17. Join your local Freecycle to pass along items instead of throwing them away
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theLoop (blog): For Earth Day, Dump Your Old Electronics the Green Way
If you want to donate instead, visit Westchester Freecycle.org, Freesharing.org, Goodwill, National Cristina Foundation, Recycling for Charities, Sharing is Giving, or that old standby, The Salvation Army.
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Frugal … for Now
The recession gave rise to a trend of thriftiness and reuse, according to Lauren Weber, author of In Cheap We Trust — but trends do run in cycles.
“Suddenly it was cool to be cheap, to get all your material needs met by Freecycle, to make your own laundry detergent and downsize from two cars to one,” Weber said. “But if history tells us anything, it’s that these frugal interludes tend to be short lived. They’re driven by temporary political or economic conditions and they never seem to last, much to the sorrow of dyed-in-the-wool cheap adherents.”
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Willow says her mom is a big influence on her. What ways are you teaching your kids about money? Do you have regular conversations with them about it?
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I also go to auctions and Goodwill to buy things and resell to people online. The website Freecycle [which allows people to advertise and donate items they no longer need to other people] is also a really good source to get free stuff to resell—there’s just a whole bunch of ways that people can make money.
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WXIA-TV: Save Money Going Green
To go green and get freebies, join Freecycyle.org. You can post items you want to give away in a Yahoo forum and list the items you are searching for. Freecycle has everything from kids items to appliances and household goods.
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G-Online (blog): Moving green
As the coordinator of an office move, I certainly discovered some great ways to lessen our impact on the environment by reusing, freecycling and donating some of the things we could no longer use.
Planet Ark recently consolidated our two offices into one. The city team moved from a small office on Level 2 of our Circular Quay building and created a new home for staff from our Blue Mountains office to join us. It took a bit of planning, but being a green organisation, we wanted to ensure we took the time for the 3Rs… reduce, reuse, and recycle!
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This is Hull and East Riding: Help us in recycling
HULL: An organisation that helps people recycle unwanted items across the city is looking for volunteers.
Hull Freecycle needs group moderators to help with its website.
The Hull branch of Freecycle is a non-profit organisation which reduces waste, saves resources and eases the burden on our landfills.
A spokesman for the organisation said: “Being a moderator doesn’t require a lot of time but does require some dedication.
“There is lots of support available and it’s fun.”
The job would suit a person who is interested in making a contribution to the community and the planet.
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AnnArbor.com: ‘Upcycling’ has its benefits, even when it comes to pet-related goods and tools
Using websites like Freecycle, endless garage sale listings and even swapping stuff with those that we know, it’s easy to recycle usable pet-related items like dog crates, collars and leashes, baby gates, kitty carriers and other useful things.
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NorthJersey.com: Glen Ridge officials: Not enough homes recycling
First came the Eco-Fair. Then came the single-stream recycling and the weekly pickup days. And then the freecycle days, and the public service announcement by a group of local students.
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Yet after all that, the borough claims, about a third of Glen Ridge’s households still do not recycle on a regular basis.
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Memphis Commercial Appeal: More Memphians try bartering, borrowing and passing it along as ways to get things done
For those looking to establish their own tool bank, or just looking for that special something, the online registry freecycle.org is a forum for people to “offer” items or post needed items in an effort to reduce landfill waste.
“If you buy a new fridge and you have an extra one that still works, you can list it, and someone who needs one can see it, and it allows you to e-mail back and forth and coordinate getting it to the right person,” said Bill Dickerson, Freecycle Memphis’ administrator. “The idea is that people are not wasting so many things. We live in such a disposable society. We use little while we throw away so much. If something breaks, we don’t fix it. We just throw it away.”
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