“What goes around comes around” is an American saying, and a Justin Timberlake song. It also describes the workings of Freecycle, an organisation that uses Yahoo Groups to recycle items that would otherwise end up as landfill. It’s not really a charity, though it can work that way. It is, rather, an example of a gift economy. Its tagline is: “Changing the world one gift at a time.”

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