Looking for an extra couch or table, but don’t have extra money and you want to also help save Earth? Maybe you should check out The Freecycle Network. Freecycle allows you to offer up and/or receive items from people who are done using them. Say you have an extra entertainment center that you plan to throw out, but you figure someone may have a use for it instead of it ending up in a dump somewhere. You list it on your Freecycle group and you will soon receive an offer from someone willing to take it off your hands. From the Freecycle.org:
Welcome! The Freecycle Network™ is made up of 4,609 groups with 5,843,000 members across the globe. It’s a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It’s all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills. Each local group is moderated by a local volunteer (them’s good people). Membership is free.
As stated, Freecycle cost nothing to use and everything listed is free. You are not allowed to charge people for the items you want to give away. Instead of adding to the endless trash we throw away each year, you are helping the environment by extending the life of your items. Here is an example of the listings you will see when you sign up. Note that you will also receive these listings in an email daily (sometimes multiple times per day depending on the number of items listed).
Check out www.freecycle.org today and sign up for a group in your area. Help the World by keeping an item that you or someone else may find of use out of the dump.
