The nonprofit Freecycle Network, which runs a Craigslist-style website where people can list items they want to give away, pioneered using the Internet to facilitate diverting reusable goods from landfills when it launched back in 2003. To date, more than nine million individuals across 5,000 regions have used the group’s freecycle.org website to find new homes for old items.
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The non-profit Freecycle Network, which runs a Craigslist-style website where people can list items they want to give away, pioneered using the Internet to facilitate diverting reusable goods from landfills when it launched back in 2003. To date, more than nine million individuals across 5,000 different regions have used the group’s freecycle.org website to find new homes for old items.
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(NECN) – You’ve heard the old saying ‘the good stuff doesn’t come cheap,’ but that might not always be true. In fact, sometimes, the good stuff can be free!
Our Leslie Gaydos explains in this week’s Money Saving Monday.
Christina has practically furnished her whole house with free stuff.
From plates to a dining room hutch, she did it through freecycle.org – a network of people who are giving and getting stuff for free in their own towns. You register, pick your state and the towns closest to you and you’ll start getting emails about stuff that’s up for grabs.
Christina admits it can be hit or miss but she says she’s had a lot of good luck.
Some have said signing up for FreeCycle can send a lot of emails your way but there are settings on the site to limit those.
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Giving to others has never felt better, thanks to the efforts of the Southern Genesee Freecycle Group, which has recently created a new format and expanded its market.
This Internet-based group offers free, tangible items from new to gently used, or allows a person to ask the freecycle community for a need or “want” they have for themselves or someone else.
The group’s market area now includes Fenton, Linden, Holly, Rose Township, Tyrone Township, Argentine, Gaines, Fenton Township, Fenton Township and Swartz Creek.
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Johnny Johnson, who runs Freecycle, which collects electronics for recycling in Allentown, said he expects the industry to grow with the new regulation.
He noted that Pennsylvania is the 25th state to add such a ban and several more states are close to enacting similar laws.
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However, there is a movement afoot to be more thrifty and creative by reusing, repairing and buying secondhand items at a much-reduced cost. The technological age in some ways has made people more isolated, but when it comes to sharing or buying items, the world is small and the connections for free items are astonishing. Freecycle (www.freecycle.org) is a site where people post items they are giving away or items they need. Everything is free. There are 5,082 groups, so you can sign up for a local group for easy pick-up of items. Things to donate or take range from furniture to building materials to anything that is legal, not a weapon or pornography, etc. Several years ago, we had a bulky computer, keyboard and tower that neither our friends nor we wanted. We posted it on Freecycle and with in a day we had a mom at our doorstep thrilled to be providing her son with a full computer set-up. Craiglist (www.craigslist.org) also has incredible secondhand items for sale and some items for free.
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Give the gift of reading this holiday season, by donating gently used books to Great Start’s Freecycle Book Bins. The project, which allows families to take home free books from community locations, has been so successful that the need for additional books continues to grow.
Leadership Little Traverse’s class of 2013 took on the Freecycle Book Bins, started by the Great Start Collaborative and Great Start Parent Coalition, as its service learning project. The group is currently seeking used or new books, ranging from infant board books to chapter books. Drop off locations include the Harbor Springs Library, Harbor Springs Area Chamber of Commerce, Big Apple Bagels, Petoskey Library, and Petoskey Area Chamber of Commerce by December 21.
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Hundreds of students, faculty, staff, and other members of the Cambridge community flocked to the Science Center on Friday to drop off their unwanted items in exchange for the latest finds at Harvard’s FreeCycle.
The free give-and-take event, hosted by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Green Program and the Facilities Maintenance Operations Recycling & Solid Waste Removal group, is held every three to four months on campus.
“They’re our way of making sure that good items don’t go to the trash,” said Brandon P. Geller, senior coordinator of the FAS Green Program.
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Last Friday I posted a notice up on Freecycle.com letting people know I had a mountain of firewood (thanks, Hurricane Sandy) to give away. One of the people who showed up was James Peeples. James is the Chairman of Artworks Trenton. Their mission statement says the organization, “Promotes artistic diversity by fostering creativity, learning, and appreciation of the arts. Our classes, exhibitions, and events make art an accessible experience for all.”
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Medfield resident Rose Caira is an avid recycler and … Freecycler.
Freecycle is a Yahoo community group that offers a way for people to give their no-longer-needed items with strangers who might need them. It also offers a forum in which people can request items for which they might be looking.
Caira is a member of the Walpole/Norwood/Foxborough/Sharon group. Medfield does not have its own group.
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