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“It’s not every day that a municipal waste department spends more time thinking about saving things than dumping them. In Hamburg in Germany, however, there’s money to be made in the second-hand market, and who better to capitalize on that than the people who haul the city’s trash?
Stilbruch is the “IKEA of used goods,” and every day, collections from private individuals—or from trash collectors on their routes—brings goods which will all get cleaned up, repaired, and re-sold to support a more circular economy in the country’s second-largest city.
Some 400,000 objects are processed through two giant cavernous warehouses every year; everything from well-worn teddy bears to refurbished laptops and kitchen counters.
Launched in 2001 as an initiative from the sanitation department, Stilbruch has gone from having one full-time employee to 70, and from being a largely non-profit orientation to bringing in €300,000 to €500,000 ($330,000 to $550,000) per year in profit.
“These things are useful. They really aren’t rubbish,” Roman Hottgenroth, operations manager at Stilbruch, told The Progress Network. “Used is the new sexy… We are trying to stop throwaway culture and wastefulness. There’s so much value in what we treat like trash.”
Stilbruch contracts technicians and craftsmen who ensure that all used furniture is given a thorough beautification, and all electronics can be sold with a 1-year warranty.
The warehouse is part of a wider EU movement to try and cut back on all waste streams, but especially home furnishings and electronics. Chief among these efforts is restoring the “right to repair,” to consumers, 70% of whom it’s thought would prefer to repair items than replace them.
Stilbruch has been heralded by EU and German legislatures and think-tanks as a pioneering model that could be replicated by most municipalities.
Even small towns which don’t have the populations required to fill up a warehouse like Stilbruch can manage weekly flea-markets.
As for the future? Hottgenroth is planning to open yet another warehouse, and even to furnish public buses with mini-libraries.”
-via Good News Network, 3/1/22
#right to repair#reuse#slow fashion#zero waste#e waste management#used furniture#germany#hamburg#second hand#thiftstore#furniture restoration#good news#hope
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FAVORITE THIFTED PIECES LET'S GOOO
Upper body edition
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In my constant romantic mind.
I always dream of meeting my future girlfriend at thrift store, or at a crystal shop of where she works, me looking for buy some crystals for myself.
Even a coffee shop. Where she seats a chair, her table cross way from me, sipping her coffee, we locked eyes, she gets up and we spend whole hour making conversation.
The feels, I tell you the feels.
#wlw#lesbian#sapphic#wlw yearning#sapphic yearning#thiftstore#wlw post#hopless romantic#crystalsshopping#coffeeshop#wlw love#wlw longing#sapphic love#wlw mood
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I bought a grandpa sweater c: It looks very silly :∆ Hey, do you know any good sites where you can buy some vintage stuff? I have been looking for a traditional landline telephone for some time ☎️✨
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Love these great finds.
#80s nostalgia#70s#retro aesthetic#vintage#black women#black womens beauty#vintage beauty books#vintage beauty#women#80s beauty#thrifting#thiftstore#books libraries#unique
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#image#mine#images#transparent#png#clothes#t-shirt#t shitrt#shirt#thiftstore#depop#animal#wolf#bald eagle#bird#rat#owl#turtle#sea turtle
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found a Mario Orb today
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goodwill find
#why’s he look like one of the guys from brooks and dunn#thiftstore#goodwill#mine#goodwill finds#north carolina
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i went to the thrift recently and i saw these supacool star pants that would totally belong in some scene kids wardrobe but I HAVE NO SCENE FRIENDS IRL 😭 shits tragic
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Thrift Flip! A Modern Waistcoat to Victorian-Style
#youtube#sewing#DIY#bernadette#victorian#edwardian#thiftstore#thrift flip#alteration#mending#waistcoat#sew it yourself
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Would you guys like to see my best thrifted pieces?
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I forgot I went thrifting, I gotta tmnt backpack, a shirt, some epic pants, twilight sparkle, and ya 🥶🥶 (I saw pants from the 2000s)
#yippee#yayayay#lolz#thiftstore#2000s#thirfting#tmnt#teenage mutant ninja turtles#hehe :3#silly guy#being silly#yayayaya#epic
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Spreading awareness.
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look what i found at the thrift Store!!!!!!!!
#thiftstore#thrifting#2000s aesthetic#early 00s#denim jeans#denim#ootdfashion#ootd#denim with dir#furchst#secondhand
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Food for thought:
I spend a lot of time at antique stores and there’s just so many old ashtrays because there’s not as much demand for them as there used to be. I get so mad every time I see a video of someone making a resin ashtray because there’s so many and they’re so cheap and it’s so mind-numbingly wasteful. If you are someone who needs an ashtray I implore you to go check a secondhand store, you’ll find something infinitely cooler than your $25.99 Etsy monstrosity.
Also, I find they’re pretty useful to have around as an artist. They’re not special- they fulfill the role of any other small dish or tray, but it’s another way to reuse them. Also they just happen to be moulded with indents that fit paint brushes perfectly.
I don’t know why ashtrays stick out to me specifically, there’s so much stuff out there gathering dust on thrift store shelves. Maybe it’s because you don’t see Tiktokers making novelty beer steins or commemorative plates out of alphabet beads and epoxy.
Anyway, go check out your local antique stores. There’s a lot of cool junk out there waiting for a new home <3
#antique#aesthetic#st0ner#w33d#thiftstore#vintage#vintage aesthetic#antique store#ashtray#resin creations#epoxy resin#sustainability#st0ner aesthetic#weed aesthetic#smoke weed everyday#girls who smoke weed#cigarette
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@bunnygirlskull
I found this at the goodwill and thought about you
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