M Charter, S Keiller - Designing for the circular economy, 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
Repair cafés are community-centred repair workshops, where volunteer fixers help members of the public to repair and therefore extend the lives of items that might otherwise …
M Meißner - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
In the past few years, policymakers, funders and academics have shown an increasing interest in discussing the potentials of Repair Cafes to contribute towards sustainability …
This short report is a summary of the findings of research undertaken by Professor Martin Charter and Scott Keiller of The Centre for Sustainable Design. Interim data were previously …
The repair industry, consumer expenditure on repair and the number of repair businesses have been steadily decreasing in many European countries over the last 20–40 years. Our …
In the circular economy discourse it is stressed that products ought to be repairable and that repair work is assumed to be growing. However, repair can be organised and performed in …
M Van Der Velden - Journal of cleaner production, 2021 - Elsevier
The notion of a circular economy is often presented in discourses on a more sustainable future. A circular economy proposes more efficient material flows in growth-based economy …
Repair in the context of the circular economy. The growth in sales of household electrical and electronic equipment in recent years, combined with faster product obsolescence, has …
The idea of replacing the broken linear economy with circular forms to help address the current sustainability crisis is gaining world-wide traction in policy, industry, and academia …
Repair is an essential aspect of circular economy (CE) strategies to extend the life of products and materials, and has further been suggested as a key sector to benefit from …