“Freecycle” Day, Tuesday
Join the Gilroy Freecycle group to list items you’d like to give away or request items you need.
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BuffaloGrove patch: Eighth-Grader Collects 300 Books For Low-Income Children
Buffalo Grove resident Daniel Weiner collected children’s books as part of his bar mitzvah studies this year. His project netted more than 300 books.
Weiner, an eighth-grader at Twin Groves Middle School, organized his project in memory of his grandmother, who was an avid reader. He received the books from friends, relatives and through Freecycle.
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BBC News: Storage mania
Such a mentality explains the success of the website Freecycle, a community of users who give away the objects they no longer need to other people who do need them.
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Enterprise News: Moms shop for back-to-school clothes with a budget of $40
Hall recommended the website www.freecycle.com as a source for free clothes. People post the clothes they need and the ones they want to give away and exchanges are made for free.
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Melbourne Weekly: No Strings Attached
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Or so Melbourne mother of two Michelle Power reasoned a couple of years ago, as her husband dumped unwanted stuff into a skip during their home renovation. “There really needs to be a forum where we can give away these goods, instead of throwing them into landfill or waiting until hard rubbish collection,” she thought. Her subsequent research led to the recent launch of ziilch.com.au, a website dedicated to giving away stuff to be re-used by someone else. More than 300 items were listed on the website during its first four weeks, including an ironing board, a wedding dress, even a car (albeit with a seized engine). Turns out Power wasn’t the only one eager to get rid of superfluous stuff, without binning it forever.
While there’s long been a slew of organisations geared towards swapping, selling and bartering unwanted goods, now the virtual and local communities are embracing a more feel-good, sustainable and no-strings approach to decluttering. It doesn’t involve dumping pre-loved goods on the nature strip or in a charity bin, either.
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USA Today: 12 new rules for back-to-school shopping
11. Consider second-hand.
Besides stops at the thrift store and Craigslist.org, some families with one eye on shaving costs and another on the environment are turning to the Freecycle Network (www.freecycle.org). This grass-roots, non-profit group encourages folks to give away stuff they don’t need and get stuff they do. This, in turn, keeps the stuff out of landfills. “It’s perceived to be as good for your pocketbook as it is for the environment,” Zandl says.
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WBXH: Reusing and recycling 101
Going Above and Beyond
While waste reduction starts at home, communities nationwide are forming around the premise that less is more. Freecycle (Freecycle.org) — started in Tucson, Ariz., before spreading throughout the U.S. — helps people be the best possible reusers. Through the Freecycle network, members are able to donate — or pick up — used products, such as appliances, furniture, toys and bikes.
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The Guardian: Saving money with vouchers, discount codes and freebies
Recycle/giveaway sites
Probably the most famous of the recycling sites, where you can pick up unwanted items for free or give away your own, is the Freecycle Network, which matches people who have things they want to get rid of, with people who can use them.
The laudable goal is to save landfill, and the result for bargain-hunters is a great way to pick up freebies. Run by local volunteer moderators, the first UK Freecycle group was set up in London in 2003, and there are now 540 across the country, with 2,490,981 members. You simply sign up with a group in your local area and then can post free “wanted” and “offer” messages and respond to other members’ postings by email.The person giving away an item decides who gets it from the responses and sets up a collection time, posting a “taken” message on the item once collected.
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Plainfield Patch: Blog: Options Make Reducing, Reusing Easier
Have you noticed the number of resale stores have increased? Habitat For Humanity, Salvation Army, Goodwill and even resale designer clothing stores.
There is a terrific national organization called The Freecycle Network with local affiliates nearby where you can post an item online to be given away — or find something you’re looking for — for free. This is one of the best kept secrets around but maybe not for long. You’ll find it at http://www.freecycle.org.
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Kawartha Media Group: Repair job update
Luckily, my husband had scored a couple of boxes of scraps and nasty fabrics from freecycle.ca in July so I dug into it. Coincidentally, it had pieces of cotton from the same era as the quilt. I was in luck.
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