It is not quite a case of ‘out with the old and in with the new’ — more a system of ‘out with the old and in with the used’.

Freecycle is a flourishing scheme which encourages people to offer unwanted possessions for free to anyone who wants to come and pick them up, rather than cast them out as rubbish that will end up in landfill.

Users post their items on the message board of the Barnet Freecycle website in the hope other members will want to snap up their scraps.

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