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Sustainable Planet

This smartphone company aims for the Right to Repair: “If you can’t open it, you can’t own it”

Supporting the Right to Repair movement and acting up to it by producing easily self-repairable smartphones, Fairphone is an innovator in…

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Sustainable Planet

Fixing#Fashion: making repair, care and upgrade the new fashion

To counter the unsustainable practise of Fast Fashion, a new project called Fixing#Fashion is teaching people how to fix, adapt, repair…

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Inspiring People

IKEA to open first ever second-hand store this year

The Swedish retail giant plans to sell refurbished furniture in the brick-and-mortar store, conveniently located in the ReTuna shopping mall in…

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Better Society

These kids don’t need toys to have a good time

At Repair Kid, children make art out of broken objects. This way they learn how appliances look and work on the…

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Better Society

Repair-Cafés have been popping up all over the world… but what are they?

Repair Cafés are free meeting places that are all about repairing things (together) and stopping tons of serviceable items, from clothing…

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Better Society

Everybody is buying it; Swedens shopping mall just for recycled products.

Shoppers in the Swedish city of Eskilstuna are flocking to ReTuna — just like a regular mall, but dedicated entirely to…

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Better Society

Waste not, want not: Sweden is using tax incentives to encourage repairs

Swedish government tackles 'throwaway culture' by slashing tax on fixing everything from clothing and footwear to bicycles and washing machines.

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This smartphone company aims for the Right to Repair: “If you can’t open it, you can’t own it”

Fixing#Fashion: making repair, care and upgrade the new fashion

IKEA to open first ever second-hand store this year

These kids don’t need toys to have a good time

Repair-Cafés have been popping up all over the world… but what are they?

Everybody is buying it; Swedens shopping mall just for recycled products.

Waste not, want not: Sweden is using tax incentives to encourage repairs

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This smartphone company aims for the Right to Repair: “If you can’t open it, you can’t own it”

Fixing#Fashion: making repair, care and upgrade the new fashion

IKEA to open first ever second-hand store this year

These kids don’t need toys to have a good time

Repair-Cafés have been popping up all over the world… but what are they?

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Everybody is buying it; Swedens shopping mall just for recycled products.

Waste not, want not: Sweden is using tax incentives to encourage repairs