Larger Manchester is marking Restore Week 2024 (11-17 March 2024) with a rallying name for a ‘restore revolution’, as an eye-opening new survey reveals that greater than £1.2bn is doubtlessly misplaced yearly on throwing away and changing home items that might be repaired.
Analysis commissioned by Recycle for Larger Manchester (R4GM) discovered that final 12 months Larger Manchester residents threw away an estimated £417 million* price of things that would have been repaired as an alternative. An extra £809 million* was then spent on changing the broken or damaged objects.
The figures present that, on common, residents have 5 damaged or broken home items that they imagine might be repaired. The commonest issues reportedly thrown away are garments, kettles, hairdryers, headphones and toasters.
By means of a sequence of occasions and workshops throughout Larger Manchester this week (11-17 March), R4GM might be shining a highlight on the influence of waste and goals to empower residents to find out how they’ll get monetary savings – and defend the setting – by repairing the objects many instinctively throw away. Quite a lot of neighborhood organisations working throughout our city-region might be showcasing their work in supporting residents to restore too.
Restore Week goals to deal with the monetary and environmental impacts of this waste head-on, and spotlight the ways in which folks throughout Larger Manchester can restore objects or move them on to be rehomed and resold.
Cllr Tom Ross, GMCA’s lead for the Inexperienced Metropolis-Area and Waste and Recycling, stated:
“Larger Manchester is dwelling to so many restore heroes, and we’re proud to shine a highlight on the sensible work they do. I’m delighted to see neighborhood teams from throughout the city-region getting concerned with Restore Week to encourage residents to maintain their home items in use for so long as potential, and to exhibit the numerous choices for restore on peoples’ doorsteps.
“All of us discover it irritating when a number of the items we purchase value extra to restore than exchange – however there are such a lot of home items that may be given a brand new lease of life at low value. That’s why, by way of incredible assets just like the Renew Hub and Renew Retailers, we need to assist folks to learn to get monetary savings, or get a cut price on good-quality objects which were repaired, particularly throughout the ongoing cost-of-living disaster.
“I hope that this 12 months’s Restore Week can kickstart a restore revolution in Larger Manchester that won’t simply save folks cash, but additionally assist us lower down on what we throw away and defend the setting. It’s a good way for residents to get in contact with restore occasions of their native space.”
This 12 months, Restore Week gives residents the prospect to talk to our restore and reuse consultants on the Renew Hub in Trafford, and to see what goes in to repairing widespread home items similar to bikes, electricals, upholstery and extra.
There might be a guided tour of the Renew Hub in Trafford Park on Monday (March 11) to go behind the scenes and get an understanding of waste and recycling in Larger Manchester. Then on Tuesday (March 12) on the Hub a Restore Honest is being held the place folks can be taught from the consultants to see how they restore and refurbish objects.
The Renew Hub and Retailers have raised greater than £1m for charity by repairing items donated by Larger Manchester residents, exhibiting what will be potential by repairing somewhat than discarding objects starting from bikes to white items.
Cash raised by way of the Renew Hub and Renew Retailers additionally helps assist tasks by way of the Recycle for Larger Manchester Neighborhood Fund, together with community-led actions and programmes similar to restore cafes and textile upcycling programs – that means residents can discover assist with repairing their home items all 12 months spherical. These neighborhood teams are additionally being showcased throughout Restore Week, giving residents the chance to find long run restore assist of their native space.
In addition to workshops and different restore periods, there are a variety of free movies on the Recycle for Larger Manchester web site providing sensible steering for repairing many home items.
An inventory of the actions and occasions going down, together with on the Renew Hub, will be discovered right here.
