SCARCE, based in DuPage County, is hosting several workshops this year with the goal of getting people to keep their stuff rather than throw it away. So far, the organization has put on presentations about knives and bikes, and it has programs queued up on garden tools, lamps and clocks.
While the three R's reduce, reuse and recycle constitute the most well-known mantra of the eco-conscious, Kay McKeen of environmental education nonprofit SCARCE says a fourth 'R' should be added: repair.
"We're excited that in that way of reuse, there's also repair. We're calling repair the fourth R for us," McKeen said."This is kind of a new educational path. Wouldn't it be cool if more groups had resources on it?" The market also will have compost, vegetable seedlings and native plants for sale, alongside educational workshops on outdoor composting, worm composting, chickens in your yard and invasive species.
"Our dream would be to have a whole repair fair, where there's the shovel sharpener at one booth and a knife sharpener at another booth and the clock person here and a lamp person here," she said. "I couldn't even find anybody who would repair anything, much less have money to give them a stipend to help," she said."This time, we want to start repair fairs and have money for stipends and extra flyers. We're trying to get this going. Oak Park has a repair cafe, and there's an international repair cafe organization, but out here in the suburbs, it's really hard to find.
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