There have been some curious packages arriving in Carrie Bolton’s Te Atatu mailbox over the past few months, bulky ones that rattle when shaken. But Bolton is unconcerned. This part-time artist put a call out on the Freecycle website for the coloured plastic tags that seal bread packets. She wanted them to complete a sculpture she’s been working on – and her fellow members responded enthusiastically.
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A local online project is breathing new life into the old adage, “One man’s junk is another man’s treasure.”
Katrina Hernandez, 35, of Calera, has started a Durant/Bryan County branch of the Freecycle Network, an online nonprofit recycling movement to keep “good stuff out of landfills” by allowing members to give and get items for free, according to the website.
“The whole thing is completely free,” Hernandez said. “Free to sign up. Free to join. No strings attached, totally free stuff.”
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El sofá en el que está sentado Deron Beal lo consiguió gratis, después de donar su propia cama de soltero. El intercambio se produjo hace ocho años, cuando 30 amigos de Tucson (Arizona) decidieron crear un grupo de trueque en Yahoo. La voz del “quiero y ofrezco” se ha propagado desde entonces como un generoso virus: los miembros Freecycle superan ya los 9 millones, distribuidos por 5.000 grupos y en 75 países.
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Wild-food foraging: Look for books or websites on wild-food foraging and edible plants. Contact farmers, grocery stores, u-pick farms or your neighbors and ask if you can glean their excess. Fallen fruit and unharvested vegetables rot and can be a chore to clean up, so they might be more than happy to give it away. Offer to volunteer some time if necessary to help them in exchange for food. You can place an ad in your local newspaper or on Craigslist.org or Freecycle.org, too.
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Usable furniture — Set it out at the curb the night before collection. Or go to freecycle.org. Maybe somebody can give that chair a new home.
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9. Recycle the old
Whether it’s appliances, furniture or clothes that you need to ditch, be sure to recycle when possible. Consider joining an online community called Freecycle, which has localized chapters of members who let each other know what stuff they have hanging around that they would like to give away — anything from kitchen appliances to bicycles, furniture to magazines, and clothing to diapers (unused, of course).
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Another Cone for Intuit’s Green Team reported activity. The company has Green Teams at more than 15 locations and describes a enthusiastic activity ranging from engaging 4,000 Intuit employees in Earth Day activities, WasteWatch waste reduction program, Live Green Sweepstakes using the internal social network to make employees aware of a sustainable lifestyle with the chance to win a Vespa, Freecycle@work program to encourage recycling and reuse of “stuff” and a Green Your Business Forum, encouraging small business owners to engage to get Green Tips and advice.
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Welcome to April, Ok, so it’s technically still March but Spring is certainly in the air!! It’s starting to get warmer out, and hopefully we’ll soon all be able to open our windows on a regular basis.
This also means Spring cleaning!
Get out to that garage, up in the attic or down to the basement. Now is the best time to get that extra stuff moved out and into a new home!
FREECYCLE IT!!!!!! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MilwaukeeFreecycle/
You’d be surprised what other people would love to have. Stuff you don’t even realize you still have. How about that thingamajig you have in that dusty box in the back corner of your basement. I know it’s safely guarded by a field of spider webs, but if you arm
yourself with a metal bowl on your head to protect your hair from getting dirty (please wash it before you cook the family dinner, well, if it’s for the in-laws, it’s up to you), goggles to keep your eyes safe, some earmuffs to keep critters out of your ears, gloves to
keep your hands clean, and a bio-hazard suit to protect your clothes, you can make it through the army of webs and get to that box. Then you can FREECYCLE IT!!!!! (and get the webs out of there too) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MilwaukeeFreecycle/
It’ll be fun, go for it. You never know, someone might actually really really really need that thingamajig, and you might be the only one that still has it.
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ENFIELD was going green this week with thousands of canny residents choosing to freeccycle rather than dump unwanted goods in landfill but this was somewhat countered by controversy over the council sell-off of acres of green belt land.
THE council’s decision to sell chunks of the green belt, including the freehold of the West Lodge Park Hotel in Ferny Hill, Enfield, angered Conservative councillor Henry Lamprecht who accused the council of being “short-sighted”.
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Getting all these stakeholders involved has been important for the site’s social sustainability as well as helping its environmental goals. Local school children (there’s two schools very close to the site) have been on site tours and worked on biodiversity projects such as building bird boxes. One further example is the way waste has been dealt with. “We have donated materials to local people using a variety of methods, including advertising surplus materials on Freecycle and Gumtree” says Dixon. He also describes how spare Ultralam timber boarding was given to animal charity Anihab to build stables and spare pipework was donated to a local rabbit sanctuary, giving the residents lots of lovely new tunnels to run through.
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