Freecycle.org, an international nonprofit Yahoo group with a local network, exists to curb the number of items thrown into landfills. Instead, everything from kids’ clothes to kitchen appliances is offered or posted as “wanted” in a daily e-mail sent to all users.

Among forbidden practices on Freecycle are trading, offering or asking for animals, asking for extravagant items such as cars, requesting an item more than once every two weeks, and asking for food or monetary donations.

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