Archives for : May 2013

Tamebay: Vote to give Freecycle a publicity boost

Vote for Freecycle to win Direct Debit Top 100 Good Causes

Vote for FreecycleFreecycle has been selected as one of this month’s Top 100 Good Causes to be in the running for a £2,000 donation from Direct Debit.

If Freecycle win first place, it will mean a £2,000 donation and James Lane, UK Director of The Freecycle Network is going to commit a minimum of 10 x £100 grants from Freecycle UK for use in the promotion and publicity of local groups.

Winning the Direct Debit Top 100 Good Causes would in itself help publicise Freecycle, encouraging more to gift their unwanted possessions. You can vote for Freecycle to win the Direct Debit Top 100 Good Causes online and of course you can join your local Freecycle group at Freecycle.org.

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Fenton Tri County Times:Southern Genesee Freecycle Group

Giving to others has never felt better, thanks to the efforts of the Southern Genesee Freecycle Group, which has recently created a new format and expanded its market.

 This Internet-based group offers free, tangible items from new to gently used, or allows a person to ask the freecycle community for a need or “want” they have for themselves or someone else.

 The group’s market area now includes Fenton, Linden, Holly, Rose Township, Tyrone Township, Argentine, Gaines, Fenton Township, Fenton Township and Swartz Creek.

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Aljazeera.com: Website turns unwanted items into treasure

Freecycle, an online network where people can share and collect unwanted possessions for free, is becoming of the biggest environmental web communities.

Set up 10 years ago by a group of friends, the US-based non-profit organisation has grown to a global network of local groups with nine million members.

The Freecycle concept is being seen as a way to reduce landfill waste while saving money.

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Corvallis Gazette Times: Corvallis Freecycle group is sharing and growing

Freecycle is nearing its third anniversary in Corvallis, but the organization has nothing to do with a bicycle event.

The Corvallis group of the Freecycle Network has nearly 1,000 users who post online when they have an item they want to give away or when they are seeking something they need but cannot afford to buy retail.

Christine Dashiell started the local group, and she is its moderator, meaning that she attempts to ensure that the site is posting legitimate offers. People need to join to participate.

Freecycle’s main aim: “It’s just keeping items out of the landfill — and changing the world through that,” she said.

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The Independent: 10 years of Freecycle: Matchmaking compulsive off-loaders with the vaguely needy

I’ve no idea why it takes many sofa suppliers six weeks to deliver a sofa, but it does and as a result I’ve got nothing to sit on in my new gaff except an expanse of scruffy laminate. The idea of buying a sofa to sit on while I wait for a sofa to arrive seems needlessly extravagant, so I’ve turned to the global network dedicated to giving away stuff and getting stuff for free.

Next week marks Freecycle’s 10th anniversary, a glorious decade of matchmaking compulsive off-loaders with the vaguely needy; it even survived a fractious British schism in 2009, when disaffected Freecyclers broke away to form an almost-identical network, Freegle. Between them, Freegle and Freecycle now boast over 900 local groups in the UK with four million members. That’s a hell of a lot of unwanted stuff that magically transforms into wanted stuff.

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