The Freecycle Network was started in May 2003 to promote waste reduction in Tucson’s downtown and help save desert landscape from being taken over by landfills. The Network provides individuals and non-profits an electronic forum to “recycle” unwanted items. One person’s trash can truly be another’s treasure!
How does it work?
When you want to find a new home for something — whether it’s a chair, a fax machine, piano, or an old door — you simply send an e-mail offering it to members of the local Freecycle group.
Or, maybe you’re looking to acquire something yourself. Simply respond to a member’s offer, and you just might get it. After that, it’s up to the giver to decide who receives the gift and to set up a pickup time for passing on the treasure.
Our main rule: Everything posted must be free, legal, and appropriate for all ages.
Check out Freecycle here: http://www.freecycle.org/
Or find a group near you and start ‘Freecycling’: http://www.freecycle.org/groups/
It may be widespread, and it might be picky of me but it’s one use of English I abhor: for free. It is correct and much more free, much more free sounding, and much less clunky and dumb to just say: get it free, have it free, it is free etc
you can say get it for nothing. that’s ok by me but take or leave it, this suggestion I am giving free.
Thanks for that, usefull info!