The TRIFAB manifesto
“From the skip to the workbench.” A public document, free to read, adapt and carry to your elected representatives.
The manifesto at a glance
TRIFAB — Déchetterie · Ressourcerie · Fablab: transformer le tri en matière première locale (“turning sorting into a local raw material”) was written by D. Dambreville and published in October 2026 as version 1.0. It is addressed to residents, elected officials and every actor of reuse, training and making. It is organised in four parts:
- The project — the finding, the three links of the chain, safety first, day-to-day operation, what the territory gains.
- The model — a stable economic model on three revenue pillars, a social and solidarity economy approach, governance.
- Implementation — the pilot site, keeping the place alive, measuring results, roadmap and points of vigilance, a reproducible model.
- Taking action — becoming a relay, ready-to-copy templates (letter and council motion), relay contacts, the call to local authorities.
It is not only a question of waste management. It is the capacity of a territory to keep, transform and pass on the value of the materials it already owns.
Download the originals (French)
Short version
The essentials in four pages — to attach to your letters, print and hand out.
PDF · 24 pagesLong version
The full project: economic model, social economy, pilot site, keeping the place alive, templates.
PDF · 5 pagesRelay contacts
National and regional relays in France, and the mayors' association of each département.
The PDF files are hosted on the author's website. The full text is also readable online at didierdambreville.github.io/manifeste/.
Licence and how to cite
The manifesto is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence: you may copy, modify and distribute it, including commercially, provided you credit the author and indicate any changes. Suggested citation:
D. Dambreville, « TRIFAB — Manifeste Déchetterie · Ressourcerie · Fablab », version 1.0, octobre 2026,
https://didierdambreville.github.io/manifeste/ — CC BY 4.0The pages of this site summarise and translate the manifesto into English for an international audience. In case of doubt, the French original prevails.
The first decision it asks for
That every local authority responsible for waste studies, within twelve months, the feasibility of at least one TRIFAB pilot site, then decides on the basis of measured results.
How to carry the manifesto to your elected representatives →
Further reading by the author
- “TRIFAB: 25 projects for a workshop that builds its own machines” (French) — the technical extension of the concept, summarised in our article From waste to micro-factory.
- D. Dambreville's website — articles, methods and publications.