Wondering where to repair your electricals? Book to come to Hanwell on Saturday 27 April.
Book and bring along small electricals along to Hanwell Community Centre, Westcott Crescent, W7 1PD on Saturday 27 April. Get an appointment between 1pm-4.20pm where the repair team will have a look and hopefully bring it back to working order. This is a free service with limited spaces available, booking essential. If showing as fully booked, please scroll to other times, as its only the first slot that is fully booked.
West London Central Fixers is here to help repair your loved items. Thanks goes to Ealing Council who arranges regular events for them to fix residents electricals. Book your place before they go! If you prefer you can call Alex on 07773 898806 to book your slot.
If you want to learn how to fix things yourselves, book a 2-hour training session. The sessions are 1pm-3pm or 3pm-5pm for only £19 (with low/no-cost option for the unemployed).
Electronic Waste: The Problem
Electronic waste is a complex issue in the UK. Every year, the UK produce over 53.6 million tonnes of electronic waste, the Restart Project mentions. The UK ranks second to Norway in the most e-waste produced a new study has found. At the same time, manufacturing new devices fuels biodiversity loss, exploitation and greenhouse gas emissions. By using products for longer and repairing them when they break, we can slow these processes down and reduce our impact on the planet.
The implications of the manufacturing electrical devices are far reaching. Electrical devices requires critical raw materials are mined from the land, and the impacts of this mining are often invisible to us. These mining processes require a lot of environmental management and there is a high cost associated with this. Watch this documentary as Greenland considers a proposed mine and its implications. This open pit mine could become the fifth-largest uranium mine and second-biggest rare earth extraction operation in the world.
Then when it comes to recycling the vast majority of these critical raw materials cannot be recycled effectively and many have insignificant rates of recycling. Recyclers are constantly playing catch-up to an ever-faster cycle of new products, new materials and new technologies.Resulting in them having to invent new techniques and business models for processing dead devices. This means the demand for virgin critical raw materials continues to increase with every new product we buy. Listen to Restart Project podcast covering Critical Raw Materials.
Clothes Repair
In Ealing, we also have Ealing Repair Cafe, which teaches you to mend your clothes and has meet ups around Acton and Ealing, see March dates for Ealing Repair cafe
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