Michelle Giroux asks us How many alternatives do you know to buying clothes at full price?

There are hundreds of thousands of regional Freecycle groups throughout the country and around the world. The unifying policy for all of these individual groups is that no currency exchanges hands for any listed item on any Freecycle site.

The potential is that thousands of viewers check out Freecycle and other message board requests, making it plausible that someone has
or is able to locate what is being requested. Therefore, it is most effective to be specific when requesting items (clothing
in this case). Clearly state any company required brands, colors and styles.

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Eric Litke reports on Sheboygan’s Freecycle group…

You could call it virtual curb shopping.

Nearly 700 Sheboygan-area residents have joined in a national online movement called Freecycle, giving away unneeded items for free in an effort to limit garbage entering landfills and simply help each other out.

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Aubrey Vaughan writes…

Sometimes all that’s needed to relieve stress and create a fresh start is to clean out clutter and unwanted items.

For usable items…You can also offer your treasures for give-away on Freecycle. It’s a great way to find new homes for items that can’t be recycled or donated, and maybe find items that you do need, like that folding table for your daughter’s dorm room.

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New York, NY, February 22, 2008 –(PR.com)– Freecycle members have given the thumbs up for the virtual dumpster website www.vdumpsters.com.

The site is simplicity itself and you do not need to be a member of any group, complimenting and enhancing the ability to recycle and reuse other people’s unwanted items or goods.

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A CAMPAIGN to eradicate plastic bags in a Worcestershire town is to be officially launched next weekend.

The Evesham Bagbusters (EBB) is hoping to rid the town of single use plastic carrier bags.

The group was started by several environmentally-minded people, who belong to the freecycle websites for Evesham and Pershore - an internet based site which encourages people to recycle unused or unwanted items for free.

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Larger items can also be found cheaply. According to The Ecologist, 2.5 million tons of timber is removed from libraries, churches, hospitals, pubs and homes each year in the UK. Ten per cent of this is tropical hardwood, which comes from old growth forests that cannot be replaced. Save some 200-year-old trees by reusing them in the form of reclaimed wood. Older woods add individuality to a home with colours and textures that cannot be achieved from the newer pale woods. Look at www.salvo.co.uk (020-8400 6222) for wood dealers in your area; or at www.globaltrees.org for a national directory of reclaimed furniture suppliers (search under “furniture”); www.freecycle.org is a network of local online messageboards where people in your area advertise unwanted items that they are giving away.

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Think of it as becoming your own public-relations machine. You can sit down and make a list of all the good things you do for the environment that your friends don’t even know about. You recycled your Christmas tree and got a seedling to plant in return? Donated money to a worthy environmental cause? Use your community’s freecycle-type program? Shop at Goodwill? Feed scraps to the dog rather than throw them in the garbage? Reuse that plastic dish from the fruit salad for this week’s potato salad?

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WEBSTER’S High School is to record a first early next month when it hosts an eco-fair.
This exciting new event is to be staged on Saturday, March 8, mounted by Kirriemuir Cluster Schools and Webster’s High School Eco group.

Webster’s High School will play host to a wide variety of stalls, activities and will provide information for those keen to learn more about becoming more environmentally friendly.

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An online group is giving people the chance to get rid of unwanted items for free and in an eco-friendly way.
Freecycle is open to anyone who wants to recycle and keep unwanted items out of landfill sites.

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IT’S all part of the great re-cycle of life. For one man’s junk can quite literally be another man’s treasure – if the buzz around the free-for-all websites Freecycle and RealCycle Manchester is anything to go by.

A mop and bucket, a flatbed scanner, flagstones, a 1970’s orange tent, three Jiffy bags and a brand new children’s quad bike ‘bought by grandparents as a very over-ambitious first birthday present’ - these probably go some way toward illustrating a mere selection of the weird and wonderful goods people want to give each other for FREE this week.

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