Meixin Comb Brush Machinery
A leader in this industry ,specializing in brush making machine line for more than 14 years.
why can\'t we fix things anymore?
by：MX machinery
2019-08-24
Christine Murphy spent two years listening to a portable radio that only provides AM broadcasts due to damage to the antenna.
A PhD student at Columbia University and a self
She claimed to be news junk and refused to buy a new one, but she did not repair her tools.
So when she learned last spring
She said excitedly that the up repair shop will open in her community in northern Manhattan.
\"I think the idea is great,\" she said . \"
\"I started collecting broken things in my head.
When it opened in June, between a hair salon at a former drugstore and a pizza shop, a group of customers reached out.
Soon, the storefront that starts with the clean and orderly look of the Apple Genius Bar is like the theater workshop on the opening night.
Threads and wire shafts, nuts and screw boxes, glue guns, paint brushes, screwdrivers, auxiliary fixtures and clips are scattered on the counter.
The customer turned around the work table and sewing machine and eagerly shared the story of their broken things, all under the gaze of a savvy Patron saint: MacGyver.
The first thing Murphy fell off was the radio: within a few days she began to enjoy the FM again.
Next, she sent a cracked backpack, a blind window, an iPod that couldn\'t be turned on, a broken headlights, and a second radio.
Each is easily fixed at a total cost of less than $75 and is provided by Sandra Goodmark and Michael Banta, senior professionals at Barnard College to educate and produce theaters and to put carpentry between them, electrical Engineering, rigging, welding, drawing, painting, sewing and model making.
For Goldmark and Banta in pop music
Up Repair Shop is an equivalent component of performing arts, sustainability initiatives, research projects and social activities.
\"We are tired of buying things and throwing them away, whether at the theater or at home, and we want to see if others feel the same way,\" Goldmark told me . \".
If so, will people bring in their broken household items? Why? They conducted a detailed survey of Barnard\'s funding, tracking the level of demand and response to the community repair shop.
Maintenance enterprises nationwide
Except for those who handle computers.
It has been declining for decades.
For example, before World War II, there were more than 100,000 shoe repair shops in the country;
About 7,000 now.
Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics include
The electrical repair on its disappearing work list.
\"I don\'t see a trend for them to come back,\" said Neil seldeman, director of the Local Self-Reliance Institute, a non-profit organization that advocates environmental friendly and equitable community development.
\"The manufacturer makes it impossible to fix the product.
They don\'t sell parts because they don\'t want people to fix their products.
They want them to buy something new.
Although it\'s not part of the well-
Known triad, \"fix\" partner with \"reuse\" in reduction, reuse, recycling hierarchy \"-
In terms of the environment, this is a better option than recycling.
Why don\'t we buy something new when we fix it?
No matter how \"green\" it claims to be, making new things almost always requires more energy and materials and has a greater impact on the environment than continuing to use what already exists.
Repairs also produce less air and water pollution compared to recycling, leaving less hazardous waste and creating affordable
Provide quality goods for those who can\'t afford new things.
Nevertheless, communities trying to reduce the accumulation of garbage in landfill sites are often given reuse and repair.
Their public education in re-use and repair (retail information) is far less than recycling, and recycling processes discarded objects in wholesale.
Whether or not consciously, Goldmark and Banta have joined thousands of others in city pockets around the world who have gained power by repairing cafes, collections and downloadable repair manualsit-and-buy-
It is on the treadmill and makes a quiet stand for the environment.
\"The first problem we face is the low price of new goods,\" Goldmark told me . \".
\"Because environmental costs are not included, they are artificially cheap --
Air and water pollution, for example
Used for the extraction of raw materials, manufacturing or distribution.
\"In developing countries, low wages also keep prices low, as do government subsidies for resources such as timber, oil and gas.
If the price tag of these items reflects their real cost, people will be much less likely to buy new products.
Consumers will also make more demands to manufacturers whose products fail too early, and they may be more willing to pay the repairman a living wage.
In four weeks, Goldmark and her colleagues were pleasantly surprised to serve about 200 people and repaired more than 450 objects.
The biggest category is the lights, but the staff are also in the vacuum cleaner, coffee maker, fan, jewelry, textiles, phones, trophies, furniture, plush toys and a cracked two --and-a-half-foot-
Long plastic bag
A gadget that was easily repaired with a small metal plate and a bolt.
The only failure of the couple is Mini.
Fridge and some remote controlControl the car. The shop—
$20 to $40 for most jobs
The money was lost because Goldmark and Banta artificially lowered prices to attract customers.
They want to come up with an idea instead of making a profit.
In fact, they are trying to price and ask the top 25 customers to pay what they think is right.
If Christine Murphy comes at the end of her store term, she may spend $40 fixing the blinds and $15 for the radio.
Goldmark said: \"If we do this again, we will cut the staff and charge more, but not too much.
We still want it to be affordable.
She also asked customers to take another key step: \"I will give them a piece of paper so they can write to the manufacturer of the broken coffee pot\" to express their discontent.
After all, if we don\'t let the company know we\'re unhappy
It is unlikely to buy their products in the future
We can\'t blame them for continuing to trash.
Maybe the most valuable. if subversive—
Lessons from pop music
As consumers, we have a choice: we don\'t have to throw it away when something is broken.
With this alone, the store has achieved great success.
It takes more than a ton of stuff out of the landfill and it encourages customers to participate not only in repairs, but also in other similar activitiesminded people.
Some of them stayed nearby for hours.
