‘Positive, hopeful, lovely places’: how Britain’s repair shops are cutting waste and giving devices a new lease of life
Boom in fixing rather than throwing away items creates jobs and cuts waste, emissions and costs
There is a pause in the hubbub of conversation in the workshop and everyone watches as a young man plugs in the vacuum cleaner that just minutes earlier had been in several pieces on his workbench.
As the machine whirs into life, the people in the room break out into muted cheers and clapping. There are smiles all round.
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