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Have you ever found a raclette oven in your kitchen that you’d forgotten existed? And when you plug it in, you realize that it doesn’t work anymore?

Many of us have made this observation: we have too many objects. And their lifespan is getting shorter and shorter. In fact, warranties only last for two years, and after that, our appliances usually end up in landfill sites, because they can’t be repaired.

So is it inevitable? No! In the ninth episode of the “2040 I’m going” podcast, we explore alternatives to this model.

For this, I invite you to meet:
🔸 Nikola Sanz, from the l’Ecrou workshop. A community project launched by young enthusiasts who dismantle and repair just about everything in existence, with the aim of contributing to a more sustainable world.
🔸 Adèle Thorens, lecturer at HEIG-VD and former member of the Council of States, who has been involved in the fight against the obsolescence of our objects for over fifteen years.

Finally, we’ll take a trip to the year 2040 to imagine a future in which remanufacturing has become the norm, and in which the career of repairer has become more highly prized than that of manager. A podcast proposed by Chantal Peyer.

Interview: Chantal Peyer
Production: Aline Blanchard

A few images from the l’Ecrou workshop in Nyon

References
– Association l’Ecrou
– Coalition longue vie à nos objets
– The website of the ” Right to Repair ” coalition, which brings together players from 21 countries.
– European Coalition against Programmed Obsolescence
– Guide “Making repairs accessible”, the sustainability club
– Workshops and places to repair objects: www.repair-cafe.ch; www.ge-repare.ch; archipel Sion; Lausanne répare; l’atelier Cossonay; Neuchâtel- ne jetez plus! Fribourg repairs
– Buy, sell, barter: www.ge-reutilise.ch and www.lausanne-reutilise.ch
– Borrow objects with object libraries: www.lamanivelle.ch

To find out more: recommendations from Payot booksellers
Want to know more about this topic? Here are the recommendations of Kathleen, bookseller at Payot Rive Gauche, Geneva:
– L’économie circulaire – Agir pour une Suisse durable, Dunia Brunner, Nils Moussu, 2023.
– L’économie circulaire, Aggeri, Franck, 2023.
– Croissance soutenable? La société au défi de l’économie cirulaire, Grosse, François, 2023.
– Activating the circular economy, Buttin, Nicolas ; Saffre, Brieuc, 2015, éditions Eyrolle.

Support
The podcast “2040, j’y vais!” is made possible thanks to the support of the Giovannini Foundation, the canton of Vaud, the city of Fribourg, the city of Meyrin, HEKS, One Planet Lab and Services Industriels de Genève. We would also like to thank our distribution partners: the Impact Hub Lausanne-Geneva, the Swiss Business Federation and sanu.