Thanks for sharing your thoughts Chris. I think I see where you’re coming from.
At the moment, the intention is to help individual groups communicate and celebrate their impact, rather than focus on the collective stats for any given country. (Ultimately, we’re not in competition anyway).
I agree that it’s the residual effect of fixing something that we need to express somehow, hence the plan to use CO2e saved as our primary metric. I think the thing we’re grappling with is how to visualise what ‘x kg of CO2e’ actually means, as it’s a pretty abstract measurement for most people.
Totally agree too that recording more detailed repair data can make the figures more accurate. For reference, it is possible to record individual items, including toasters. There are currently 47 items categories available - more info on those here: How to log repair data from your event. Happy to help if you’d like more info about how that all works 