By Nyree Ambarchian of Peterborough Environment City Trust
Have you heard of Freecycle? In a nutshell it’ s an online network that links people who have stuff to get rid of with other people who want stuff.
It’ s like a car -boot sale where everything is free and you don’t have to leave the comfort of your home to browse!
You could use your blog to help spread the word about:
Freecycle.org — a grassroots nonprofit movement, Freecycle connects local givers and getters of free stuff. Instead of throwing something into a landfill, Freecycle can help you find out if someone else might make good reuse of your stuff.
Plants for free, and you can get some too! Sounds a bit too easy doesn’t it? Let me introduce you to a secret world where plants and many other garden related items are given away for free every day. I am of course talking about the fantastic website called Freecycle.
The other day I was given around 20 free saplings (ash, oak and birch) and in the past I have also received garden books, magazines, and tools. We all know the old adage that one man’s rubbish is another man’s treasure and with the current recession what could be better than something for nothing?
Then, out of the blue, a friend emailed me with news of one being given away on the Freecycle website. Result. Not only was it free, it was also local. What luck.
Or so I thought.
It never occurred to me what an impossible task it would actually be to get it from its present location to my house.
Sign up for Freecycle - Freecycle is such a great way to get things you need; people are recycling their unwanted items and the receivers are saving money because everything is free. Hawai’i state has options for the different islands. Also, look into the toy/book swaps, many moms get together and exchange toys or books on the weekends and make an event out of it.
95. Sign up to freecycle.org. Not only will you be able to find good homes for all the stuff you don’t need anymore, but you can ’shop’ for nothing by putting out a call to other freecyclers for what you need.
7. Find free stuff
Why buy new what you can get used—especially when you can get it for free? The Freecycle Network keeps track of local free-exchange groups whose goal is to keep used stuff out of landfills and put it into the hands of people who want it. You’ll find just about anything on Freecycle, from printers to Mac SEs to random mice and cables. People post what they have to offer; you respond if you want it. Most offers receive more than one response; it’s up to the giver to decide who gets the item.
WENDLAND
Published: August 14, 2009
The Freecycle website needs to be at the top of your favorites list.
It’s a way to help others by sharing and to help yourself by “freecycling”, if you will, perfectly good stuff that other people no longer need.
It’s a huge online community made up of nearly 5,000 local groups and 7 million members.
Joining is free.
Just pick your local area and sign up.
A VOLUNTEER has appealed to ‘Freecyclers’ to help feed rescued donkeys at St Boswells.
Kelso helper Arwen Lewis decided she would ask kind-hearted Borderers to donate carrots, apples and hay to the 57 rescued donkeys at the Scottish Borders Donkey Sanctuary.
MICHIGAN CITY - Got too many tomatoes? Are unwanted items taking up too much space?
Jo Ann Moss has a solution: list them with Michigan City Indiana Freecycle.
It’s an online network of local people banding together to keep usable items out of landfills by giving and getting things for free.
Anything posted on Freecycle must be free, legal and appropriate for all ages. To view the items being given away or being sought in La Porte, you must be a member of the local group. But membership is also free.
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