100 People & Organizations in Circularity to Follow in 2025: Part 6 of 25

After 10 years of working in #circularity, I have put together a list featuring 100 people and organizations, who I think you should follow. The list is being released across 25 posts until Christmas. I therefore like to think of it as an unconventional #zerowaste alternative to an advent calendar — packed with little stories and wisdoms as we close out this year.

In this sixth post, I am focusing on people and organizations pushing for #repair. Here are four individuals to follow, who are working to advance the right to repair and to make repairs easy and common throughout society. I highly recommend looking into their work and exploring how you can engage in the repair movement yourselves.

21) Janet Gunter and Ugo Vallauri founded The Restart Project to empower people to use their electronics longer and reduce waste. The London-based social enterprise and charity helps people learn to repair their own electronics at community events and at their workplaces. The Restart Project also campaigned for the right to repair in the UK, and it is a founding member of Right to Repair Europe.

22) Martine Postma started Stichting Repair Café International. By setting up free meeting places where people can repair things together, she has been a driving force behind the repair movement. Martine organized the very first repair café in Amsterdam in 2009. Since 2011, Repair Café International has provided professional support to local groups in the Netherlands and dozens of other countries wishing to start their own repair cafés.

23) Paul Kerssens and Thami Schweichler are the co-founders of the United Repair Centre. Their social enterprise develops professional repair programs for large clothing brands and thereby enables fashion brands to extend the lifespan of their products. The enterprise has over 25 brand partners and it has repaired upwards of 75 000 garments. As Paul and Thami believe that circularity and social inclusion go hand in hand, the United Repair Centre creates jobs for refugees and others distant from the labor market in Amsterdam and London.

24) Sabri Cheriha is the founder of WeFix. WeFix offers an “all-in-one service” for refurbished household appliances in Tunisia, where there is no institutional system for proper disposal and where refurbished devices can be up to 60% cheaper than new ones. By providing collection, repair, and recycling services and promoting the purchase of refurbished appliances, WeFix pairs environmental and social impact with an economic gain. Through their online platform, WeFix prevented 20 tonnes of e-waste in 2023, 80 tonnes in 2024, and will likely reach 120 tonnes this year.

🔔 Stay tuned to to see the whole list of 100 people and organizations to follow unfold on LinkedIn, our blog, and our app.