San Jose Mercury News: How to recycle electronic gadgets
If your equipment still works, try selling, swapping or donating it. Freecycle helps you swap or give away items.
June 28, 2008
Plenty Magazine: Outfitting apartments with found and repurposed items
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.
Valley News : Let our people Freecycle
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.
Times Online: How to survive for a day without folding
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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June 25, 2008
Alameda Times-Star: Alamedans get back to basics to save environment
Many Alamedans already embrace these new/traditional values. BikeAlameda has been a leader in reminding us that ours is a great town for cycling. Bikes are good for the environment, the pocketbook and the body. And Alameda’s Freecycle an e-mail group — on which members can post things they need (an office chair, size 10 child’s soccer cleats), as well as things they’d like to give away (chicken wire, a pile of bricks) — boasts almost 3,000 members.
"I started it because I had a pile of stuff in my garage that I didn’t want to go to the landfill," says Chantal Currid, who launched Alameda’s Freecycle in 2005.
<a href="http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_9674330">Click here to read the article in full</a>
BatteryBack.org: UK battery recycling scheme
This scheme is set to put BatteryCans in supermarkets, schools and offices around the UK to help recycle batteries.
The batteries placed in these BatteryCans will then be shipped to Belgium where they will be recycled
by a company called Revatech.
Enterprise Record: Sow There: Thanks so mulch, Mom
After the January storms, we asked a tree cutter working in the neighborhood if we could have some of the mulch that was being chipped.
The guy said we had to take a whole truckload. He had to wait until he had a full load that didn’t need to be delivered to someone else, and he would need to be in our neighborhood again.
Somehow, he remembered us, and the pile magically appeared sometime while I was at work.
The pile was enormous — bigger than my little Barbie-type car — and filled up a great portion of the driveway. This was not daunting because I knew that surely some of my friends would want large chunks of the enormous pile.
The friends didn’t come to get the mulch. I even posted it on Chico’s Freecycle, where people list things they are offering for free. One person said she and her husband wanted the mulch, but they never followed through.
And there the mulch sat.
June 20, 2008
Enterprise Record: Sow There: Thanks so mulch, Mom
After the January storms, we asked a tree cutter working in the neighborhood if we could have some of the mulch that was being chipped.
The guy said we had to take a whole truckload. He had to wait until he had a full load that didn’t need to be delivered to someone else, and he would need to be in our neighborhood again.
Somehow, he remembered us, and the pile magically appeared sometime while I was at work.
The pile was enormous — bigger than my little Barbie-type car — and filled up a great portion of the driveway. This was not daunting because I knew that surely some of my friends would want large chunks of the enormous pile.
The friends didn’t come to get the mulch. I even posted it on Chico’s Freecycle, where people list things they are offering for free. One person said she and her husband wanted the mulch, but they never followed through.
And there the mulch sat.