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Freecyle, a Site for Trash to Treasure

June 4, 2007 By: Anna13 Comments

Freecycle is a website where people give away their used possessions for free instead of putting them out at the curb.  This site is truly about someone’s trash, is someone else’s treasure. Freecycle was started in 2003 in Tucson, Arizona  to help reduce the waste in Tucson’s downtown as well as to help save the desert landscape from becoming mountains of landfills.

Watch their video at http://www.freecycle.org/video.html.  It pretty much sums up what Freecycle is about.  According to their website as of today, they have 4041 community groups including an international presence in many countries including UK, Australia, Germany, and Canada.  I joined my local county group last year, which consists of over 5500 members.  The listings were voluminous.  

Freecycle helps you start your own community group if there is not one already started. Sign up and take a look at what is being offered.

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Comments

  1. 1

    jennifer brooks says

    August 2, 2008 at 1:10 pm

    what a great way to spend the day!

    Reply
  2. 2

    donee says

    October 27, 2009 at 7:40 pm

    Hey,

    Why call it a fancy name and require that posters have membership to post what they got? We have been doing Freecycling since before the dawn of mankind, and now we need membership to do it? Which of course was denied to me, or I would not be writing this (probably). This makes no sense!

    But being denied got me thinking. What is Freecycling but Garbage picking by computer? Have we not all be free to garbage pick ? So, by requiring a membership in an organized Freecycling organization to get our reusable stuff reused, we are trading away what we have had all along.

    Please DO NOT JOIN a FREECYCLE GROUP. Just put it on CRAIG’s List !!! Organized Freecycling is a bad idea.

    Reply
  3. 3

    Jim says

    January 25, 2010 at 1:42 am

    This is such a fantastic idea and will surely be a huge success. I have always been a huge fan of car boot sales and second hand stalls and this idea just takes it to another level.

    There are so many times that I have emptied the garage or redecorated a bedroom only to end up with a huge pile of what I would call rubbish and no real idea of what to do with it.

    Thanks to Freecycle (also great name btw) I can now organize the stuff I don’t want and offer it to someone else. The website is very easy to use and has groups in most areas of the world,

    Reply
  4. 4

    Security Guard Tour Systems says

    January 21, 2011 at 8:19 am

    I agree, it does have a crazy name. why not just keep it simple for the elves to understand.

    Reply

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