From the street to the boardroom: We're delighted that Restart has been accepted as a member of the new EU’s Ecodesign Forum! The post Ecodesign Forum, here we come! appeared first on The Restart Project.| The Restart Project Blog
For Repair Day we've released two new reports investigating the story of community repair around the world and the state of reuse at waste facilities in the UK. The post Repair Day 2024: A birthday, a wasted opportunity and the growth of repair appeared first on The Restart Project.| The Restart Project Blog
Join our investigation into how much reuse happens in the UK's household waste industry. Is reuse really a priority? The post Does your recycling centre offer reuse options? Join our investigation appeared first on The Restart Project.| The Restart Project Blog
We're delighted to have been awarded the European Union Prize for Citizen Science—Digital Communities Award for our work with repair data and policy campaigning. The post We won the European Union Prize for Citizen Science—Digital Communities Award! appeared first on The Restart Project.| The Restart Project Blog
We’ve been working to expand the directory to cover 8 new boroughs in West London and we've managed to add 147 businesses to the directory! The post The Repair Directory now has 300 listings following our West London expansion! appeared first on The Restart Project.| The Restart Project Blog
We used our data about broken electronics to learn why they break, focusing on printers, tablets and batteries. Now we’re using these lessons to push for pro-repair regulation. The post Why our electronics break: what we can learn from nearly 10 years of repairs appeared first on The Restart Project.| The Restart Project Blog
“BattCat” is our latest interactive, people-powered investigation into why devices fail. This time we’re asking for your help to learn why repairs involving batteries at community events are often too hard to complete. The post Help us learn why batteries are too hard to replace appeared first on The Restart Project.| The Restart Project Blog
Tablets break easily and can be hard to repair. In fact most don't last as long as porridge oats in the cupboard. Help us learn why by playing "Tabicat", a fun way to collaboratively analyse community repair data. The post How do tablets break? Help us find out! appeared first on The Restart Project.| The Restart Project Blog
Printers can be frustrating - easy to break and hard to fix. Join PrintCat to help us learn why they fail and push for more repairable future models The post Help us learn more about printers with PrintCat appeared first on The Restart Project.| The Restart Project Blog
We've been hard at work here at Restart on a new project to explore our repair data and our environmental impact together. We're happy to announce the support of ACTION (Participatory science toolkit against pollution) project, who are helping us incorporate "citizen science" approaches to our data work. The post Exploring our repair data and our environmental impact together appeared first on The Restart Project.| The Restart Project Blog
After more than a year of surveys, interviews with group organsiers and repairers, design and development work, we’re delighted to announce that we’ve now added support for non-electrical/electronic items in our repairs database, the "Fixometer" The post You can now record non-electronic items on the Fixometer appeared first on The Restart Project.| The Restart Project Blog
Many groups in our network are using our software to log community repair data after events. We asked some of them to tell us more about their experience with data. What motivated them to start recording data at repair events? What have they used repair data for? The post Repair data: why community groups collect and share appeared first on The Restart Project.| The Restart Project Blog