Publicize, promote and use the varied businesses/services collecting and marketing used, repaired and rental consumer goods, especially electronics, in the city/county.
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Resources
- For the best, most educational household-level consumption-based GHG calculator, suitable for posting on city waste management/reuse/recycling pages, see the CoolClimate Network carbon footprint page.
- Help is available from ReUSE Minnesota, a non-profit organization who goal is to increase the visibility of MN's reuse sector by highlighting its economic, social and environmental benefits. Rental and sharing businesses arbitrage surplus capacity, increasing the productivity of existing goods and services. Examples include tool and house rental/sharing, coupon businesses helping fill unused restaurant/event seats, shared office and kitchen space, and bike/car rental/sharing. See 32 recommended Policies for Shareable Cities that enable cities to benefit from the sharing economy in the areas of food, jobs, housing, and transportation. The term collaborative consumption describes the shift in consumer values from ownership to access, and how promoters around the world are using network technologies to do more with less by renting, lending, swapping, bartering, gifting and sharing products on a scale never before possible.
- See, for example, Hennepin County's Choose to Reuse directory and their fix-it clinics that pair volunteer repair people with community members who bring in broken household items.
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