The Repair Movement
Bringing repair and reuse culture back into everyday life — one neighborhood at a time.
● FELTON, CA · SPRING & SUMMER 2026 · A COMMUNITY INITIATIVE
EVENTS THIS SPRING & SUMMER
THINGS WORTH FIXING
COST TO ATTEND
SPEND TIME WITH COMMUNITY
Spring & Summer 2026 
The Repair Movement is a community-led initiative rooted in Santa Cruz County, CA. We believe repair is a radical act — and a practical one. When we fix things instead of throwing them away, we reduce waste, build skills, and reconnect with our neighbors.
This spring and summer, we're hosting four free community events designed to bring people together around the simple idea that what we already have is worth keeping.”
2026 EventsSpend Time With the Community.
Felton Flea Revival: Community Swap Meet
Bring gently used clothing, tools, household goods, and books to exchange with neighbors. Free, open to all.
Repair Day with Repair Café International
Skilled volunteers fix electronics, clothing, furniture, bikes, and small appliances. Bring something broken — leave with it working.
Skill Share Day
Neighbors teaching neighbors: mending, home repair, bike maintenance, tool sharpening, canning, and more.
Felton Flea: The Full Revival
A celebratory end-of-summer flea market. Vendors, community tables, and a festive atmosphere.
▸ Wildfire
▸ Melting Ice Caps
Where waste actually goes
14M
TONS ENTER OCEANS YEARLY
Oceans & Waterways
Plastic fragments, microplastics, and chemical runoff enter rivers long before reaching the sea — often invisible until they accumulate.
40%
OF GLOBAL WASTE
Burned — incineration or open burning
Burned in waste-to-energy plants or openly in unmanaged sites. Marketed as clean, but releases dioxins, mercury, and fine particles into the air.
SOURCES: IUCN, UNEP GLOBAL WASTE MANAGEMENT OUTLOOK 2024, WORLD BANK WHAT A WASTE 3.0, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2B
PEOPLE LACK WASTE COLLECTION — WORLD BANK, 2024
Dumped — landfills & open dumps
40% of all waste ends up in open dumpsites per UNEP. Without formal collection, communities burn or dump — leaching chemicals into soil and groundwater for decades.
60–90%
OF E-WASTE ILLEGALLY TRADED OR DUMPED — UNEP
Sent to other countries
Shipped abroad under the label of recycling. Much is never processed — just relocated, shifting the environmental and health burden to lower-income countries.
∞
PERSISTENCE OF MICROPLASTICS
Broken down into pollution
Degrading materials become microplastics, VOCs, and heavy metals absorbed into the ground we grow food in and the air we breathe.
What We Believe
Useful things should stay useful.
The Repair Movement is a community-led initiative rooted in Santa Cruz County, CA. We believe repair is a radical act — and a practical one. When we fix things instead of throwing them away, we reduce waste, build skills, and reconnect with our neighbors.
This spring and summer, we're hosting four free community events designed to bring people together around the simple idea that what we already have is worth keeping.
Why this. Why now.
01
Repair culture used to be the norm.
For most of human history, people fixed things. They traded skills, shared tools, and kept goods in circulation. Consumer culture told us it was easier to replace — but easier isn't always better, and it's never free.
02
Waste is a design problem.
A significant portion of what ends up in landfill is repairable, reusable, or exchangeable. The Repair Movement is building community infrastructure that makes the sustainable choice the practical one.
03
People are hungry for real connection.
There's something that happens when neighbors gather around a shared purpose — fixing, sharing, learning together. That's not nostalgia. It's a need. And it's exactly what these events are designed to meet.
04
Small and local is where change actually starts.
We're starting in Felton. But the model — community-led, practical, joyful — can scale. Every repair café, every swap meet, every skill share adds to a global shift in how we relate to the things we own.
"Most of it doesn't disappear. It just goes somewhere you can't see."
Stay In
Touch.
We're just getting started. Sign up to hear about event dates, volunteer opportunities, and ways to get involved in Felton this spring and summer.