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When community e-waste initiatives create unequal participation and burnout

Our neighborhood group started an electronics repair café but it's turned into the same four people doing all the work while everyone else just drops off broken devices and half the stuff we fix never gets picked up and we're starting to resent the people who treat us like a free repair service.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Good intentions haven't translated into sustainable shared responsibility, and resentment is undermining the original mission.

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