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Williston Daily Herald: Freecycle group looks to keep unwanted items out of landfills

 July 16, 2012  

Williston residents looking to get rid of unwanted items have a new venue to keep those items out of landfills.

Freecycle is “a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It’s all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills,” according to the Freecycle website.

The local group has the same goal.

“Freecycle is a group that was started to promote recycling, only it’s a different kind of recycling,” Freecycle member Serena Woodward said. “Instead of throwing your old stuff in the trash, you give it to someone else. The main premise is that if you take something from Freecycle you’re agreeing not to sell it. If you decide that you didn’t need it or you’re done with it, you give it to someone else. It keeps stuff out of landfills.”

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Green Prophet: Freecycle Cairo: Who Says There’s no Free Lunch?

 July 14, 2012  

Okay, so maybe you won’t get a free lunch, but if you become part of a small but growing number of people who are members of Cairo’s Freecycle Network, you could get a toaster, a couch, cutlery, or even lightly-used clothes – for free. Really, the sky’s the limit, and it doesn’t cost a single piastre to join.

Are you leaving Egypt and looking to give the belongings you’ve accumulated a new home? Post it on the shiny new Freecycle Cairo Facebook page, save a newcomer piles of cash, and spare Egypt’s deeply distressed environment. And if you don’t think this small gesture counts, consider this: the international Freecycle community diverts 500 tons of trash from global landfills every day.

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Yorktown-Somers Patch: ‘Freecycle’ Items You Want to Receive or Get Rid of

 July 11, 2012  

Do you have items you want to get rid of? Like that chair in your living room, a fax machine, or an old door?

Not sure how? Or don’t want to spend money?

If you haven’t heard of Freecycle – it’s a Yahoo group for local residents where they can post items they want to receive, or items they want to get rid of. And everything is free.

“It’s a great way to pass things along to people who can use them,” said Michelle Varela, a Yorktown resident. “For example, I just upgraded my knives at home. I posted on Freecycle that I was offering a set of used knives. Within an hour I had about 10 interested parties.”

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 "about us", News Articles, Recycling Info, US Northeast

Perkiomen Valley Patch: The Hidden Benefits of Freecycling

 June 25, 2012  

Do you “Freecycle?”

The nearly decade-old network of discussion groups where people announce unwanted items they’re willing to give away to anyone who wants them has almost nine million members around the world. It’s become a convenient outlet for people looking to empty a spare room (or just avoid the pricey rent on a self-storage unit) and also for bargain hunters.

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 "about us", Interesting Stuff, News Articles, Recycling Info, US Northeast

The Atlantic Cities: Why You Should Give Away Free Stuff To Your Neighbors

 June 22, 2012  

Freecycle launched in Tucson, Arizona, back in 2003 as a local email list with the simple premise of helping people unload junk they no longer wanted – furniture, clothing, office supplies, you name it – onto nearby people who did. The system came with one rule: Whatever you’re giving up, you can ask for nothing in return. Everything must be free.

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Phys.Org: Freecycling has viral effect on community spirit and generosity

 June 3, 2012  

“We found that being active in online gift-giving communities like Freecycle generates strong feelings of solidarity and identification, which in turn drive people to give more gifts in the system,” said Robb Willer, assistant professor of sociology and psychology at UC Berkeley. “This dynamic may help explain why the membership of sites like Freecycle and Couchsurfing has taken off in recent years.”

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North Reading Patch: North Reading Freecycle Group Keeps Items Out of Landfills

 May 16, 2012  

Two-year North Reading resident Bruce McArdle started a nonprofit Freecycle group to keep useful items out of landfills. The group has about 400 members in North Reading and surrounding towns.

McArdle, formerly an electrical engineer, now stays at home to care for his four-year-old twins, Jake and Jessica. He was previously a member of a freecycle group in Billerica, and once he made the move to North Reading, he decided to start his own group.

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The Barrie Advance: ‘Freecycle’ event will have loads of free stuff

 May 11, 2012  

MIDLAND – Local residents will have a chance to save items from going to the landfill while picking up useful – and free – stuff next weekend.
Georgian College’s Robbert Hartog Midland campus will host the third Freecycle Trunk Exchange on May 12 from 9-11 a.m.
The event is like a giant garage sale, but all items are free. No money, no trades and no bartering.
A similar event in October of last year saw more than 200 people contribute furniture, toys, home décor items and more.
Freecycle is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce waste, save precious resources, and ease the burden on landfills. For more information, visit www.freecycle.org.

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Prague post:The ‘freecycling’ revolution

 May 8, 2012  

Reduce, reuse, recycle. The three-word slogan is omnipresent enough to be a cliché, but a group of expats have reprocessed it into something snappier: ReReRe.

The name applies to a “freecycling” event-planning organization and a website launched in Oct. 2010 by a group of European Union-funded volunteers working for NGOs in Prague: Jane Harding from the United Kingdom, Cigdem Cevrim from Turkey, Daria Samokhvalova from Russia and Csilla Barkász from Romania. After a strong first year, ReReRe is confronted with a dualism many volunteer organizations face.

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Aol Money: Sell for less: the alternatives to eBay

 May 5, 2012  

Freecycle
Freecycle is a worldwide movement made up of individual community groups across the globe where people can come together to give (and get) stuff for free. The idea is to reduce the amount of waste we produce by matching and connecting people who are throwing away goods with others who might have a use for them. The first UK Freecycle group was set up in London in October 2003 and today there are 540 groups spread across the country.

Listing cost: Listings are absolutely free and come through to subscribers on group emails.
What you pay: Nothing at all. If any money is exchanged alarm bells should ring because Freecycle is a not for profit charity.

Postage: No postage is paid as users are required to pick up items they desire in their local area.

Photos: Most listings do not have photos and if they do they certainly aren’t paid for!

Payment system: Absolutely no money is involved just postings of items and responses from people interested in the community.

Verdict: The only downside is that you don’t make any money, but you do get to get rid of unwanted items that may not sell well on an auction site like eBay (old tvs, bedding, top soil) for free rather than shelling out money to dispose of your junk.

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