🖨🌏 Oculus 3D-reparo

Given the fashion industry's high emissions – and our country's high inflation – things like second-hand stores and DIY refurbishing projects have become exceedingly popular. 

Now I love a good thrift store find, but for Morley Kert, the mission to save the environment through small daily acts extends to more than the local Goodwill.

It all started when Morley got his first 3D printer. Wanting to put it to good use, the Toronto-local set up shop in a nearby coffee cafe and offered free 3D printing to anyone who needed it. 

• The repairs were small at first: an earpiece of a broken glasses frame, a cracked water-bottle lid, etc. While seemingly insignificant, Morley knew each fixed item was one less piece of trash in a landfill.

♻️🧑‍🔧 Keeping the ball rolling... Following the success of his first event, Morley built a wooden frame that allowed him to bring his 3D printer to a local park. 

The entire contraption is powered by solar panels, aka clean energy (naturally). And since opening up his "workshop" in the park, Morley has fixed an immersion blender, a (very expensive) hair dryer, music stands, and a part for a bicycle, among other things.

🗯 What they're saying: “I’m very interested in not throwing things away,” said one community member in a recap video of Morley's first event. “Of course, everything that is designed nowadays is designed to be thrown away. It can be something as silly as a knob on a fan, and the whole thing ends up in the garbage. Why throw all that away?”