A few years back, Deron Beal worked for a recycling organization in Tucson, Ariz. He’d drive an old pickup truck around to other nonprofit groups, and say, “I found this old desk or this computer. Can you guys use it? I spent [most of my] time calling or driving around,” he says.

That changed on May 1, 2003, when he sent off an e-mail to about 30 friends and a handful of nonprofit groups. Those who needed something should just e-mail everyone else. Those who had something to give away could tell the others about it, too. Freecycle.org was born.

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An internet environmental group which encourages recycling by getting people to swap unwanted goods has attracted more than 3,000 members in the Kettering area.
They belong to the town branch of the international Freecycle Network which matches people with items they want to get rid of to people who can use them.

People can also request things they may be struggling to buy or find in the shops.

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On Saturday, July 5, visit the Maynard Community Farmers’ Market to learn how you can save money and reduce your impact on the environment.

To save money on trash stickers, reduce the quantity of your weekly trash. Composting and freecycling are two ways to achieve this.

Maynard Community Gardeners’ members will be at their tent with advice on how you can turn your food scrapes and yard waste into ‘black gold’ for your garden.

At the Community tent, members of the local Freecycle group will let you know how you can join freecycling to keep things out of the waste stream and share their experience both of obtaining items they wanted from others and disposing of things they no longer needed.

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Even your most worn-out household items can find new homes. Sell used items on eBay or Craigslist, or give them away through your local freecycle.

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Todo mundo tem, pelo menos, um objeto que não utiliza mais, mas ainda está em condições de uso. Isso quando não se trata de um monte de coisa que ocupa um cômodo inteiro, o famoso “quartinho de bagunça”. Ele acaba resistindo a toda iniciativa de arrumação, você não consegue encontrar alguém que se interesse por aquela “tranqueira”, tem pena de jogar fora, e o objeto continua lá, parado e ocupando espaço. Para resolver essa situação tão comum, surgiu o Freecycle Network (www.freecycle.org).

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The Kettering Freecycle Group is part of the international Freecycle Network which matches people who have things they need to get rid of with people who can use them. All items posted are free with the sole aim of the group being to reduce the amount of items discarded by finding new homes for them.

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If your equipment still works, try selling, swapping or donating it. Freecycle helps you swap or give away items.

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So where to scavenge for materials? Stop at construction sites to ask for whatever scraps and leftover materials they won’t be using. Near the ends of terms, ask at schools whether they’ll be discarding any furniture, fixtures, appliances, or anything else. Join your local Freecycle.com group—or start your own free/trade/barter circle. And without plundering protected wildernesses, consider nature: use a particularly gorgeous stone as a doorstop, or make a lustrous coat rack by sanding down a sturdy branch and nailing a few (scavenged/found) hooks into it. Go wild and use your imagination.

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There may not be such a thing as a free lunch but there are free things in life. To find some of them locally, become a member of Freecycle.org and find places to give away your stuff or to get some stuff.

Items recently listed on the site included a baby changing table, cat food and a small washing machine. Items people were looking for were a stroller, a microwave and a bag of infant girl’s clothing.

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10am: I trawl the internet for free things. On gumtree.com and craigslist.org, I find advertisements for free haircuts from trainee stylists. I sign up for freecycle.org, where people offer stuff to exchange free, thus keeping it out of landfill. Bigwardrobe.com, meanwhile, allows you to perform free clothes swaps.

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