SW23 Visit Retuna workshop and shopping

Students discover a place of recycling and second-hand shopping center. The Swedish teacher named Begona, showed us a short video about Retuna, the recycling center of the city. After that we discussed about the concept of this great recycling center and answer to Kahoot. We caught a bus to visit it. Next door's to the municipality center you can throw thing that you don't want anymore. Then, some people will fix the things that needed it in order to sell them inside this center. For example, they repairs furniture, electronics, they also upgrades clothes etc … Among this, you can find the first Ikea recycling center of the world in which they sell second hand furniture. We had a nice talk with the responsible that gave us many informations about the history of the place and how they manage everything. Indeed, the municipality wants to develop this kind of shop, The Eskilstuna shop was a test and it has been successful. 

In this center you can also find other shops where thing can be bought such as books, clothes, shoes, decorative objects etc … It is incredible to consider that in some time these objects have been thrown away. Our students had some free time to discover this place and do some shopping, by doing it they supported a sustainable economy after a long visit and heard many details about the management.

Our students were really happy to discover this kind of place, and they had good time in it, some of them have even bought some things. They asked many good questions to the manager to propose to our mayor.