Repair businesses provide antidote to throwaway culture (BBC)
 

from the BBC:

The hall of a primary school in Brooklyn is unusually busy for a Saturday morning.
This is a "pop-up repair" event, and it is drawing in the crowds. Parents and children from around the neighbourhood have brought in their broken things to be fixed by menders, each with their own area of expertise ...

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