#RepairCafé In #EastBrunswickNJ Will Help Keep Items Out Of Landfills
by Sarah Salvadore, January 9, 2025
EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ — "The East Brunswick Public #Library and the East Brunswick #Sustainability Task Force are organizing their first-ever Repair Café.
"This community-based initiative will help residents keep still usable items out of landfills by promoting repairs instead of throwing them out.
"Any item in need of repairs can be brought in to be fixed on the spot. Volunteer repairers will be on hand to help.
"Residents can bring clothing/textiles (shirts, pants, sweaters, knitted blankets, etc.) and jewelry (bracelets, necklaces, earrings, etc.).
"Examples of repairs can be an afghan with moth holes, pants with a tear in the knee, broken links on necklaces and bracelets that are coming undone.
"The Repair Café will be held at the library, 2 Jean Walling Civic Center Drive, on Sunday, Jan. 26 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m."
Source:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/repair-caf%C3%A9-in-east-brunswick-will-help-keep-items-out-of-landfills/ar-BB1rbcY6
#SolarPunkSunday #RepairCafes #RightToRepair #DIY #PlannedObsolescence #FixIt
by Sarah Salvadore, January 9, 2025
EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ — "The East Brunswick Public #Library and the East Brunswick #Sustainability Task Force are organizing their first-ever Repair Café.
"This community-based initiative will help residents keep still usable items out of landfills by promoting repairs instead of throwing them out.
"Any item in need of repairs can be brought in to be fixed on the spot. Volunteer repairers will be on hand to help.
"Residents can bring clothing/textiles (shirts, pants, sweaters, knitted blankets, etc.) and jewelry (bracelets, necklaces, earrings, etc.).
"Examples of repairs can be an afghan with moth holes, pants with a tear in the knee, broken links on necklaces and bracelets that are coming undone.
"The Repair Café will be held at the library, 2 Jean Walling Civic Center Drive, on Sunday, Jan. 26 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m."
Source:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/repair-caf%C3%A9-in-east-brunswick-will-help-keep-items-out-of-landfills/ar-BB1rbcY6
#SolarPunkSunday #RepairCafes #RightToRepair #DIY #PlannedObsolescence #FixIt
sobroquet •
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-07-15/rise-of-single-use-vapes-sending-tonnes-of-lithium-to-landfill/
Rise of single-use vapes sending tonnes of lithium to landfill
Matthew Chapman (The Bureau of Investigative Journalism)GlennMG hat dies geteilt
LukefromDC •
Some say there will never be another civilized species on Earth because humans are playing out all the mines. I think a ten million year old landfill would simply be a new mine. Hopefully by then the garbage would be gone. The main environmental negative of mining would then probably be discharge of microplastics. The mines would produce iron ore (Iron rusts back to a good ore), aluminum at least some of it in its native state, copper and copper oxide free of arsenic, possibly usable premade brass-and every metal ever used in batteries with the possible exception of lead.
Lead-acid battery recycling managed to catch 95% of the lead content of all lead acid batteries made. Lead acid though is a few big batteries (mostly car batteries) that with make the trash can too heavy to lift if thrown in the trash. Not so with a lot of tiny lithium batteries of either the single-shot or rechargeable type.
These being rechargabe lithium cells, the spent vapes might actually be worth dumpstering to re-use the batteries in things like small electrically powered drones, by the parallel pack as phone batteries, etc etc etc. They've only been used ONCE. Do wear a mask and handle with gloves until the batteries have been extracted from the vapes due to covid/flu/RSV/cold hazards of handling stuff that's been in many people's mouths of course!