Repair Cafe
SalemRecycles to Host Repair Café
Salem Residents are Invited to have Broken Items Fixed
Don’t throw away your broken item – bring it to the Repair Café! Mayor Dominick Pangallo today announced that SalemRecycles is hosting an upcoming Repair Café. Repair volunteers will be available to mend clothing, sew buttons, tinker with or rewire electronics and lamps, diagnose computers/phones/tablets, glue wooden furniture and ceramics, repair or tune up bicycles, and more. Please keep in mind these services may change as we confirm volunteers.
This Repair Café is scheduled for Saturday, February 10th from 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM at the Community Life Center at 401 Bridge Street in Salem. Appointments are required, and walk-ins will not be accepted. Appointments are free to Salem residents. To request an appointment, please complete this form. If you cannot access the form, please email SalemRecycles@gmail.com.
This Repair Café and Terracycle Collection is a free event designed to help attendees repair broken items so that they do not end up in the waste stream. In addition to repairing broken items, attendees will also be able to recycle five terracycle brigades of otherwise hard-to-recycle items. Swiffers (all used, dried Swiffer pads); razors (All brands of reusable and disposable razors, blades & cartridges, as well as any flexible or rigid plastic packaging they come in); dental care items (Toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes, mouthwash bottles, floss containers – all brands, plus toothbrush packaging); deoderant containers and caps (all brands); and Brita brand items (Brita dispenser, Brita pitchers, Brita bottles, Brita standard filters, Brita Stream filters, Brita bottle filters, Brita filter packaging, Brita Longlast® filters, Brita Stream® pitchers) are being collected.
“As a certified Green Community, Salem has worked hard to protect our local environment, lessen our contributions to the climate crisis, and reduce our waste,” Mayor Dominick Pangallo said, “I am proud of our community’s ongoing commitment to addressing the challenges before us and view this is as another important step in that ongoing work. I’m grateful to the volunteers and city staff who are making this creative and fun community-building solution possible.”
We hope to see you at this fun event where you can learn how to fix things and reduce your waste!
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Janelle Rolke
Waste Reduction Coordinator
City of Salem
978-619-5672 x46204| jrolke@salem.com