Question 82 of 110Verbal Abilityreading comprehension

Read the following passage carefully and answer the question that follows.

On one Sunday every month, a school hall in Bengaluru fills with broken things: mixers that will not start, torn school bags, lamps with frayed wiring, headphones that play in one ear. At the repair cafe, visitors do not hand their items over a counter and wait. They sit beside volunteer fixers, engineers, tailors and retired technicians, and repair the items with their own hands, learning to use a multimeter or a sewing awl as they go. Organisers say the point is not free service but a change of habit: most household devices are discarded for faults that cost very little to fix. The obstacles, they add, are not only skills. Many products are built so that repair is difficult, with sealed bodies, glued in batteries and screws that no ordinary screwdriver fits, and for others the quoted price of an authorised repair is so close to the price of a new unit that replacement feels rational. Repair cafes cannot change product design, the organisers admit. What they can change is the reflex that reaches for the dustbin, and attendance suggests the reflex is weakening: the Bengaluru cafe now logs more than two hundred repairs a month, and keeps a growing waitlist of schools asking to host one.

According to the passage, what do visitors do with their broken items at the repair cafe?

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