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Repair Initiatives
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Key Facts
Repair cafés offer essential, free repair services that benefit councils by reducing waste, fostering local resilience, and promoting community engagement.
Over the past two years, repair cafés have prevented an estimated 38 tonnes of waste and diverted about 250 tonnes of CO2 emissions.
Want to know more about repair & waste minimisation?
Check out Repair Network Aotearoa!
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How Councils Can Help
Local councils can significantly boost community repair by financially supporting repair cafés and repair education. They can also champion increased repair visibility and accessibility by integrating repair into existing infrastructure and creating local repair service maps.
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Questions for candidates
What will you do, if elected, to fund and support community repair in Auckland?
Do you support the Consumer Guarantees (Right to Repair) Amendment Bill?
Where to ask these questions?
Ask these questions and more, at your local meet the candidate events, submit questions to local media, or send them directly to candidates via email or social media.
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