Repairing things rather than replacing them has and will have a fundamental value and importance in the circular economy which we hope will increasingly become the reference model to follow.
International Repair Day is a relatively recent initiative, born in 2017; organized by the Open Repair Alliance, a group that works together to make electronic products more durable and easier to repair, including the Repair Cafe Foundation (Netherlands), The Restart Project (UK), iFixit, Anstiftung Foundation (Germany) and Fixit Clinic (United States).
The essence of International Repair Day is simple: We can all do a little more to take better care of what we own, repairing what is broken and giving objects a new life.
Designed to combat the wastefulness of modern society, International Repair Day is about the value of fixing things. With community repair events taking place around the world and on social media to highlight the benefits of taking care of our belongings.
Investing in the capabilities related to the effectiveness and efficiency inherent in repairs creates value and helps develop fundamental capabilities inherent in creativity, elegance and stubbornness.
An important day to raise awareness, promote and share the meaning of repair as the basis for a circular economy that is attentive to the waste of resources so that, the next time something breaks, the reflex is no longer to throw it away or abandon it in a closet, but to try to fix it.