“If it’s your first apartment and you can’t afford to go to Pottery Barn, you can try Freecycle,” said Ashamalla.
Freecycle is a place where people in your community post things they don’t want or need anymore.
An Arlington-based Freecycle community recently offered a computer printer and an espresso machine. The idea is to keep things out of a landfill, and people are encouraged to give and take.
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Worth a look is Freecycle.com, an online community that matches people who have items they want to get rid of to people who can use them. Not only kind on the environment by reducing landfill, but it is great for the pocket, too.
As one of the main rules of Freecycle is a “pick up yourself” policy, your local group is a handy way of getting rid of large items you would normally have to pay to have removed, such as garden furniture and sheds.
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That is, until she found the support she needed. Jen and thousands of others are using different Facebook sites to get much needed emotional support, or just to save some money. “There’s a local free cycle group that if you just want to clean out your garage and give something to somebody who can use it instead of letting it go in the landfill,” says Wolfe.
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Big Stuff and Old Threads
Furniture, appliances and clothing may be broken, dated and outgrown, but still have plenty of use left in them. If the clothing isn’t threadbare, wash and donate it to a resale charity like Goodwill Industries or the Salvation Army. An alternative is to consign clothing through a shop or sell it through a neighborhood coop or online resale site. You can create a swap recycling system for children’s clothes with neighbors, family or school friends. Furniture can go to charity resellers like Housing Works or Salvation Army, church bazaars, online sales or to The Freecycle Network. If the furniture is trashed enough to be trash, break it down and put appropriate materials in various recycling bins for metals and plastics. Untreated wood and some fabrics might go in your compost pile. Household appliances that no longer work go to scrap metal recyclers or municipal dumps that handle those items.
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Freecycle. Freecycle allows you to get items for free that other people no longer want. There are around 5,000 Freecycle groups and over eight million members throughout the world. The price can’t be beat, but the site may not have what you are looking for and popular items are snatched up quickly.
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What do you do when you need to part with the frozen turkey taking up much needed space in your freezer? What about the free infant formula you received in the mail after the birth of your breastfed baby? Have empty moving boxes you can’t justify throwing away? Post them on Freecycle.
The Freecycle Network is a grassroots and nonprofit community gifting movement. Made up of thousands of local groups, Freecycle promotes reuse through local gifting among members. Members have the opportunity to give and get items for free, in an effort to keep unnecessary waste out of landfills.
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I’d stumbled across this sterling fortune by signing up to Freecycle Cape Town, a non-profit, online forum where anyone in the city can post ads to liberate themselves of unwanted possessions, find things they need but can’t afford, and track down hard-to-find whatnots.
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« Don après don, nous changeons le monde ». Derrière ce slogan aux accents utopistes, il s’agit d’une démarche tout ce qu’il y a de plus pragmatique : au lieu de jeter, donnez! C’est le credo des Freecycle (« free » comme gratuit, « cycle » comme recycler), un mouvement né aux Etats-Unis, qui fait une percée en France.
En 2003, lassé du spectacle des décharges encombrées d’objets réutilisables, Deron Beal, un habitant de Tucson, dans l’Arizona, a créé le premier groupe Freecycle avec des amis. Neuf ans plus tard, il compte près de 9 millions d’adeptes dans le monde, — ils sont déjà 45 000 en France, dont plus de 10 000 en région parisienne.
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You can also consider reusing your electronics. The old iPhone may be passe to you, but to someone who doesn’t have one, it’s the best thing. Look for opportunities to give your stuff away, like through Freecycle, or try trading it for cash (flipswap.com, wirefly.org, etc.). When you buy something new, bring it all full circle by purchasing products that are made from recycled materials — if you need a phone for instance — the Samsung Replenish (samsung.com).
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Once you master rowing form at the gym, you could decide to invest in a rowing machine for your home. Some fitness enthusiasts buy new machines; some buy used ones from friends who don’t use the ones in their basements; and some find free rowing machines through sites such as Freecycle.com, where people list items they no longer want and recycle them to those who wish to come get them.
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