Saturday 9 November, from 15 to 19 at Bookique, the restaurant in Via Torre D’Augusto 29 in Trento, the Repair Cafe returns, the event organized by HIT – Trentino Innovation Hub that invites fans of the bricolage culture to give a second life to electrical and electronic appliances that no longer work.
The meeting is open to everyone, experts and the curious will be able to bring a medium-small format object and try to repair it alongside professional repairers, including some repairers who usually participate in other Repair Cafes in Italy and abroad.
How many times have we thought "I don't need it anymore, but better to keep it, it can always be useful"?
Meanwhile, our homes have been filled with objects that could potentially find new life, or that simply should be disposed of in the right way, delivered to the appropriate provincial centers that deal with collecting electrical and electronic waste. Trentino Innovation Hub organizes the Repair Cafe initiative in the framework of the European project Raw Engagement for Electronics Repair (REFER), funded by the European Institute of innovation and technology (EIT) – KIC Raw Materials to promote economic and environmental sustainability.
The Repair Cafe is an international format that has taken off a lot in recent times, but it is also and above all an opportunity to discuss with other experts and enthusiasts about the culture of shelter, regarding the ethical aspects, economic, social and environmental issues concerning electrical and electronic waste.
Because the issue of so-called WEEE concerns everyone and is an urgent matter. To get an idea of the phenomenon, just think that according to the report published by theInternational Telecommunication Union in 2017, 44.7 million tons of electronic waste were produced in Europe, of which only 20% was collected and then properly recycled. And the trend is set to grow: it is estimated that in 2021 the share is expected to increase to 52.2 million tons.
To stay in Italy, consider that according to the WEEE Coordination Center, the central body that deals with optimizing the collection, collection and management of waste from electrical and electronic equipment, in 2018 a total of 310,610 tons of electronic waste were collected, managed "officially" in the Italian system. And if the collection of WEEE per capita in Italy stops at 4.89 kg per inhabitant, England, France and Germany register, respectively, 7.98 kg per inhabitant, 10.29 kg per inhabitant and 9.76 kg per inhabitant.
The collection of WEEE per capita in Trentino Alto Adige is 7.37 kg per inhabitant, among the best results in Northern Italy and the fourth at national level. Our region instead holds the second place in the number of collection centers per capita thanks to 20 structures per 100,000 inhabitants.
There production of electrical devices and electronic has grown exponentially in recent decades and consequently also the flow of waste generated by this type of production.
The great technological development that characterizes the advanced economies is at a turning point. items such as computers, smartphones, batteries, TVs, electronic games, washing machines, dishwashers, ovens, refrigerators, air conditioners, but also light sources and other small appliances, have become waste to be managed and rethought. Yes, because where there is an urgent market demand, a market offer that meets the demands of this demand can arise.
Today waste is an input for the development of new business models, a stimulus to the creation of green companies that develop systems to regenerate and re-use the critical raw materials that we set aside, so as to transform waste into resources, in a perspective of circular economy.
The Rapair Cafe is part of a three-day meeting dedicated to the theme of the circular economy organized by Hub Innovazione Trentino, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, University of Trento and MUSE. The initiative is realized in collaboration with Cooperativa Kaleidoscopio, Aps Carpe Diem, Enactus Trento, CoderDolomiti, MUSE and the Fablab of the Department of Information Engineering and Computer ScienceUniversity of Trento.
Among the upcoming events also: "Re-Play: the new value of resources in the circular economy", scheduled for Friday 8 November from 5 to 7.30 pm at FBK, via S. Croce 77 in Trento.
It is a event open to the public with experts in research and innovation involved in the circular economy organized by HIT – Trentino Innovation Hub and Bruno Kessler Foundation.
The initiative is part of a 3-day meeting on circular economy present in the projects that FBK, UNITN, Muse and HIT have developed over the years (Refer, EM @ S AWARE Innoweee co-financed by EIT) and includes the launch of the last of these: Re-Play.
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