Repair Cafés: Implementing Circular Economy Innovation (Impact)
Charter, Martin (2020) Repair Cafés: Implementing Circular Economy Innovation (Impact). UCA.
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The impacts created by Professor Martin Charter and The Centre for Sustainable Design® (CfSD) are in the area of Circular Economy social and business innovation. Impacts are led by new approaches to understanding and developing Repair Cafés:
Farnham Repair Café was set up as a community initiative and ‘living laboratory’ to enable repair at a local level and to develop understanding of the global Repair Café movement’s activities and its participants’ motives. New knowledge amplifies the Repair Café movement’s efficacy as an agent for change.
Farnham Repair Café has saved £105,582 for its visitors, diverting 3.8 tonnes of waste from landfill and preventing 35.5 tonnes of CO2 emissions, and it has supported the setting up of new Repair Cafés elsewhere.
The creation of an online Carbon Calculator tool allows Repair Cafés to quantify the CO2 saved by their repairs enabling the Repair Café movement to make the connection between the Circular Economy and mitigation of climate change.
The Repair Café research is situated within broader Circular Economy innovation research by Charter and CfSD which has led or contributed to:
New British and international standards— BS 8001:2017 is the world’s first standard for businesses implementing circular economy principles; ISO14006:2020 incorporates eco-design in environmental management systems for businesses.
Changes in the knowledge base of policy-makers—including those in the European Commission Directorate-General Research and Innovation Department, and the European Commission Joint Research Centre—leading to new consideration of the Circular Economy in the policies that shape business and the economy.
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