He said he hoped the website would become “the eBay of storage” and encourage communities to exchange services with each other in a similar vein to Freecycle, a website which allows people to acquire or get rid of objects such as furniture for free.
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Freecycle is a UK-based online commuity that lets people give their unwanted stuff away for free to anyone in the local area. Sign up to your town or borough’s Freecycle group and you’ll receive email digests from your neighbours.
Of course, most of the time it’ll be people giving away power cords and leaflets, but every now and then there’ll be a genuine find.
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Home furnishings
“WE had just moved into our new house when I lost my business so we hardly had any furniture,” said Elaine.
She turned to giveaway website freecycle.org, where she was astonished to find quality furniture that cost nothing.
“I got pine furniture and beds for the boys’ rooms, which would have cost around £750 to buy new,” she said.
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For any residents not on a garden waste collection round, trees should be taken to the nearest household waste recycling centre or any local DIY retailer or garden centre that is running a tree recycling scheme. The District Council is also encouraging local people to take any unwanted gifts or old items to a charity shop or make them available online at www.freecycle.org to find them a new home locally.
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Trawling charity shops and tips, and searching on websites Gumtree, Freecycle and eBay, the pair managed to create an incredible home from items no-one wanted.
What would have cost about £35,000 using new materials has been done for under £3,000 – albeit with thousands of man-hours.
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The council is also warning us that any waste left by the side of or on the top of our bin won’t be collected.
And did you receive any unwanted Christmas presents? Then here’s a good tip – why not swap it for something that Santa didn’t bring you – try Freecycle.
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And before you throw anything away, consider if it could be recycled or useful to somebody else.
“You can list unwanted items on the freecycle website, where instead of throwing away goods, people are offered them free.”
Coun. Jonathan Eyre, Pendle Council’s Climate Change Champion, is urging Pendle residents to follow David’s lead.
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Meanwhile, any serious bargain babes are already on Freecycle — which matches people who have things they want to get rid of with people who can use them, with the aim of keeping useable items out of landfills. I owe it for my solid wood dining table; my daughter owes it for her immaculate Hotpoint washer and dryer. And not a penny spent.
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Another popular outlet is through a group called Freecycle. Freecycle is a non-profit organization that promotes the exchange of items with people in your community. Freecycle’s goal is to keep as much stuff from going to landfills as possible. Since it was founded in 2003, more than 500 tons a day has been kept out of the garbage. Freecycle helps people in 70 countries repurpose items that may have been simply thrown away. Not only is the group helping the environment, but it is also promoting involvement and generosity in the community.
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Websites such as the hugely popular Freecycle allow people to give away/collect unwanted goods – anything from a sofa to some unwanted cans of paint – for free and there are a number of skillswap sites, such as Freeconomy, on which people offer to do things for other people in the group, from plumbing to proofreading.
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