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Hello Everyone,

Not sure if this has been mentioned elsewhere on here, but freegive.co.uk is a good place to go for things you might need. Things are offered free of charge and you can also offer things you no longer need, and request things, all in your local area.  It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills and, at the same time, helping someone in your community by gifting them the item you no longer need. Clear out your cupboards, attics, sheds and garages with minimal effort. Working or easily repairable goods, such as furniture, recycle toys, recycle car parts, recycle beds, recycle sofas anything that is taking up space can be passed on to someone else if you are upgrading your own. Best of all, it's completely free to join. http://www.freegive.co.uk

Freegive group is active in France and other 99 countries across the world, find a group near you . http://www.freegive.co.uk/groups.htm

If you still have stuff you are trying to get rid of, have you tried freegive.  It is very good.

Please can you pass the word around to your friends, family, co-workers, classmates, make an announcement at your professional or social organization, church members, workmates and help freegive.co.uk grow bigger and stronger. Summary: everyone should join!

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Interesting, that site is.

Its "mission statement" is copied from that of www.freecycle.org - word for word. Its logo for some reason contains a bicycle - just like Freecycle's, but with less justification.

Freecycle has been going somewhat longer - since 2003, as opposed to Freegive's 2008 site registration.

There is information on the background and ownership of Freecycle freely available: all we know about Freegive is that its .co.uk domain is owned by a "Kris van Hill". Oh yes, and it has suddenly popped up in quite a few online forums, mentioned by first-time (and one-time-only) posters.

Does the term "passing-off" spring to mind?

And if one asks oneself why would one wish to grab on to Freecycle's coat-tails - well, Freegive seems to be going for the ad revenue.

And no, I have absolutely no connection with Freecycle (or Freegive, for that matter), not even as a user.

Regards

Pickles

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Funny, that last phrase in the original post "Summary: everyone should join" pops up all over the internet, by supposedly unrelated happy site users, endorsing the site and the wonderful stuff they found on it.

If it were that great you'd think there might be a few genuine recommendations too [Www]

 

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The story of the Brighton Freecycle branch setting up their own network because they were fed up with being dictated to from the USA was well covered on our BBC local radio station the other day.

It's particularly ironic that the Guardian piece should have used that particular toaster to illustrate a piece about recycling because a story today on the same radio station told how the manufacturer (Dualit) had been find for not recycling materials at its Crawley factory.

Of course, the Dualit toaster is one of the few household appliances that can be easily repaired at home using the readily-available spare elements, switches, timers etc. They may be expensive (and very efficient) but should last longer than many cheaper toasters; just what recycling is all about.

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I think that's correct. Our local branches at Reading, Woodley and Wokingham all changed to Freegle. Messages were received about the change, but didn't explain why.

I love Freecycle - somebody took our bath, basin, WC last week; not only saved it from the tip, but saved us a trip to the trip! I was telling somebody here in France about it yesterday, and she was amazed that people were so altruistic; I've been encouraging her to use the French one.

Jo
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Hi Everybody,

My name is Stephane, and I am the moderator of the Parisian Freecycle Group :

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freecycleparis/ (it's in English).

We have created a little website at http://paris.0dechet.com (see http://www.0dechet.com for other cities), which explains how the group works. If someone want to help translate some pages... :-)

The website is ad-free.

I've just included a forum "Café" inside the website.

You are all welcome !

Stéphane

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