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Description
Tallinn Waste Plan foresees combining reuse and repair rooms with every present civic amenity site. In this project 2 reuse rooms (people can give/take re-usable goods for free) and 4 repair workshops (to mend different items, eg. furniture, textile, wood items, bicycles) will be created. The reuse and repair rooms are targeted to different age groups from kindergarten kids to eldery. The creation of Reuse and Repair Centres will enliven the local community life and give residents the opportunity to develop and practice the circular economy themselves. As a result of this project the number of reused items is increased and the amount of waste generated is reduced.
Summary of project results
The aim was to promote the repair of broken items and to direct usable items into reusing. For that different opportunities needed to be created for residents in the urban space to recycle their decent things and repair broken things instead of throwing them away.
During the project, a reuse room (for giving/taking things free of charge) and a repair workshop were created at the Pääsküla waste station where all the main repair tools for repairing various items (e.g. bicycles, buggies, toys, chairs-tables) are represented. A wood repair workshop was created next to the Paljassaare waste station, where old wooden furniture, windows, doors and other wooden parts belonging to buildings can be repaired. Also make new items. A sewing workshop was created next to the store of MTÜ Uuskaustuskeskus Sõprus pst 255, so that it is possible to give a new face to clothing items that need repair. All necessary equipment that is needed for reuse room (for free giving/taking of things), a sewing workshop (textile repair) and a furniture repair workshop (furniture repair, restoration) was purchased for the Lilleküla circular economy center.
As this was a pilot, then after implementation, this project was a successful pilot. Citizens of Tallinn (also everybody else who is interested) have now the possibility to use reuse centres, sewingrooms, furniture repair rooms and wood repair room. This means prolonging the usage of items and therefore less waste is created.
Summary of bilateral results
Representatives from the City of Oslo shared best practices on Oslo''s repair points and recycling solutions. The main result was a visit to Oslo that was put together by the representatives from the city of Oslo. They also sent a video clip for the final seminar of the project, where they reflected the cooperation between the project partners and the partner of the donor country and what they learned from it. Communication with the representatives of the city of Oslo has continued both in relation to project activities and non-project topics. For example, Talinna also plans to add reuse rooms in containers to other existing waste stations. Oslo has provided input from its own mobile container specification to procure the containers.