I was flabbergasted: a company saying “no” to a paid job? They were firm. I needed to post my items on Freecycle first, then I could pay them to collect anything that was still left.
Freecycle is a free, nonprofit network of email lists started in 2003 by Arizona’s Deron Beal. Members of the list can receive offers of donations by email.
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How did we get under the 10,000-ton line? Your weekly, conscientious efforts to recycle as much as possible were a huge factor. Adopting convenient single-stream recycling had a big impact. Residents’ positive responses to the household hazardous product drop-off at the Transfer Station, the textile drop-off in the Walgreens lot, the numerous public space recycling receptacles in the parks and commercial areas, the Catalog Choice online opt out, and online resources such as Freecycle all contributed to our lower trash figures.
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Our home is energy efficient and we make sure that our cars get good gas mileage. We don’t buy new toys for the grandchildren if we can find quality second-hand items at stores or through Freecycle. We bring our own reusable canvas bags to the supermarket so that fewer plastic bags are necessary. We eat lower on the food chain. We take modest, local vacations (and find that there is much to enjoy in the tri-state region).
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“I go on [the website] FreeCycle all the time to get things for shows, and there was a woman going out of business who was giving all of this stuff away. We make due with what we have, so we crafted this great set that cost almost nothing,” the director said.
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FreeCycle.org is a worldwide grassroots and nonprofit movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free by joining local groups in their areas. The goal is to get a cycle going of giving and reusing items in order to keep good things out of landfills.
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They carried in tables and chairs and bags of old clothes. Others maybe lugged in old computers or tools and maybe a bike.
It didn’t matter what people brought, because it was all welcome Sunday during Freecycling, which invited people to bring their old, unwanted items, leave them, and pick and choose from something someone else brought to be discarded
In other words, it was the ultimate recycling day.
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We expect to open during the early part of April. Clothing and book donations will continue to be accepted at the Recycling Center throughout the winter. Anyone who must get rid of other usable items before the spring opening could use the online program Framingham Freecycle, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FraminghamMAfreecycle/, or Craigslist or local charities such as Salvation Army, Goodwill or Savers.
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The children’s toys are mostly second hand, and their clothes are hand-me-downs that John got through Freecycle.org, an international website with local groups that trade items for free. About 300 people in Osceola County and three neighboring counties, undoubtedly struggling like the Nailors, are in their group, exchanging household items, furniture, toys, clothes, and even food like fresh eggs… “Amanda and Emily are young, so they don’t realize how poor we are,” Sarah told Cass. “But when they get older…” She did not finish the sentence.
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“Not sure if you’ve highlighted freecycle.org before, but it’s an international organization with local chapters where folks freely offer and receive all types of goods for free, no strings attached,” Pat said. “I am giving away two huge buckets of black walnuts.”
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For right now, the best bet for the containers is to try to find alternate uses for them. Recently on freecycle.org I saw that someone had available thousands of plastic containers. I thought, there’s no way that these will move. But much to my surprise, someone wanted them and the items were passed along.
Materials exchange websites are a great way to list your unwanted or unneeded items and pass them on to others. The most heavily used sites in R.I. are www.freexchangeri.org, www.freecycle.org, and www.craigslist.com.
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