He also suggested that people with trash like that couch list it on a website such as Freecycle.org so that someone who needs such an item might be able to put it to good use.
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Archive for July, 2011
EastBayRI.com: Portsmouth pays for couch/yard waste mixup
Sunday, July 31st, 2011Hollywood Reporter: Felicia Day: How a Girl Geek Made It Big on Her Own
Sunday, July 31st, 2011We shot two episodes on our own dime, borrowing cameras and filming in garages. The budget was a couple hundred dollars; I was essentially getting on Freecycle.org and driving to Irvine to get set dressings off a curb because I thought it would look good in the background. After a couple of episodes, we realized we couldn’t self-fund anymore, and someone suggested adding a PayPal button on the website I created. Within three or four weeks, we had enough money to shoot another episode.
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Huffington Post: Eco Etiquette: Used Mattresses – Icky Or Eco?
Sunday, July 31st, 2011If, on Earth911.com or this list here you can’t find a recycling facility near you, donate the mattress to someone who really needs it, via The Salvation Army or Freecycle. Just make sure your offering is free of bed bugs; no one wants to reuse a batch of those.
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Dunedin Patch: Award Grows Out of Woman’s Organic Garden
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011Mink, also an originating member who helped write the bylaws of the Dunedin Community Garden Association, also moderates two online networks for like-minded people — the Clearwater Freecycle Group, a group that recycles items through free exchange, and Dunedin Transitions, a movement working to move communities away from oil dependency.
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San Francisco Chronicle: The high, hidden costs of “free”
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011Free things cost time. Anyone can trawl the Web for freebies. Anyone can go chasing down free things on Freecycle. But that’s time out of your life where you’re filling out surveys online, or sitting in timeshare presentations, or driving two towns over for moving boxes.
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Forbes Advocate: Trash to treasure
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011If you don’t want to send your pre-used or pre-loved items straight to landfill, why not consider re-using or recycling?
With Forbes Shire Council’s Bulky Waste Clean-up just around the corner, now is the time to sort through unwanted items and determine the most appropriate ‘next step’ in their life.
Local environment enthusiast Nina Crawford suggests everyone should look up the website Free Cycle and see if someone is looking for an item they have.
The site works as a trading system and all items listed on the site are free.
“See if there is someone else that might like it,” Ms Crawford said of unwanted items.
Ms Crawford said items listed on the site do not need to be brand new but emphasised it is important people provide accurate descriptions of the items.
It doesn’t matter if it is a chair with only three legs, just ensure this is the description given, Ms Crawford said.
“Rather than shove it in the tip, it could be sent round again for other people to enjoy.
“Its all part of reduce, reuse, recycle,” she said.
Ms Crawford said people are often surprised what can be traded on the site.
To access Free Cycle visit www.freecycle.org
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China Daily: Giving life a second chance
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011How would you get rid of unwanted things that still have many years of use left in them? A) Give them to a friend; b) Sell them online; or c) Leave them for the garbage collector? Hayley Robinson and her husband, Beijing residents from Britain, who used their clothes washer/dryer to wash their newborn son’s cloth diapers before switching to disposable ones, decided to offer it to strangers on Freecycle Beijing, an online community that advocates giving away things one no longer wants.
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Annapolis Capital: Home of the Week: The O’Dells’ Homewood dell is a delight
Monday, July 25th, 2011Turning to the right, the focal point of the dining room is the antique oak table, dressed with a long runner, several brass candlestick holders and an artistic display of garden flowers. “I got the furniture from Goodwill,” Mari smiled. “Nearly everything in the house is from Goodwill, barter, trade or freecycle.org. A lot of things have been re-purposed. For example, when I took out the brick driveway, we re-purposed and used the bricks throughout the backyard.”
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Walesonline: Recycle your old outgrown school uniforms
Monday, July 25th, 2011“Don’t leave it gathering dust if it’s not used any more – sell it on Ebay or in the classified ads, pass it on to friends or by using Freecycle, or donate it to a charity shop.
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Wirral News: Wirral Arts : ‘Rubbish’ show at Birkenhead Park Visitor’s Centre
Sunday, July 24th, 2011“The work will then be displayed on plinths and walls made from recycled materials collected from Freecycle.”
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