We're here at the Duluth Folk School and Dovetail Cafe doing our first ever Fix-It Clinic.

Fix-It Clinic is an event where repair skilled volunteers up with folks who have something that's broken, whether it's a CD player or a bicycle or a laptop or a Fitbit.

If you can bring it in through the door, we'll have somebody who can help you try to fix it yourself.

The goal is to have our participants try their hand at using some new tools and building a little bit of empowerment.

The part of my role at WLSSD, I do education, communication and outreach on waste reduction and recycling.

Everything came together this year with a partnership with the Duluth Folk School, the Makerspace and Northern Bedrock Preservation Corps.

It turns out there is a whole bunch of people in this community of that same mindset that we should be doing more to repair and encourage our community to repair them.

So much stuff gets thrown away every day.

In fact, our community around the Duluth area sends about 16 trucks full of trash to the landfill every day, six days a week.

If we can just limit the number of things going into the trash by even a drop in the bucket, that's fantastic.

And every time we fix something, that's a new thing that doesn't have to get manufactured.

It's a little bit of capacity building in the community and it's one less thing going into the landfill.

The Slice from PBS North.