freecycling

We participate in freecycling, micro gift economies, and curb scavenging. I'm sure there's more we do, but that's all I can think of right now. "Using a family cloth was just the next logical step in our family's efforts to conserve and reduce our carbon footprint. For as long as it was in my sphere of awareness, ...

EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ - “Chasing Coral,” the critically acclaimed Netflix documentary on the world's vanishing coral reefs, will be screened at the East Brunswick Public Library at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 13, followed by a discussion with Rutgers marine scientist Liti Haramaty. The program is free and open to ...

... was set up in the USA. A few years ago, rival UK site Freegle was set up after a transatlantic difference of views. Many local UK Freecycle groups moved to this new site. The two groups work in a very similar way. Happily, nothing stops you doing both. Find your nearest group on the handy Freecycling Group Finder site.

It is an offshoot of sharing sites like the “Freeshare” or “Freecycling” movement. Freecycle.org claims that 5,297 groups exist across the country, with about 9 million members worldwide. Their goals are to reduce waste and keeping “good stuff” out of landfills, the website says. But the “Buy Nothing Project” ...

Other users are notified of the requests near them, and can accept if they feel like sharing – a kind of temporary freecycling. He opens Peerby on his iPhone to show me a map of his neighbourhood in Amsterdam: a sea of Peerby logos, with dozens of users on every street. “I want every city to become a ...

Snaply, which launched nationally last month, is an app that's integrated with the established freecycling website, Freegle. If you have an item you want to give away or sell, you take a picture and upload it with a description. It's automatically added both on the app and on the Freegle website, and your ...

Clearwater 'freecycling' group rescues treasure from trash. Lynda Mink of Dunedin stands with some “freecycled” items — a stool, a shovel, a drill, a bag of corks, a bike and clothing. “I don't do retail anymore,” she said, and she gives away much of her trash on the freecycling website. Photos by DOUGLAS ...

Curbside freecycling (read: the act of placing unwanted furniture and household junk outside of your home on a non-regularly scheduled trash pickup day in hopes that a random passerby will take a liking to and rescue it from landfill-dom) is a time-honored tradition in my adopted home of New York City.