Saskatoon store opens ‘Library of Things’ to encourage sustainable living | 24CA News
A sustainable residing retailer in Saskatoon has created an area for residents to share objects that might not be used often.
At ‘The Better Good’ on Broadway Ave., not solely is there clothes and niknaks however within the decrease stage there’s a ‘Library of Things’.
“It’s a library, but instead of books, it just has stuff,” Meg Dowart, Library of Things coordinator informed Global News.
“Pretty much anything that you might only use a couple of times a year or something that you might want to try before you actually invest and purchase it. Just [the] kind of stuff that sits in your storage room that you don’t actually use that frequently,” she mentioned.
Some of the objects on this library embrace video games, puzzles, kitchen home equipment, instruments, sports activities tools, and tenting gear.
Similar to a library, residents can join an account and discover the merchandise they’d wish to borrow by a listing on-line. Items may also be reserved forward of time and renewed when mandatory.
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The Library of Things is a volunteer-led initiative. Dorwart was recruited by the proprietor of The Better Good. The purpose for the Library of Things is to encourage sustainable residing, by lowering waste and saving some cash in residents’ wallets. It welcome donations.
“If we think of all of the things that we have in our homes that we only use a couple of times a year and multiply that by how many people are in the city, if we can reduce that amount, all of those items will just be fewer things in the landfill at the end of the day,” Dorwart defined.
“But then it also helps with people financially because you can just borrow these things, instead of having to purchase them full price and put them in your home,” she added.
For Alexa Pierce, a member of the library, this initiative has introduced a way of group. A majority of the objects within the library had been donated by Saskatoon residents.
“Everyone doesn’t need the same item that we might only use once or twice,” Pierce defined. “It’s people that are contributing to the community and then allowing other people to access things that they might not be able to access without a resource like this,” she added.
The library runs on Saturdays between 1 p.m to 4 p.m. at The Better Good.
