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World Service,02 Oct 2018,30 mins

Mending Our Disposable Culture

People Fixing the World

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Volunteers around the world regularly get together to fix other people’s broken stuff free of charge. Reporter Nick Holland visits an event called a Repair Café in the Netherlands and links up with a team running a similar workshop in India. He asks what difference this 'make do and mend’ movement can make to our disposable culture Photo Caption: Repairing a radio with a soldering iron Photo Credit: BBC

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