Welcome to The Freecycle Network™! We are a grassroots & 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. Membership is free.
What is freecycling and how does it work?
The organization began as a collection of Yahoo! Groups linked from freecycle.org. It has become a web-community platform on freecycle.org for all groups, which are run by local volunteers. ... As of 2015, all local groups are listed on freecycle.org.
5 Websites to Get Free Stuff
Joining a Freecycle.org(R) Group. Find your local Freecycle.org group. Join the group. Select your local area as this is the one you'll be able to collect from/offer within with ease.
It's all about web communities, and the big names are Freecycle and Freegle. They're free-to-join, volunteer-run local online groups. It's up to you to monitor new freebies on offer. When you want to offer something, you just post an offer message to the group page.
Replies to your posts and replies to messages that you send in response to other peoples posts will show up on the messages page* and they will be emailed to the email account that you signed up with.
Not every wanted message can (or will be) answered right away. Your messages remain on the board for 7 days, which are open to our members to browse at their leisure so they are still out there. Repeated messages will be deleted without notification and your status returned to moderated.
So how is it funded? For most day to day activities, Freecycle doesn't have funding - Yahoo provides their service for free, and the groups are run by volunteers who give their time freely and aren't paid. Yahoo funds their groups by advertising - they make money when you click on their advertisements.
Donate your unwanted items to the community
You can list most items on websites like Streetbank, Freegle and the Newham Freecycle group. You can organise a Give and Take day or Swap Shop - find tips on the East London Waste Website.
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