Freecycle(gain and declutter for free!)worldwide

Tightwadways · 1 March 2005 at 8:39PM

I didn't know which forum to put this on, so here goes!

Freecycle is a worldwide online community of members who recycle and reuse their unwanted goods. In a nutshell it's the equivalent of eBay without the monetary transactions!

Members offer their unwanted goods up for collection to other members, everything offered *must* be free, appropriate for all ages, and legal. This IMO is a great way to prevent reusable stuff going to the landfill, whilst benefiting the community at large, and it doesn't cost a penny to join, recycle or take part in!

To see if there's a group near you visit https://www.freecycle.org

There is a group for Norfolk (I'm one of the moderators) -you can join us if you're in our area or close to our boundaries by signing up here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/norfolkukfreecycle/

Best wishes and hope I've enticed you all to have a go!

Allexie · 3 March 2005 at 12:37PM

Just to say...Freecycle is great!

Really taking off here in West Yorkshire....yesterday someone was offering a load of home-made wine, (he needed the space apparently!)

Savvy_Sue · 4 March 2005 at 12:39AM

and you can find it here

I can't vouch for how good it is because I haven't used it but if you're in Bristol and green-minded they have some useful links.

I'm also going to point the people who want help with their clutter and hoarding in this direction. Some of us think it might help us part with our treasures if we knew they were going to a good home ...

EDIT! Bristol's 'Swap it' scheme may not be the same thing as freecycle, especially in that you can say you want to swap your item for something completely different, or for a donation to charity, but when I last looked there were quite a few 'free to good home' items there as well. But I think it's similar enough to count!

itgirlinuk · 14 March 2005 at 12:41PM

Is there one for London?

savvy · 14 March 2005 at 1:36PM

Check via the link in freecycles post above, it tells you for the UK.

solon · 17 March 2005 at 10:38AM

There's also a corporate equivalent called Global Hand. https://www.globalhand.org. Yet this deals with bulk donations and matches surplus with those addressing need. What a great scheme a sort of humanitarian Ebay.

So why not get all the corporates to do this too?

tiff · 17 March 2005 at 1:34PM

Savvy_Sue wrote:

and you can find it here

I can't vouch for how good it is because I haven't used it but if you're in Bristol and green-minded they have some useful links.

I'm also going to point the people who want help with their clutter and hoarding in this direction. Some of us think it might help us part with our treasures if we knew they were going to a good home ...

EDIT! Bristol's 'Swap it' scheme may not be the same thing as freecycle, especially in that you can say you want to swap your item for something completely different, or for a donation to charity, but when I last looked there were quite a few 'free to good home' items there as well. But I think it's similar enough to count!

Sue, not seen Swap it before, so thanks. The Bristol freecycle group is here http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreecycleBristol/

I posted my first offer and first wanted on there today, so here's hoping someone can help me out

Rave · 17 March 2005 at 8:47PM

itgirlinuk wrote:

Is there one for London?

Yeah, it's huge, 2000-odd members. In fact it's so successful that it's going to be split up into subsections sometime soon!

Follow the link from Freecycle.org, sorry I'm in a hurry otherwise would look it up for you!

tiff · 17 March 2005 at 9:11PM

The Bristol one seems pretty busy too. I've already had someone take up my offer so now I just need someone to help me with my wanted. Here's hoping

Savvy_Sue · 18 March 2005 at 1:15AM

tiff wrote:

Sue, not seen Swap it before, so thanks. The Bristol freecycle group is here http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreecycleBristol/

I posted my first offer and first wanted on there today, so here's hoping someone can help me out

I'm being an IT wimp, can't cope with signing up for anything Yahoo.

Swapit's easier you can just see what's there and there's also a 'wanted' section IIRC.

tiff · 18 March 2005 at 8:42AM

Ah but Sue, if you get to grips with it you get an email every time someone posts an offer on the Bristol group. What I like is that you dont have to go to the Yahoo group to find out whats on offer, it just drops in your inbox. I must admit usually I dont like yahoo groups and refuse to join them!

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