The Edinburgh Remakery

Ending Waste, Repair and Reuse Skills, Promoting Sustainability

We champion the circular economy by stopping valuable items and materials – such as electronics – from going to landfill and causing pollution. Instead, we take in working and broken electronic devices, and repair and refurbish these, ready for them to be passed on and used again. We reuse everything we possibly can, and responsibly recycle only those elements that we can’t.

Our Tech Donation Boxes make it easy for members of the public to pass on their old electronic devices to us instead of throwing them away, and our Tech Disposal Service means that businesses can donate their old equipment to us safely and securely. Through these avenues we saved 39 tonnes of electronics from landfill in 2021.

Our workshops not only aim to build confidence and improve mental wellbeing, they also empower members of our community with the skills they need to live more sustainably.

So much of the carbon emissions produced are through the production of new items. By promoting sustainability and repairing and reusing goods already in existence The Edinburgh Remakery prevents the need for more items to be produced, providing an environmentally-sound alternative to buying new. Reusing also prevents items going to landfill and causing pollution, stopping harmful chemicals and carbon emissions from being released in the process.

By championing the circular economy and promoting sustainable ways of living, we can provide a solution to pollution and the climate crisis.

Our workshops are centred around sustainable training in repair and reuse, providing techniques in mending, altering, remaking, and reimagining, we utilise ‘waste’ materials that would normally go to waste, such as old books or scraps of fabric, to fix or improve other items, or to make something new. Not only do these repair skills prevent waste, they can also save people money by diminishing the need to buy new/providing them with a sustainable alternative to buying new.