SALEM – Do n’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, sharpen knives, tinker with or rewire electronics and lamps, computer diagnostics, glue wooden furniture and ceramics and more. Please keep in mind these services may change as we confirm volunteers.
This Repair Café is scheduled for Saturday, November 4th 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 greensalem.recycling@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 six terracycle brigades of otherwise hard-to-recycle items. Swiffers, razors, dental care items, deoderant containers and caps, Rubbermaid and other brands of plastic or glass containers and lids, and Brita brand dispensers, pitchers and filters 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 the amount of waste we send to landfills,” 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!
