Restarters repair stats - October to December 2024

Here’s the highlights of community repair activity logged in Restarters.net for the months of October, November and December 2024*:

  • :computer: 12,615 items logged
  • :tada: 8,203 fixed
  • :date: 1,063 events listed
  • :toolbox: 32 groups newly registered
  • :woman_mechanic: 251 users newly registered
  • :wastebasket: 24 tonnes estimated waste diverted**
  • :cloud: 188 tonnes estimated CO2e prevented**

Great work as always, everyone!

Looking at the repair rates of different categories:

  Powered Unpowered
Most seen Small kitchen item (857) Clothing/textile (2203)
Most repaired Small kitchen item (421) Clothing/textile (2013)
Best repair rate Sewing machine (69%) Hand tool (95% repaired)
Worst repair rate Flat screen 22-24" (18% repaired) Furniture (75% repaired)

All time totals*:

  • :computer: 129,440 items logged
  • :tada: 82,527 fixed
  • :date: 11,388 events listed
  • :toolbox: 954 groups registered
  • :woman_mechanic: 6,014 users registered

You can view an interactive version of these stats here.


 * At the time of writing.
** How do we measure the environmental impact of events?
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Your data logged in Restarters.net is combined into the larger Open Repair Alliance dataset. You can read more about the overall size and growth of the community repair movement in the report we published for the Open Repair Alliance last year: The Rise of Community Repair: The people and the data creating a movement.

You can see how the activity in Restarters.net has grown over time:

Repair attempts logged each quarter

Events added each quarter

New groups registered each quarter

You can view these charts here.

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