OUR COMMITMENTS
It’s a family story !
Ever since we were little, we have been into crafts and arts.We love using our hands, repairing, creating and giving our objects a second life. Not because it is topical, but because we have always been raised to reuse products, transform them and extend this second life, see more.
OUR COMMITMENTS
Label Répar’Acteur
We value our know-how by an artisanal Label, since its creation.
We are committed to sustainability and give some of our objects a second life.
We repair, transform, customize and thI fix it and it starts again!us contribute to the circular economy.
I fix it and it starts again!
A bit of history
Initiated in 2012 by the Chamber of Trades and Crafts of Aquitaine with the support of ADEME, the Répar’acteurs label makes it possible to identify craftsmen who, through their skills, their know-how and their commitment, honor repair before any replacement with a new object.
In 2017, the initiative extends to the national scale and seeks to extend the life of everyday consumer goods, by having them repaired by craftsmen and thus avoiding throwing away to buy back.
Répar’acteurs brings together more than 100,000 craft businesses and more than 4,500 certified repair artisans throughout France.
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With its online platform, Répar’acteurs connects consumers and repair professionals, and thus contributes to the local economy by promoting social ties and local jobs. The craftsmen grouped under this label are true ambassadors and actors of the circular economy with their customers and in their territory.
The circular economy proposes that the end of life of a product be included from its design. Its reuse or recycling must be considered when creating it.
It is also to manufacture a product in a logic of sustainable development, using raw materials that respect the environment, by limiting the consumption of resources but also by promoting local and fair trade.
Many addresses of Répar’acteurs on the website of the Chamber of Trades and Crafts.
Did you know?
The history of waste and the beginnings of recycling in France appear in the 16th century, when François 1er, after centuries of urban insalubrity, democratized the use of baskets to recover household waste.
Eugène Poubelle (1831-1907), former Prefect of the Seine, made history with the invention of the trash can.
In 1883, a decree issued by him required Parisian owners to have « a wooden container lined inside with tinplate » and fitted with a lid, intended to receive household waste and allow it to be collected. He had also planned selective sorting but it was not respected.
1973: first recycling plant in Pennsylvania
1976: Jean Tournier la Ravoire, Director of a glass factory in Reims, begins sorting with glass.
More information
« Nothing is lost, everything is transformed » is an apocryphal quote from Antoine Lavoisier. This was reused for recycling. The circular economy consists of producing goods and services in a sustainable way by limiting consumption and waste. It is about moving from a completely disposable society to a more circular economic model and thus thinking about sustainable development today.
In this way, we contribute to the environment, the economy and also to society. To find out more, visit the Répar’acteurs website.
Recycling
We like to make something beautiful, something new with something old.
We like to poke around, rummage around and find the rare pearl in waste disposal centres, resource centres, donations that will give the little something extra to creation.
We reuse the existing in order to manufacture quality creations on the principle of zero waste.
Nothing is lost, everything is transformed !
Homemade
We make and personalize with our little hands the orders of our customers thanks to these old materials or these old recycled trinkets.
The upcycled object becomes original and unique and the customer obtains a personalized personal creation.
Create to exist, create to flourish!
Philosophy
A craftsman is a person carrying out an independent and professional activity of manufacturing, transformation, repair, service provision falling within the crafts sector.
DIY is the English contraction of “Do It Yourself”: Do it yourself or “homemade” in French. The term appeared in 1968 in an American newspaper, and it quickly became a worldwide phenomenon. It’s a way of seeing things differently, of taking time for the design, the realization. And especially to do it yourself. We create, we repair in an artisanal way. It is also a way to exchange, to participate in know-how, techniques and to create. The homemade pushes us to surpass ourselves, to find solutions to achieve a handmade result.
Inspiration
In 1974, Enzo Mari presented his Proposta per autoprogettazione at the Galleria Milano. The designer provides plans allowing the consumer to make furniture from common materials, mainly planks, to be assembled according to a small guide available on request. Behind his project, a committed and generous artistic approach: to propose a new relationship between the creator and the buyer. Enzo Mari thinks about the democratization of creation and says: « I thought that if people were encouraged to build a table with their hands, they were able to understand the thought behind it ».
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