THE DATE for this month's Repair Cafe in Mold has been set.
The Repair Cafe have announced they will make their return to the Parklands Community Centre on Sunday, May 21.
Mold's Repair Cafe meets on the last Sunday of every month at Parkfields Community Centre to help residents fix items free of charge instead of throwing them away and going to landfill.
More and more pop-up cafes are springing up around the country and are solely run by volunteers.
A spokesperson for Mold's Repair Cafe said: "In our ‘throwaway society’ once stuff stops working the temptation is to throw it away and buy a new one.
"This saves money for the households, prevents items going to landfill or incineration and reduces the volume of raw materials and energy needed to make new products.
"It cuts CO2 emissions, for example, because manufacturing new products and recycling old ones causes CO2 to be released.
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"According to the Farnham Repair Cafe calculator, saving 71 items from landfill equates to a reduction of 2,335kg of CO2, which is the equivalent of flying 14,243 miles.
"We throw away vast amounts of stuff. Even things with almost nothing wrong which could get a new lease of life after a simple repair.
The next Mold Repair Cafe is on Sunday, May 21, 11am to 1pm at Parkfields Community Centre, Ash Grove, Mold, CH7 1TB.
The group is always looking to recruit new volunteers, if anybody can help out they are urged to contact moldrepaircafe@outlook.com
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