Elizabeth Schulz of Bridgewater considered forgoing holiday lights this year to further her environmental causes. She already drives a Toyota Prius and heads the Somerset County branch of Freecycle.org, an online community of people exchanging items so they won’t end up in landfills. However, Schulz worried it would be “kind of ‘Grinch-y’ to not have lights up.”
About 25 computers will be given away Saturday at the first Freecycle Swap Day.
Michael Elliott, co-founder of the Fayetteville/Fort Bragg area (Freecycle) group, says he collects computer parts throughout the year. He and his wife, Rene, refurbish and paint them, and ready them in time for parents to have something under the tree for their children at Christmas.
As the importance of recycling becomes more apparent, questions about it linger. Is it worth the effort? How does it work? Is recycling waste just going into a landfill in China? Here are some answers.Click her to read the article in full
I HAVE a few points to make with regards to recycling (yes, again!).
Firstly, I had my shopping delivered the other week and was stunned that the shop in question felt it neccesary to use 23, yes 23, carrier bags!
Some of the bags had only one or two items in them.
I would have needed 10 at most (I reuse mine).
Why is this? Maybe I could be given the answer through this paper.Click here to read the article in full
The article below gave details about the Freecycle website which aims to prevent reusable household goods being needlessly discarded, and reported that some people ‘make a decent living gathering things from Freecycle and selling them at car boot sales’. We should make it clear that Freecycle requires that anyone intending to sell goods must declare so. Our article might have been interpreted as encouraging people to take goods from Freecycle and sell them, but this was not the writer’s intention.Click here to read the article in full
• To get ready for a batch of new things, round up all the toys, clothes, tchatchkes, tools, appliances, and anything else you can think of that you no longer need or use. Fill boxes with them and give to Goodwill, NW Center, Value Village, consignment shops (where you might get a discount on future purchases), local shelters or give them away on Freecycle or Craig’s List.Click here to read the article in full
One of them is Freecycle, a grassroots, nonprofit Web community that originated among friends in Arizona in 2003. It now has more than 4,000 groups and 4 million members worldwide. In our area alone, there are Freecycle groups in Westport, Seekonk, Fall River, Newport and Dartmouth.Click here to read the article in full
A Freecycle group in Hastings is also doing its best to improve the environment. It is a worldwide gifting movement that reduces waste and eases the burden on landfills. So far nearly 300 members have signed up.
Rose Wray-Brown has a beautiful, handmade, wooden rocking chair that sits prettily in the attic bedroom of her 1920s terrace in Ealing, west London. “I’ve always wanted a rocking chair and when I bought my house it was one of the first things I got,” says Rose, who works in marketing…She found it on uk.freecycle.org!
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