Evanston Group Educates Community in Lost Art of Repairs

A local group is doing battle against our culture of waste. Spanish immigrant Beatriz Echeverria founded the Evanston Repair Clinic in 2018 to combat what she sees as Americans' tendency to throw away and replace broken items rather than attempting to repair them. The clinic started out as a place where people could go to get their belongings fixed for free, but its mission eventually became to teach them how to do repairs themselves. It's part of a worldwide movement promoting repair as the key to a more sustainable life.