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Spring into Reuse with FREEGLE FREE Giving, Locally, Easily.
www.iLoveFreegle.org
2012 Climate Week Award finalist.
Freegle is a UK network of online reuse groups run by
local volunteers helping to reduce waste. We make it easy
to share resources within a community. Our groups are
free to join and to use. All goods listed on the site are free for the taking. Members who have an item they
no longer want, offer it on the group and someone local who can make use of it will arrange to collect it.
Don't throw it away! Give it away! 330 groups in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
HELP us get the nation to SPRING into REUSE “Current levels of re-use create financial savings to households of around £1 billion and reduce CO2
equivalent emissions by one million tonnes – the same as taking 300,000 cars off the road.”*
Please add a link to Freegle on the Council web site. Freegle groups are often listed under Recycling on
Council websites but it would be great to have a REUSE page and list us there too. We know our community
service is particularly helpful for dealing with bulky items and household furniture. If you have communications
for residents about what to do with a sofa or washing machine, or other resources for Council tenants then it’d
be great to get a link to our Freegle group in those places too.
Recycling points, Bins and the TIP! Could we put up a banner? Give out postcards? Put stickers on bins? Have a
Freegle storage area? Join in a Council community event to promote our free local waste reduction service?
Residents and Local Business Freegle really comes into its own when people are moving house or office.
Freegling makes it easy to clear clutter, get and give away moving boxes and to help get essential goods when
setting up a new home or business.
Could you add us to information you send out when processing student, new and final council tax accounts?
And please do pass on all this Freegle information to your Housing, Planning and Community Officers.
This is a simple way of giving out information to locals that will reduce fly tipping, assist those economically
challenged and help small businesses. Freegle saves the Council money and benefits communities -so please
help spread the word! We hope Council staff know about us and start freegling too.
Schools particularly benefit from belonging to a Freegle group. Freegle can be the source of art & craft
materials, costumes for the latest drama extravaganza or for supplies to make a veggie plot. Please tell local
schools, nurseries and your eco-schools programme about us. Freegle really helps young people understand
the value of things and how to conserve resources – it’s never too soon to start reusing and upcycling!
Need some inspiration?
Spring into Reuse is supported by START UK http://www.startuk.org/ who are making sustainable living
simple. Their website is full of ideas, events and their Start Imagining creative programme. Keep an eye open
for their UK START Sustainable Road Show hitting towns and cities around the UK this summer.
WRAP (Waste & Resource Action Programme)* have tools, case studies and data to help councils embrace and
understand the value of reuse, they’ve even got a report on Freegle! http://www.wrap.org.uk/reuse/
Follow the campaign on Twitter: @ThisIsFreegle #SpringIntoReuse #FreegleIt
Email: [email protected] - more info & updates on our National Spring into REUSE campaign.
Local Freegle group: http://freegle.in/Coventry
Volunteer: Esther Reeves email: [email protected] tel: 024 76441613
As long as it’s legal it can be freegled! 1.27 million members are happily freegling already.
