eBay alternatives: the freecycle movement.

From: John Allain <allain_at_panix.com>
Date: Wed Mar 17 10:57:54 2004

My favorite newspaper brought to me yesterday news of
a "freecycle" movement, both nationally and locally that
seems to match the goals of many listmembers.

   http://www.freecycle.org **
      National.
      Lists free things that people don't want to see thrown.
      Allows matching by locality, many cities/counties listed.
      At first glance may be too dependant on yahoo groups.

   http://www.wastematch.org
      Local to NY.
      Free, Cheap, Available or Wanted all included.

Looks like a good start, anyway.
Perhaps the free listings on the VCM
   ( http://marketplace.vintage.org )
could be networked in to one or more of the above.
I am in awe of all three websites BTW.

John A.

re: the article
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/16/nyregion/16free.html

** current counters:
"Number of cities freecycling: 279
 Number of people freecycling: 37,128"
Received on Wed Mar 17 2004 - 10:57:54 GMT

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