Businesses can make material sufficiency tangible by offering services that extend product lifetimes, reducing material use and helping customers make more sustainable choices.
- Host a repair and maintenance day
Invite customers to bring in small appliances, electronics, bicycles or other products for repair advice, maintenance checks or demonstrations. Offer a repair clinic, a discount on repairs, or a practical workshop on extending product lifetimes. If your business does not fit with this, make it internal involving your staff and organise a repair session with skilled volunteers or local repair professionals.
- Rethink packaging and refill systems
As a retailer, supermarket, café or producer, you can run a campaign encouraging customers to bring reusable containers, choose refill options or refuse unnecessary packaging. Use the Week to test a new packaging-free offer or explain existing alternatives.
- Give surplus materials a new purpose
Organise a workshop to transform surplus materials or discarded products into useful objects, or collaborate with a community organisation to find them a new use.
Reach even the step further and get inspired by this Hungarian company that recovered fruit pulp to create healthy dog biscuits and treats.
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