Consider Freecycle. In Vancouver, there are well over 7,000 registered users of Freecycle, an online site that connects those who wish to discard used household items with those who want them. No money is exchanged, but friendly conversations are part of the deal. Everyone on Freecycle shares a commitment to keeping city landfills free of their stuff, and when people share a commitment, they like to chat about it.
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What seems like a useful website is mentioned in this blog post – Freecycle.org, where you offer unwanted but useful things around your house to people instead of throwing them out.
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Freecycle.org: Join people around the world getting rid of stuff on this grassroots community page.
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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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Many of us have decided to bring in the New Year with less clutter by cleaning out the closets, the garage and if you’re brave enough, even the attic.
Before you throw anything away, there’s a group that’s making it easy to give and receive items for free.
It’s an international nonprofit organization called The Freecycle Network with nearly nine million members across the globe.
Their mission is to keep as many items as possible, especially electronics, out of landfills.
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Using “freecycle” is an additional option for our garbage issues.
This is a free Internet service provided whereby there is a method of disposing of items people do not need and no longer want to keep that would otherwise end up on the curb waiting for pick up by our garbage workers.
There is a chapter in Hamilton, as well as in Burlington. An unwanted item is entered on the website and interested people reply. Only when arrangements are made for a pickup is an address given. All manner of items are taken such as furniture, building and landscaping material, leftovers from remodelling, plants, toys, books, clothing, etc. If a particular item is desired, that can be posted as well. This service has saved enormous amounts of items being taken to the dump. The other advantage is that one doesn’t have to haul to the curb for pickup or to the local dump which normally charges a fee.
Anyone can Google “freecycle Hamilton” and sign up.
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MIDLAND – Freecycle Midland will once again host an event to get people to utilize the three Rs.
Participants in the second annual Freecycle Trunk Exchange are people who want to recycle items – a chair, a fax machine, a piano, an old door – rather than see them end up in a landfill.
Visitors to the event browse the merchandise and take home whatever they like free of charge.
The event is scheduled for Oct. 22 from 8:30 a.m. to noon in the parking lot at Georgian College’s Robbert Hartog Midland campus.
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WASAGA BEACH – Zero Waste Simcoe is hosting a Too Much Stuff public meeting on Thursday, Sept. 22 when Ronnie Stanley from Freecycle Midland will speak about the international re-use movement.
Inspired by the Story of Stuff, Stanley is an expert on re-use, having recycled houses, cars, clothes, furniture and gifts. Stanley’s presentation will provide background on her group’s philosophy of saving the earth one gift at a time and highlight activities of the International Freecycle organization.
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Luckily, my husband had scored a couple of boxes of scraps and nasty fabrics from freecycle.ca in July so I dug into it. Coincidentally, it had pieces of cotton from the same era as the quilt. I was in luck.
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