Grant funding is on a two-year cycle applications for 2023-2025 will begin in April. The state Department of Ecology’s Public Participation Grants provide up to $60,000 a year for nonprofits and individuals for programs to increase public participation in and understanding of reducing solid waste. Information about JeffCo Repair can be found at. “Newer stuff is not made to be taken apart, it’s snapped together or glued instead of screwed,” he said. It is recently manufactured items that can prove to be a challenge or impossible to repair, Ehnebusake said. “They’re fun because they’re simple and easy to fix.” “People have grandma’s old lamp, lamps with sentimental value, lamps from the 1920s and 1930s,” Ehnebusake said. Volunteer Dave Ehnebusake said that, included among the items he has fixed at JeffCo Repair are DVD players, VCRs, micro-cassette recorders, Roombas, a jigsaw and lots and lots of lamps. Others, like a broken pink retractable dog leash a woman hoped could be repaired, could not be fixed. We need to harness that internal community capacity to repair and reuse and keep these things out of the waste stream.”Ībout 84 percent of the items people have brought to JeffCo Repair have been fixed. “We need to reduce our consumption, reuse what already exists. “We recognize that no amount of recycling, no amount of incineration is going to solve our waste problems,” Wimberley said. Washington state is a leader when it comes to repair events, she said. It’s a throwaway society, especially things that are still useful.”Įncouraging communities to come together to contribute to solutions that reduce solid waste by hosting events like repair cafes and tool libraries, where people can borrow what they need and return it when they’re done, is critical to the Department of Ecology’s goal of reducing solid and toxic waste, said Faith Wimberley, the Public Participation Grant manager. “People often don’t have the tools to do it themselves. “I think this is a great idea,” Bise said. Over the course of five JeffCo Repair events last year, volunteers repaired 136 household items and helped prevent items that still had life in them from being turned into 838 pounds of solid waste.ĭavid Bise brought a hoe and a spade to the event, where two volunteers were ready to sharpen by garden tools, hand knives, blades and shears. JeffCo Repair was funded with a two-year $115,579.78 Public Participation Grant from the state Department of Ecology and with support from Local 20/20. “I heard they were doing this, and I wanted to come out and support them,” Scruggs said. Scruggs said the clothes were too nice to throw away and the fixes were small, but they needed an expert hand like Lalish’s to mend them.
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