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How to furnish a flat for free
With mountains of discarded stuff heading for landfill, why add to the waste by buying new gear? Cash-strapped Hugh Reilly set out to furnish his flat - for nothing - with other people’s cast-offs
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Cowichan Valley residents can also use the web to connect themselves through an Internet exchange system that puts donors and receivers together electronically. Operating under the international freecycle movement umbrella at www.freecycle.org, hundreds of Valley residents have found items they need and people have found homes for items no longer required at: www.groups.yahoo.com/group/cowichanvalleyfreecycle/.
Their motto is “Changing the world one gift at a time.'’ That’s not a bad idea!
Letter printed on page 11 of the Jacksonville Journal-Courier on Wednesday May 10, 2006
Freecycle to a Cleaner Tomorrow
To the editor:
I read a comment recently in the Open Line from someone who asked where the
citywide cleanup went. I myself have wondered the same thing. My suspicion
is that money may have something to do with it. (Doesn’t it always come down
to money?)
However, rather than grumble and complain and see nothing happen to change
the fact that people are cluttering up their yards-and our landfills-with
“stuff”, I and others in the Jacksonville community have taken a different
tack.
We have found a way on our own to help decrease the waste in our town while
keeping still-useful items out of Illinois landfills at the same time-in a
manner that costs neither the city nor us any money: We became part of the
Freecycle Network.
The Freecycle Network is a nation-wide, grassroots movement of
environmentally friendly people whose mission is to keep still-useable items
out of their respective community’s over-burdened landfills. The
organization is made up of people who understand that one person’s trash may
well be another’s treasure. They freely offer the things they or someone
they know no longer wants or needs to others in their community, via their
respective local group’s easy-to-use online message forum.
There are more than 3,500 Freecycle groups in existence, with over 2.1 total
registered members-and the Network has only recently celebrated it’s 3rd
birthday!
In Jacksonville alone, hundreds of items, ranging from bikes to beds,
packing peanuts to planters, and clothing to couches have been successfully
exchanged as a result of the Freecycle Network. What’s more, every one of
those items has been totally free, legal, and appropriate for all ages.
If you’d be interested in becoming a part of the Freecycle Network-whether
for yourself or on someone else’s behalf-all you need is internet access and
an email address. Log in to www.freecycle.org to find your nearest group,
and get ready to start cleaning up the town!
Kymberly Deem
Jacksonville
Lowell Sun Online - Old items get new homes at no cost through thriving Billerica Freecycle Web site
Old items get new homes at no cost through thriving Billerica Freecycle Web site
By ANDREW RAVENS, Sun Staff
BILLERICA — The town high school’s dominant color seems increasingly appropriate: green.
That’s because there’s a bunch of busy recyclers in Billerica, […]
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In South Africa, more than 1 000 people recently joined an internet site, www.freecycle.org, through which people from around the world give away unwanted items and can also obtain other items that they find appealing. Around 70 percent of the members came from Cape Town, with KZN and Gauteng making up the balance.
Anderson Independent Mail: Hometowner
Join Hands Day will promote recycling
May 4, 2006
Join Hands Day will be from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 6 at the Anderson County Recycling Education Center, on the hill just across the street from the Civic Center in Anderson. Modern Woodmen of America Youth Service Club, ages 5-15 years, is partnering with Anderson County Environmental Services Division (ESD) — Solid Waste/Recycling, Animal Shelter, Air & Water Quality, Wastewater Management and Anderson Freecycle to promote civic pride and involvement and reducing, reusing and recycling of materials to divert waste from our landfills and to promote services provided for residents of Anderson County.
Join Hands Day is designed to bring youth and adults together to plan and complete volunteer service projects in the community. They also learn about each other and develop understanding and respect.
Following the meeting, the group will have an ice cream social and hot dog cookout.
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During brief interludes when she’s not on the road, Harvey says she’s learning to grow things, experimenting with gardening in “scary-looking mondo pots” she got from Freecycle. “It is wondrous to play in the dirt and wrangle with things like roots and sun and the right amount of water. Little tomatoes, yellow peppers, herbs and amaryllis… I can’t wait to come back from the road and see how tall my bits have grown.”
TownOnline.com - Arts & Lifestyle: Tewksbury Recycling notes
To give and get items for free (”freecycle”), check out http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tewksburyfreecycle/ this is a local group which is part of www.freecycle.org, covering many different locations.
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