WATCH: Westmeath project is RTÉ's latest Climate Hero

A Westmeath based project to encourage people to repair their possessions when they break is the subject of the latest instalment of RTÉ's Climate Heroes series.

Kilbeggan natives Teresa Dillion, Professor of City Futures, School of Art and Design, University of West England, and Dr Alma Clavin from UCD's School of Geography are the people behind Repair Acts Ireland, a project funded by the Creative Climate Action Fund and Westmeath County Council that aims to get people to think more about fixing repairable objects, which in turn will reduce the amount of waste they generate as well as creating a vibrant "repair culture".

See next week's Westmeath Examiner for an in-depth interview with Prof Dillon and Dr Clavin.