We are very close to our 1000th item in for repair. So it’s time to look back at stats and take advantage of that event to summarise and promote some of our successes. But to do that we need records. Our group has spreadsheets tracking, what was repaired, when, who, outcome, cost, income, etc. but I wonder what else we should measure.
CO2 potentially avoided from scrap and recycling ?
Cost savings of avoiding folks buying another new item?
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What stats do other groups collect and summarise?
Do you feed data into regional, national or global stats like Restarters.net ?
We weigh each item which was successfully repaired, which supposedly allows the amount of CO₂ that was saved by the item not going into landfill and replaced with a brand new item to be calculated.
I’ve done a lot of CO2 counting. You are measuring the energy and related emissions for the product being recycled. Very few items we process would go to landfill. They are mostly WEEE which is all regulated and don’t go to landfill. I think Circular Communities were working on a carbon calculator for repair and restarters.net has it built in, but we don’t use their system as we don’t run one off events which their system is geared towards for stats.
I know @mcFisher logs our stuff with the Restarters tracker. We’ve got pretty detailed logs because all out items get put in an issue tracker on arrival, but I don’t know what else we might do with it…