The Freecycle Network TM is a great way to help the community and people
The Freecycle Network TM is a great way to help the community and people
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Posted by goddessgurl Wed Oct 17, 2007 22:35:26 CDT
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The Freecycle Network TM is a great way to help the community and people.
The Freecycle Network™ is made up of 4,142 groups with 3,974,000 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.
A Brief History
On May 1st, 2003, Deron Beal sent out the first e-mail announcing The Freecycle Network™ to about 30 or 40 friends and a handful of nonprofits in Tucson, Arizona. At the time Deron founded The Freecycle Network, he worked with a small nonprofit organization, RISE, which provides recycling services to downtown businesses and transitional employment to Tucsonans in need.
As the team recycled, rather than watching perfectly good items being thrown away, they found themselves calling or driving around to see if various local nonprofits could use them. Thinking there had to be an easier way, Beal set up that first Freecycle e-mail group in a way that permitted everyone in Tucson to give and to get. Freecycle was off and running.
The Freecycle concept has since spread to over 75 countries, where there are thousands of local groups representing millions of of members -- people helping people and "changing the world one gift at a time." As a result, we are currently keeping over 300 tons a day out of landfills!
This amounts to four times the height of Mt. Everest in the past year alone, when stacked in garbage trucks!
By giving freely with no strings attached, members of The Freecycle Network help instill a sense of generosity of spirit as they strengthen local community ties and promote environmental sustainability and reuse. People from all walks of life have joined together to turn trash into treasure.
To join you can go to www.freecycle.org and select your state/town
*text taken from the freecycle site
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