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Saving the Planet, One Broken Toaster at a Time

In the midst of our ‘buy, use, toss’ lifestyle, a sustainable mindset of fixing and reusing items is lost. It seems that the life expectancy of household items is getting shorter, and often people resort to buying new items rather than getting their old items fixed. The Toronto Repair Café plans to reverse this throwaway mentality by making green living consumers more aware of their repair skills and increasing the movement of ‘fixers’ for a repair-driven, environmentally friendly more sustainable future.

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