“The system here promotes throwaway culture,” Echeverria said. “If they have a toaster that breaks, they’re like ‘Oh, I’ll just buy another one!”
She started and launched the Evanston Repair Café in 2018, taking flyers around town, soliciting the curious and the handy alike.“We’ve moved around a bit, but I remember going to the civic center and said, ‘Hey can we [hold] this here?’ They said, ‘Yeah, sure, let’s try it for Earth Day,’ and it’s been going ever since,” except for when they had to pause during COVID, she said.“Landfills are filling, and it takes more energy to produce new things,” said Ouweleen.
Instead of taking your trash to the landfills piled with it, a pool of roughly 15 eager volunteers want to see if they can fix your trash instead.From the smallest jewelry to the biggest wheels, volunteers like Ouweleen fix for fun, and they do it for free.Here, the only thing that needs tossing is “taking broken for an answer.”
“This is something that empowers people, it’s fun, it builds community, it takes stuff away from landfills,” Echeverria said. “It’s a win-win-win.” Bring your broken things to the Evanston Repair Café on Feb. 12, or learn to become a fixer yourself by
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