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Part of situation: Community repair and reuse initiatives in Austria and DE (2 clusters)

Re-Use Austria launches national repair café platform and expands collection boxes

Repair cafés Re-Use Austria collection boxes waste avoidance circular economy

Re-Use Austria introduced a new website, repaircafes.at, that aggregates the locations, dates and contact details of repair cafés across Austria. The platform, supported by Helvetia, the BMLUK and the waste‑avoidance funding scheme, allows organisers to upload their events themselves. More than 100 repair‑café initiatives are now listed, serving around 1,600 volunteers who conduct roughly 15,000 repair attempts each year, with a 67 % success rate. According to Re‑Use Austria, the activity prevents about 108 tonnes of waste and saves roughly 2 500 tonnes of CO₂ annually.

The municipal association’s Re‑Use‑Box programme, launched in spring 2025, has distributed over 20 000 collection boxes and bags to Austrian municipalities, with about 10 000 handed directly to citizens. The scheme has quadrupled the amount of material collected, reaching 30 000 kg in 2025, and is now available in almost every municipality, helping to raise reuse rates for household items, electronics and toys.

Entities

Austrian municipalities · BMLUK · Helvetia · Lukas Bodner · Re-Use Austria

Claims

What the coverage asserts, and how many sources carry each claim.

  • [○ 1 SOURCE] The Re‑Use‑Box collection volume reached 30,000 kg in 2025, four times the amount collected the previous year. vorarlberg.orf.at
  • [○ 1 SOURCE] Re-Use Austria launched the website repaircafes.at to list repair cafés in Austria. erstaunlich.at
  • [○ 1 SOURCE] The platform was supported by Helvetia, the BMLUK and the waste‑avoidance funding scheme. erstaunlich.at
  • [○ 1 SOURCE] Over 100 repair‑café initiatives are listed on the new platform. erstaunlich.at
  • [○ 1 SOURCE] Around 1,600 volunteers work annually in Austrian repair cafés. erstaunlich.at
  • [○ 1 SOURCE] The municipal association distributed more than 20,000 Re‑Use boxes and bags to Austrian municipalities, with about 10,000 given directly to citizens. vorarlberg.orf.at
  • [○ 1 SOURCE] The boxes have been rolled out to almost all Austrian municipalities, with only a few exceptions. vorarlberg.orf.at
  • [○ 1 SOURCE] There are about 15,000 repair attempts per year with a 67 % success rate, avoiding 108 tonnes of waste and 2,500 tonnes of CO₂. erstaunlich.at

Sources

Kaputt? Neue Website zeigt Repair Cafés in der Nähe [erstaunlich.at]
about 2 months ago
Re-Use-Boxen: Sammelmenge vervierfacht [vorarlberg.orf.at]
about 2 months ago