Protecting the environment can be as simple as repairing an item instead of replacing it. Consider this, if you add 50% more useful life to an item, you have reduced the impact of that item by 33%! To go a step further, you have saved money too. The amount of energy and CO2 released from production to delivery of goods is huge, all of these impacts are reduced when we repair items.

Check out the related link for a list of items that repair well.