WHEN American man Deron Beal found that local thrift shops would not take his unwanted bed, little did he realise that his efforts to pass it on to someone else would result in a recycling scheme sweeping the world.
In a bid to protect the planet and stop the perfectly usable bed from ending up at a landfill site, Deron started a network of friends online to find a good home for it.
Before long not-for-profit organisation Freecycle was born – an internet network where people advertise and pass on their unwanted items. The one rule you have to obey is that everything must be given and received for free.
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