Freecycle keeps stuff out of landfills

FREMONT COUNTY — Fremont County Freecycle invites all residents and second homeowners to work together to help reduce what goes into our county's two landfills.

The Freecycle Network™ is a grassroots, nonprofit movement of people who are giving and getting stuff for free in their own towns and thus keeping good stuff out of landfills.

Founded in May 2003, the Freecycle Network is made up of more than 4,000 groups with a total of more than 5 million members across the globe. Membership is free. You sign up on line and when you have something you no longer need or want, instead of throwing it away, you e-mail the group and offer it to whomever is interested. Or, if there is something you need, you ask the group if anyone has it to give away.

Everything posted must be free, legal, and appropriate for all ages. To learn about items being given away or sought, you must be a member of the group.

Island Park resident Elizabeth Laden founded Fremont County Freecycle in the sumer of 2008, and is ready to add your name to the network.

To date, the Freecycle network has kept more than 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.

Fremont County Freecycle had found new owners for computers, televisions, exercise equipment, appliances, fabric, hot tubs, clothing, snowmobiles, and more.

To join, send an e-mail to FremontCountyFreecycle-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

 

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