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Capital Times:Reduce, Reuse, Freecycle

Sunday, September 26th, 2010

Fashion magazines, a cast iron bath, recipe books, fish food, an oven and a sofa, what do these things have in common? You can get them all for free on Freecycle.org, right here in Wellington.
The Freecycle Network is a worldwide green initiative with over 7.5 million users – all advertising the things they no longer want, or the things they’re keen to snap up for free.
Catherine Hatfield of Lower Hutt is offering up the fashion magazines, and says the incentive for her to use the service is that she’d “prefer to see things with life left in them used by someone else rather than going to a landfill.”

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GreenBiz: Finding that Freecycle Feeling

Sunday, September 26th, 2010

Freecycle is a “grassroots movement of people” that promotes reuse. Before your eyes get heavy with the smell of patchouli oil, consider this: Freecycle has over 7.5 million users worldwide, runs on a budget of $200,000 a year and reduces waste amounting to half of a landfill every day. (Disclosure: Freecycle and Inuit are partners.)

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Hawke’s Bay today:Don’t throw your trash away, offer it on Freecycle

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

Too much useable waste is ending up in the landfill and one new Bay resident has started a group to get rid of unwanted, but non-recyclable goodies.

Napier resident Dani Bellamy has started a Freecycle group – a non-profit organisation dedicated to reuse of unwanted goods.

Freecycle members go online to post their unwanted items and other members can reply to the post to claim the item.

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Kings County Advertiser: Freecycle Kings: more than something for nothing

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

Kings County Advertiser/Register

Ever dreamed about getting something for nothing? Well, Freecycle Kings makes free things happen.

The Freecycle Network is a grassroots, non-profit community gifting movement that promotes reuse through local gifting among members. Goods exchanged could include computer equipment, electrical appliances, leftover building supplies, furniture and other household goods.

There are already 917 members in Kings County, and they post an average of eight free items every day.

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Window Film magazine: The Good, the Bad, and the Misleading

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

In addition to yard sales our webmaster introduced me to Freecycle, a website where people post furniture, electronics, and other items that they just want to get rid of free of charge. If you find an item in your area that you are interested in you just set up a time and place and make the exchange, no money involved. The trick to yard sales and Freecycle is being able to separate the good from the bad. While some may argue that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, I would argue that some trash is just trash. It really is a talent to be able to determine the difference between treasure and trash. Not everyone possesses that intuition.

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San Jose Mercury News: Henry’s been ‘dog’-gone busy, collecting blankets for animals

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

Henry and his mom used electronic media to solicit donations from family members and friends. “We mostly did everything on e-mail,” Keys said. “We belong to the Los Madres parenting group and Freecycle neighborhood groups in Los Gatos and Campbell. We also contacted Facebook friends.”

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Helium: cheap dorm room furniture

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

Freecycle

http://www.freecycle.org is a web site with local organizations of people who give stuff away rather than have it go to a landfill. You can sign up for their email list in your town, and they will post whatever is available. You have to be quick. Stuff goes out almost as fast as it comes in. This is also a good place to get rid of items you don’t need that are cluttering up your house.

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Lifehacker Australia: Top 10 Ways To Effectively Clear Clutter

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

8. Give away functioning stuff you don’t need

Can’t bear to just throw something out because it’s still working, but don’t want the hassle of selling it via eBay or the like? Sites like OzRecycle and Freecycle make it easy to give stuff away to other people in your area, and you don’t even have the hassle of delivery. Getting rid of that gear also gives you more space for the stuff you do decide is worth keeping.

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HELIUM: Where to find free back to school supplies

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Take your search online. You can search out free school supplies at www.freecycle.org. The Freecycle program is a network of local groups banded together to help recycle unwanted items rather than sending them into their local landfills. Operating out of Yahoo groups the Freecycle program allows people who have things to give away to connect with people who have a need for those items. Putting your need for free school supplies out to your local Freecycle group may net you some good results.

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