ABSTRACT
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 be disposed of and replaced. Repair cafés are a grassroots solution to extending product life cycles and slowing down resource consumption. This chapter discusses the findings of a global survey of repair café volunteer motivations, activities undertaken and expectations for the future at 317 repair cafés in 10 countries. The results suggest that repair cafés could have an increasing influence on the drive to improve product reparability and play a greater role in local repair ecosystems.
