Excerpt from G Magazine, March/April 2010
'Cyber-kerbside, cashless eBay or gifting…whatever you call it, the Freecycle movement is a spectacular success, with more than 3.5 million members in over 75 countries, supported by an army of 10,000 volunteers. Each day, The Freecycle Network saves more than 300 tonnes of stuff from landfill...
Whether you are trying to shift your old mattress, a refrigerator, left-over hair dye or bubble wrap, odds are someone in your area will be willing to take it off your hands and put it to good use.
Freecycle matches up giver to receiver via online groups such as Yahoo, transforming someone's trash into someone else's treasure. Best of all, there's no money involved and no strings attached.
Freecycle is used by all manner of people. Non-profit groups use it to collect items for the needy, while empty-nesters and downsizers use it to get rid of extraneous clutter and renovators use it to dispose of or collect building materials...
Freecycle has also spread to some unlikely places, such as the Palestinian Occupied Territories...
While The Freecycle Network currently operates in English only, it's about to enable volunteers in non-English-speaking countries to translate the template into their own language...
So if you're scratching your head trying to work out what do with that mattress/goat/car tyre … don't dump it, Freecycle it!'
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