Archive for April, 2011
Friday, April 29th, 2011
The Green Party also believes councils need to encourage re-use of items. I thoroughly agree. We throw far too much good stuff away. A visit to any council tip will prove this, with apparently perfect chairs, tables, computers and other ephemera discarded with abandon. I would love to see greater use of the online “freecycle” network which offers unwanted furniture or household items to good homes. Or there are charity shops, of course. Many report a great shortage of items to sell since the recession.
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Friday, April 29th, 2011
In an era where virtually everything from house hunting to party planning has gone electronic, it should come as no surprise that efforts driving earth-friendly methods of waste reduction are beginning to follow suit.
The leader among these Web-based recycling movements is a nonprofit network known as Freecycle. Nearly eight years after its inception as a grassroots organization out of Tucson, Ariz., Freecycle boasts a network of 5,000 community groups in more than 70 countries comprised of millions of individual members.
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Thursday, April 28th, 2011
Freecycle – This is a community board where you can post items that you no longer want and hopefully there is someone out there who is looking for what you want to move on to a better home. I found a woman who needed notebooks, I had tons of notebooks…she came by and picked them up one day! Out of my office! Professional organizer favorite.
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Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
SHELBY — Residents have two opportunities to get rid of unwanted items or pick up what they need at Saturday’s Earth Day Celebration downtown.
A freecycle and hand-around will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Blackfork Street. Freecycle items must be clean and in working order. Hand-around clothing may be infant-sized through teen and should be washed.
Both events are free. Freecycle dropoffs should be made before 11 a.m.; hand-around items are welcome anytime during the event. For details, call Harold Shasky at 419-342-5585. Rain date is May 14.
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Tuesday, April 26th, 2011
Join the Bellevue Freecycle group to receive and donate specific items that would otherwise be thrown away.
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Monday, April 25th, 2011
2. Try to make what you have work. In the case of cabinets, for instance, reface, don’t replace. When possible, reuse others’ castoffs. Fritschen has scored free cabinets, windows and light fixtures from freecycle.org, a network of locally organized websites, where people give away building materials.
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Monday, April 25th, 2011
10. Save on DIY
If you’re planning on doing a spot of DIY this bank holiday weekend, there are plenty of ways to keep the costs down. DIY giant B&Q runs a money-saving members club for over-60s which gives a 10% discount on all goods every Wednesday – go to diy.com for more. You can also see if you can track down free gear on freecycle.org before shelling out for expensive equipment. But if you decide against DIY, be sure to visit Which? Local to find tradespeople recommended by fellow Which? members.
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Sunday, April 24th, 2011
Adults can shop the recycled arts and crafts tables, drop off or pick up items from the FreeCycle corral or participate in the children’s clothing hand-around. The Shelby Garden Club will have free houseplants available and an assortment of upscale garden varieties for sale.
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Sunday, April 24th, 2011
Lorena Landry said she feels like she has a new kitchen, but she didn’t spend thousands on appliances.
Instead, Landry scoured the Franklin chapter of the Freecycle Network to get others’ castoffs. Freecycle is a nonprofit organization that runs a worldwide network of online message boards, allowing users to give away items they no longer want and keeping reusable goods out of landfills.
The refrigerator she found could have cost $2,000, but a Mendon resident chose Freecycle to dispose of it, Landry said.
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Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
Ann O’Toole had a microwave mounted under a cabinet.
The Plain Township woman wanted to get rid of the used appliance and give to someone else.
She put the white microwave on Freecycle.org — a nonprofit online network — and it was claimed in no time.
The network allows folks to give and get free stuff from others in their town.
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