Alastair Tibbitt from STV writes:
The bins are being emptied less often. How can you avoid filling them up?. Vast quantities have food have been consumed.
To read Alastair’s article in full click on the following link
http://local.stv.tv/edinburgh/news/23937-coping-with-christmas-waste/
N21online.com the community portal connecting residents in the Grange Park, Highlands Village and Winchmore Hill areas of Enfield, North London gives an overview of the busy Enfield Freegle group.
To read the article click on the following link.
Blanche House the 12 bedroom iconic boutique hotel in Kemp Town, Brighton had a major refurbishment program prior to reopening in July. When refurbishing the proprietors Jeremy Ornellas and Kerry Turner and local builder Gary Gahan collaborated with local GreenCycle Sussex volunteer Cat Fletcher to minimise waste . They reused everything where practicable. Anything removed from the site found a new home via Freegle. To read the article in full at the online news portal traveldailynews.com click on the following link
Hilary Osborne of guardian.co.uk lists Freegle as one of her first stops when she needs a piece of baby gear.
To read her article in full click on the following link
UKonlinecentres a UK based government-funded organisation which aims to provide millions of people with all the skills and confidence they need to use computers and the internet, hosted the awards in London. Freegle were finalists in the community impact category. To read what UKonlinecentres had to say about Freegle click on the following link
UK electronic music composer and urban explorer Neil Fellowes blogs about an unwanted Pentium 4 PC in working order he got off Freegle. To read his blog click on the following link
James Franklin reporter for Weston, Worle and Somerset Mercury writes of Weston Freegle: “IF YOU’VE got unwanted items lying around the house, there’s a new, environmentally-friendly way to get rid of them, and get something in return as well.”
To read the article dated Tuesday, June 7, 2011 in full click on the following link.
March and April were monumentous for Freegle with the total number of groups increasing to over three hundred and the membership reaching 1.2 million. There are eleven new groups, of these five are transfers from their previous umbrella organisation, five are new groups and there is one specialty canal group to serve the boating community based on Kennet and Avon Canal.
A very warm welcome to all the new groups!. We are delighted to see you here.
The groups are listed below starting with the new groups.
New Groups
Weston
Inverness
Carmarthenshire-East
Chesterfield
Livingston
Transferred Groups
Colchester
Ludlow and Leominster
Truro
Waste Not, Want Not, Weymouth and Dorchester
Bexley
Specialty Group
Kennet and Avon Canal
There are now 306 Freegle groups with 1201309 members.
blogs Kerry Lane on the Norwich Transitioners’ blog. To read his entry Waste Not, Want Not in full click on the following link
Penrith & Eden District Freegle group, which encourages local residents to share unwanted items via the internet rather than throwing them away to landfill held a Give and Take event to promote their local group. The Penrith Freegle group has 2500 members on-line, and with around 600 posts monthly it estimates that 6 tonnes per month are prevented from otherwise going to landfill.
To see the event on YouTube click on the following link.
A \'Give & Take\' day in Penrith (Cumbria) to promote the Penrith & Eden