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"You are welcome to watch our new coffee machines," said the specialist who was sitting on the workbench to me.He also emphasized that I could give me a discount on a new one if I dalasse the old machine.Then he added: «But the costs are still at least twice the offer that we can make for you here for repair and revision."I was somewhat amazed, but I said:" And you shouldn't always throw everything away right away.“That was already the case, said the engineer.And I decided to repair and revise for the “binding cost” of CHF 320 and 5 centimes.

11,957 cups of coffee in 14 years

That was in mid-November in the “Jura” factory on the A1 motorway in Lower Book Sites (Sun).My Jura Impressa C5, which I used for years in the office of my individual company - and then simply took home five years ago and put it on the kitchen table, had failed three days earlier: she only made lukewarm coffee that was somewhereThe outlet nozzle dripped into the cup.Good: There were two in the top left and right there were two imbus scrubs, where you would be able to open the machine and see where the problem was probably.

But I don't dare - because often further damage can occur easily.I therefore grabbed the device in the trunk of the car and brought it directly to the factory "zu Jura".And because I expected nothing else than that a new machine was due, I had also taken plenty of cash with me.

In a brightly lit entrance hall, I was immediately received and the C5 took off me.And although I had appeared completely unannounced spontaneously, I hadn't even drunk the coffee offered when I was called to one of the several "public" workbenches with a separator (called "diagnostic box"), which are in the spacious hall.

In addition to a lot of tools, my damaged device was already waiting on a practical turntable.The specialist behind the workbench greeted me, the "patient" turned around on the window - and examined her from all sides.Then he connected the machine to his computer via a cable - and my fears concretized: "Born in 2007", said the specialist.And behind him on a screen the number 11 957 immediately appeared.So many cups of coffee had brewed and spent the good C5 in the 14 years of its previous life, I was instructed - and now waited even more for the sentence that is often heard in such situations: "It is no longer worth it!"

Together with the specialist inside the coffee machine

But far from it: "Let's see what it takes," said the technician.With a few skilful simple steps, he exposes my Impressa from her black formwork.Then he explained her intestine from the "brewing unit" to the "spout" - which was just clogged.Jura is convinced (according to her advertising): «This common look in your fully automatic machines is also interesting for you.“That was he.And before I got myself, the technician had already listed, calculated and printed out everything in his computer - for a new life of my old coffee machine.In three days I could pick them up at 3:15 p.m. - with "brewing unit revised", with a new "valve opener set complete" and a new "leakage slide black".

In addition, “12 months guarantee on listed components” again.What is particularly important for the heart of every coffee machine, the "brewing unit".

This was then replaced at no extra charge.Most other parts were still fully useful: well over 90 percent of the old machine are used - instead of "disposed of" and wasted.There are hardly any full-bodied communications on the Jura website.The world-famous coffee specialists from Solothurnic are simply doing this.

Nike destroys brand new sneakers to thousands

The sneaker manufacturer Nike, as the ARD show "Panorama" recently revealed: the global company launched a large-propagated recycling program and even employs a "sustainable head of sustainable" called Noel Kinder.He spoke to smart ARD researchers on the edge of the Glasgow Conference of a program with which Nike still collect good sneakers, clean and resale ».That is just Nike's "Refurbish program".

Very old sneakers would also be shredded and the material for floor coverings reused, the company promises.In Nike stores, large cardboard boxes with the inscription "Recyle your old shoes" are effectively found in which the customers can throw the goods used.The ARD journalists did that too-but with a tied sneaker in which they had installed a GPS tracker.It was followed by its signal up to a Schredder company in Herent skin (Belgium).And then the shock: in the hall with the Schredder machine they saw hardly any old shoes.For this, countless cartons with thousands of couples of new, unused nike «sneakers».A worker on the machine confirmed that nailing shoes in particular would be destroyed here on behalf of Nike.

Online shopping and fashion madness promote new goods destruction

Now the clever research ordered a few new Nike shoes online, she also prepared them with a transmitter and sent them back to Nike.And lo and behold: After a few days, the new sneaker from Germany moved back to the Nike shipping center in Belgium.From there, however, he continued shortly afterwards-into the exact same shoe-Schredder-Hall in the Belgian Herenthaut.There those responsible showed them who let their Schredder run "especially for Nike", then stacked new, unauthorized shoes that destroy them at thousands.

Experts justify this madness in the TV document as follows: to re-register unused "returns" of mail order trading, store and bring them back on sale-that is not the worth.In addition, the whole fashion craze turns so quickly today that less than a year-old shoe models would have to go a “season” later-to make room for new “trendy” collections on the shelf.

The official recycling propaganda of the global corporation Nike thus fulfills exactly the fact of a word that was often heard in Glasgow: "Greenwashing".That means “awaken a beautiful green glow”.So: Decorate the shop window of the company in the “Show Room” at the front-and at the same time in the back of the warehouse, continue to practice the largest environmental in the back of the warehouse.To destroy new goods, is even punishable in Germany.

Jura does it the other way round: there are ancient machines repaired in the shop window-in the "open architecture of the service factory" (Jura via Jura) without much fuss, "refurbished", and thus practiced sustainability.An SMS from Lower Book Sites came a day later: «Estimated customer, the service on your device is executed.It is ready for collection.»

The best environmental protection means: "Repair instead of investing!"

Ready now on the kitchen table for another 10,000 cups of coffee.Fine coffee with a beautiful foam, like 14 years ago - grinded from fresh beans according to “System Federer”.And not "à la Clooney" from a disposable capsule in a cheap disposable device.This is environmental protection.That the solid machines can still be repaired even after well over ten years of use.Sustainability begins with the formula: "Repair instead of investing!"

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