It’s good to offer and receive - Wicked Local Plymouth - Life in Plymouth
It’s good to offer and receive - Wicked Local Plymouth - Life in Plymouth
Summer brings out many things: cookouts, outdoor activities and yard sales! I have found it amazing each and every weekend the many signs posted on the telephone poles about various yard sales. While making the extra money from your discarded treasures is worthy of your efforts, I would like to suggest an alternative for Plymouth residents. This alternative is a way for people to get rid of their unwanted treasures and find homes for them with people who are in search of those particular items. The same goes in reverse: requesting of items that you might need, without cost.
How is this done, you might ask? There is a group online called www.freecycle.org. The Freecycle Network™ is made up of many individual groups across the globe. It’s a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. The Freecycle Network was started in May 2003 to promote waste reduction in Tucson’s downtown and help save desert landscape from being taken over by landfills. The network provides individuals and non-profits an electronic forum to “recycle” unwanted items. One person’s trash can truly be another’s treasure!
The newly formed Plymouth Freecycle™ group is open to all who want to “recycle” that special something rather than throw it away. Whether it’s a chair, a fax machine, piano or an old door, feel free to post it. Or maybe you’re looking to acquire something yourself! Nonprofit groups are also welcome to participate too!
To sign up, send an email to: FreecyclePlymouthMA-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
One main rule: everything posted must be free. This group is part of The Freecycle Network, a nonprofit organization and a movement of people interested in keeping good stuff out of landfills.
July 05, 2006 | Citizen Journalist
By Deb Betz
wickedlocal.com