Freecycle Turns Trash to Treasure Have you been looking for a new television? Or maybe a new kitchen table? Perhaps you are looking to get rid of that refrigerator in your garage? Before you visit the store or haul the items off to the landfill, check out www.freecycle.org. Freecycle™ is a web-based nonprofit that pairs donors who have something they don't need, with recipients who need something. Faced with the challenge of how best to promote "reuse,” Waste Management recently partnered with Freecycle™ to promote its efforts to turn unwanted trash into treasures. Freecycle members have kept a staggering 50 tons a day of reusable items from ending up in landfills. Freecycle e-mail groups can be found by a quick visit to the freecycle.org Web site. Freecycle has all of the easy to follow instructions online and there is even a frequently asked question area so you can make sure you are doing it right. (Our favorite answer is: "Posting your kids is not on the menu either, no matter how crazy they make you sometimes. Try getting them involved in after-school band practice.") There are three cardinal rules of Freecycle: Everything has to be free, legal, and appropriate for all ages. Over a million members now participate in this giving and getting revolution that’s keeping more than 50 tons a day out of landfills. Whether it’s a chair, fax machine, piano, computer, appliances or an old door, it’s probably being given away on a Freecycle group as you read this newsletter! It’s all-local, it’s all from one person to another, and it all happens one gift at a time. < RETURN TO HOMEPAGE