Goldmark told me with admiration in her voice --
Learn new skills and gain confidence in trying.
Then, under the spell of MacGyver, they went home to repair it themselves.
A PhD student at Columbia University and a self
She claimed to be news junk and refused to buy a new one, but she did not repair her tools.
So when she learned last spring
She said excitedly that the up repair shop will open in her community in northern Manhattan.
\"I think the idea is great,\" she said . \"
\"I started collecting broken things in my head.
When it opened in June, between a hair salon at a former drugstore and a pizza shop, a group of customers reached out.
Soon, the storefront that starts with the clean and orderly look of the Apple Genius Bar is like the theater workshop on the opening night.
Threads and wire shafts, nuts and screw boxes, glue guns, paint brushes, screwdrivers, auxiliary fixtures and clips are scattered on the counter.
The customer turned around the work table and sewing machine and eagerly shared the story of their broken things, all under the gaze of a savvy Patron saint: MacGyver.
The first thing Murphy fell off was the radio: within a few days she began to enjoy the FM again.
Next, she sent a cracked backpack, a blind window, an iPod that couldn\'t be turned on, a broken headlights, and a second radio.
Each is easily fixed at a total cost of less than $75 and is provided by Sandra Goodmark and Michael Banta, senior professionals at Barnard College to educate and produce theaters and to put carpentry between them, electrical Engineering, rigging, welding, drawing, painting, sewing and model making.
For Goldmark and Banta in pop music
Up Repair Shop is an equivalent component of performing arts, sustainability initiatives, research projects and social activities.
\"We are tired of buying things and throwing them away, whether at the theater or at home, and we want to see if others feel the same way,\" Goldmark told me . \".
If so, will people bring in their broken household items? Why? They conducted a detailed survey of Barnard\'s funding, tracking the level of demand and response to the community repair shop.
Maintenance enterprises nationwide
Except for those who handle computers.
It has been declining for decades.
For example, before World War II, there were more than 100,000 shoe repair shops in the country;
About 7,000 now.
Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics include
The electrical repair on its disappearing work list.
\"I don\'t see a trend for them to come back,\" said Neil seldeman, director of the Local Self-Reliance Institute, a non-profit organization that advocates environmental friendly and equitable community development.
\"The manufacturer makes it impossible to fix the product.
They don\'t sell parts because they don\'t want people to fix their products.
They want them to buy something new.
Although it\'s not part of the well-
Known triad, \"fix\" partner with \"reuse\" in reduction, reuse, recycling hierarchy \"-
In terms of the environment, this is a better option than recycling.
Why don\'t we buy something new when we fix it?
No matter how \"green\" it claims to be, making new things almost always requires more energy and materials and has a greater impact on the environment than continuing to use what already exists.
Repairs also produce less air and water pollution compared to recycling, leaving less hazardous waste and creating affordable
Provide quality goods for those who can\'t afford new things.
Nevertheless, communities trying to reduce the accumulation of garbage in landfill sites are often given reuse and repair.
Their public education in re-use and repair (retail information) is far less than recycling, and recycling processes discarded objects in wholesale.
Whether or not consciously, Goldmark and Banta have joined thousands of others in city pockets around the world who have gained power by repairing cafes, collections and downloadable repair manualsit-and-buy-
It is on the treadmill and makes a quiet stand for the environment.
\"The first problem we face is the low price of new goods,\" Goldmark told me . \".
\"Because environmental costs are not included, they are artificially cheap --
Air and water pollution, for example
Used for the extraction of raw materials, manufacturing or distribution.
\"In developing countries, low wages also keep prices low, as do government subsidies for resources such as timber, oil and gas.
If the price tag of these items reflects their real cost, people will be much less likely to buy new products.
Consumers will also make more demands to manufacturers whose products fail too early, and they may be more willing to pay the repairman a living wage.
In four weeks, Goldmark and her colleagues were pleasantly surprised to serve about 200 people and repaired more than 450 objects.
The biggest category is the lights, but the staff are also in the vacuum cleaner, coffee maker, fan, jewelry, textiles, phones, trophies, furniture, plush toys and a cracked two --and-a-half-foot-
Long plastic bag
A gadget that was easily repaired with a small metal plate and a bolt.
The only failure of the couple is Mini.
Fridge and some remote controlControl the car. The shop—
$20 to $40 for most jobs
The money was lost because Goldmark and Banta artificially lowered prices to attract customers.
They want to come up with an idea instead of making a profit.
In fact, they are trying to price and ask the top 25 customers to pay what they think is right.
If Christine Murphy comes at the end of her store term, she may spend $40 fixing the blinds and $15 for the radio.
Goldmark said: \"If we do this again, we will cut the staff and charge more, but not too much.
We still want it to be affordable.
She also asked customers to take another key step: \"I will give them a piece of paper so they can write to the manufacturer of the broken coffee pot\" to express their discontent.
After all, if we don\'t let the company know we\'re unhappy
It is unlikely to buy their products in the future
We can\'t blame them for continuing to trash.
Maybe the most valuable. if subversive—
Lessons from pop music
As consumers, we have a choice: we don\'t have to throw it away when something is broken.
With this alone, the store has achieved great success.
It takes more than a ton of stuff out of the landfill and it encourages customers to participate not only in repairs, but also in other similar activitiesminded people.
Some of them stayed nearby for hours.
Goldmark told me with admiration in her voice --
Learn new skills and gain confidence in trying.
Then, under the spell of MacGyver, they went home to repair it themselves.
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