So many things that we use these days are manufactured in large centralised factories, often thousands of miles away. I was impressed to read about the Tesla Gigafactory, being constructed to manufacture batteries at a cost of $5billion and covering 126 acres – pretty big…
What if we were to look at things slightly differently so that, when appropriate, we designed and made what we need locally, with local staff, skills and resources in human scale workshops? That might force us to question not only our need for certain products but also the materials that we use and the functionality of the products themselves.
Maybe if we took this route we might think of making more use of locally available materials such as timber and also re-using perfectly viable components from products that would otherwise be scrapped.
Think of a washing machine – there’s a lot of hardware going to the dump – the casing, the damping weight, the drum – why not rebuild with the old parts?
Making and re-making locally – something to think about…
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