1-1-1-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/Gareth11-1-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/Gareth11-1-1-1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/Gareth11-1-1-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/Gareth11-1-1-1-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Gareth started organising Cardiff&#8217;s Repair Cafes in September 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Repair Cafe in Cardiff started in 2017, and since then similar cafes have been springing up around Wales in places like Pontypridd, Newport and Swansea. All of them repair items like clothing, household electrics, woodwork, children\u2019s toys and bikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The repairing is for free. \u201cWe don\u2019t expect people to pay for things. They just donate if they want to.\u201d Gareth said. The main cost of a Repair Cafe is the basics involved in the repairing, such as needles, threads and solders, which are normally provided by the cafes and volunteers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are 40 to 50 volunteers on Gareth\u2019 books for two Repair Cafes. He contacts everybody each month and normally 5 to 10 people will turn up on any given Saturday. The most difficult thing is to match volunteers and people who wanted things fixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/DSC0416011-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/DSC0416011-1-1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/DSC0416011-1-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/DSC0416011-1-1-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/DSC0416011-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/DSC0416011-1-1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/DSC0416011-1-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/DSC0416011-1-1-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Volunteer in Cardiff&#8217;s Repair Cafe tried to fix a bag and clothes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou never know who\u2019s going to come through the door with repairs,\u201d said Gareth. \u201cAnd what they are going to want repaired, and you\u2019ll never quite sure who\u2019s going to turn up as volunteers.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One regular at the events is Ian, an electrical engineering student at Cardiff University, from the Philippines. The 20-year-old likes opening up things and repairing them, so he quickly joined as a volunteer when his friend told him about the Repair Cafes last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It usually takes Ian an hour or two to repair one item, and he loves the idea of repairing things very much. He believes it helps people save a lot of money so that they don\u2019t have to buy new stuff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/Ian11-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/Ian11-1-1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/Ian11-1-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/Ian11-1-1-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/Ian11-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/Ian11-1-1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/Ian11-1-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2020\/02\/Ian11-1-1-500x282.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption>Ian joined Cardiff&#8217;s Repair Cafe as a volunteer in 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ian said: \u201cIt\u2019s hard for recycling electronics, because you have to disorder everything. You have to get it off board, take things apart and unscrew things&#8230; Recycling things is good, but there are better ways to save the planet.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just 50 minutes later and Zoe\u2019s toaster is working once again, but not every item that comes through the door can be fixed. \u201cEven if we are unable to fix it, we usually are able to provide useful advice on what the next steps are to get it fixed,\u201d says Gareth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find out more information on Repair Cafe Wales on the website: <a href=\"https:\/\/repaircafewales.org\/\">https:\/\/repaircafewales.org\/<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know even your old toaster could be repaired for free? 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