{"id":1279,"date":"2023-10-31T10:31:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T09:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2023-10-31T10:31:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T09:31:43","slug":"make-do-and-mend-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1279","title":{"rendered":"Make do and mend in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Repair-Cafe-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Repair-Cafe-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1281\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Repair-Cafe-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Repair-Cafe-300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Repair-Cafe-768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Repair-Cafe-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Repair-Cafe-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The 15th of October was International Repair Day, which highlighted the number of fixable items we tend to simply throw away. In the EU alone, 35 million tons of goods that might be repairable go in the bin every year, resulting in more than 261 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions. But the tide might be slowly turning. In recent years, thousands of repair caf\u00e9s have been popping up all over the world. This is my report for Deutsche Welle&#8217;s Inside Europe from my local repair caf\u00e9 near Manchester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/BEVANGER-UK-repair-cafe.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 15th of October was International Repair Day, which highlighted the number of fixable items we tend to simply throw away. In the EU alone, 35 million tons of goods that might be repairable go in the bin every year, resulting in more than 261 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions. But the tide might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1282,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions\/1282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}