"Our mission is to build a worldwide gifting movement that reduces waste, saves precious resources & eases the burden on our landfills while enabling our members to benefit from the strength of a larger community."
The Freecycle Network™ is made up of 4,864 groups with 7,603,875 members around the world. It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (and 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, but you must set up a Yahoo! account to participate.
In just a few short years, Freecycle™ has generated an spectacular worldwide outpouring of generosity, changing the world one gift at a time. Folks with extra happily share; those who need gracefully receive, all without judgement - or any funds - passed. Freecycle™ performs many wonderful functions: building bonds and community, keeping material items from the landfills, and redeeming the clutter than consumes us by moving it forward to a new, productive life.
Due to the incredible efforts of nearly 10,000 local volunteers, The Freecycle Network™ is able to keep its administrative expenses quite low. However, as the largest recycling and reuse website in the world, we have rather substantial server, bandwidth and coding expenses. And, your help to keep this incredible grassroots effort going is deeply appreciated. Freecycle™ welcomes donations to help meet these expenses and to continue to refine and spread the extraordinarily successful Freecycle™ infrastructure. Your generous donations to The Freecycle Network are tax deductible as we are a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.
Get Involved:
Find a Freecycle Group in your area.
Donate to Freecycle.
Find One Way Every Day on Facebook.
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Source: http://www.freecycle.org/
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