How these Aussie cafes are keeping laptops out of landfill

Repair cafés are part of a growing culture of re-use, recycle and repair around Australia as garbage levels soar and recycling systems break down.

Tom McIlroyCanberra Bureau Chief

Oct 23, 2023 – 10.00am

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Leaving Sydney to retire on the New South Wales south coast, Deb Stevenson faced a dilemma all too common for Australians trying to do the right thing by the environment.

Settling in a community with only the most basic recycling services, Stevenson wasn’t confident that efforts to minimise the environmental footprint of her household were enough to really make a difference.

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Tom McIlroyCanberra Bureau ChiefTom McIlroy is the Financial Review’s Canberra bureau chief based in the press gallery at Parliament House. He was previously the AFR’s political correspondent.