Repair cafés waging war on throwaway culture
As a repair café volunteer, I've found two drawbacks to being a volunteer/having repair cafés:- A small subset of people buy shitty products (1$ bicycle lamps, lights, cheap-as-shit appliances like clocks, hoovers, …). I have no problem fixing stuff, and showing them how to fix stuff, but I always refuse to try to repair really cheap stuff. It's not even repairing at this point, but more sticking it back together.  When this case happens, I explain in good term that they should buy a slightly better quality next time; it'll last them longer- these cafés attract in general "alternative" people. I've got no problem with that, but I'm a bit fed up with conspirationists, anti-nuclear, really left-wing people.But in general, it's a really rewarding experience !