Freecycle

Here’s an example of what the online Freecycle network can do for you.

I had a dilemma: My plan was to start lifting weights at home to save on gym membership fees, but I lacked the equipment. Then I remembered the magic of Freecycle.

I recalled that a financially-strapped friend told me about using Freecycle to acquire a free space heater for his drafty bedroom. Apparently, there were sources other than my mom’s basement for finding free stuff to stock my apartment. My fellow citizens were just waiting to give me their unused bookcases, end tables and office chairs — all I had to do was ask!

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Freecycle Big Island currently has nearly 1700 members. Seven months ago Beal told Sonia Martinez-founder of the 1700-member Freecycle Big Island (and HIJ food writer)-that her group had kept an estimated 300 tons of items out of the local landfills. Worldwide, Freecycle’s over 4,597,000 members give and receive about 300 tons of stuff each day.
Local members have given and received everything from TVs to pets, from egg cartons to dressmakers’ dummies, from boats to baby furniture, from a Jacuzzi to a truckload of dirt. Children’s clothing and books, and tools and building supplies, are popular items. One woman is building a house almost entirely out of recycled materials, many of them from other Freecycle members.

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Charity: Find a new home for unwanted electronics by joining a local Freecycle e-mail group. Submit your free item to the group, and a daily e-mail to thousands of members tells what stuff is up for grabs. Go to www.freecycle.org and type in the name of your hometown and state to get started.

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A book drive held in March and April to benefit Communities Without Borders had a lot of help.

The drive involved Lexington schools Harrington, Hastings, Bridge, Estabrook, Diamond and Fiske. Also contributing were people at Lexington High School, the Central Office, the Parker Street neighborhood, and countless others on Freecycle.

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Charity: Join a local Freecycle e-mail group. Submit your free item to the group, and a daily e-mail to thousands of members tells what stuff is up for grabs. Go to www.freecycle.org.

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By Ashley Brown
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — In this day and age saving money and the environment are important. Now there’s a new trend that lets you do both. It’s called freecycling.

It’s a network of people online who are giving stuff away and looking for new things — all for free.

Here’s how it works: First, you find a network in your community. NBC 4 went online and found a group in Columbus and in several other communities around Central Ohio.

Then, you join the e-mail offerings — everything from furniture to clothes. Be prepared for a deluge of e-mail. You may want to create a special folder where all your freecycle e-mail is directed.

And be a good member, NBC 4 reported. In your first posting, you’ll probably want to offer, not ask, for something.

To find out more about freecycling and a list of groups in the Columbus area, search keyword: FREECYCLING.

Make a trade
Sites like Freecycle and Zwaggle allow you to offer up your old items and get items from other users (with Freecycle, there is only an honor system, Zwaggle uses a points system for the bartering). The nice thing? It’s free.

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Why throw away usable items when you can join nearly 1,300 members of the Grand Junction Freecycle Network who are “changing the world one gift at a time.”

Save landfill space and make someone happy all in one fell swoop.

The Free-cycle Network is an Internet-based group through which members can give away and find items, keeping loads of stuff out of the landfill.

Started five years ago in Tucson, Ariz., the network has spread to more than 75 countries and has more than 4 million members.

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[prMac.com] Seattle, WA - Black Pixel Luminance announces updates and two new plugins for Agent Craig, the internet search agent for OS X Leopard. Agent Craig, which already provides automated background searches of Craig’s List and Ebay, now adds Freecycle groups to the list of sites available to tech savvy bargain hunters. In addition, a new patent search plugin allows for extensive intellectual property research campaigns via the US Patent office website.

The first follows in the “bargain hunters” theme of the core application, and adds background searches targeting the sites in the Freecycle network (hosted by Yahoo! Groups).

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Mr Bloy has on occasion found a home for his old equipment through the Malvern Hills Freecycle website, or through retailers offering a takeback’ service, but believes collection facilities for electrical goods would be widely used.

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