Freecycle way to share and recycle spreading across the world

A new way to share is making its way around the globe. Freecycle.org now boasts almost 4,000 communities with a whopping 3 million members. You go to Freecycle.org and find your country, state and then down to your city or the city listed that is nearest you. The freecycle group for Rockford, Il is a Yahoo group called Rockford_area_freecycle. Hence, all you do to become a member is register with the Yahoo group rockford_area_freecycle. I would recommend having one email address dedicated to solely receiving freecycle emails. I have many gmail invitations I could freely give away upon request to mtnbluet@gmail.com. The basic rules are 3 Topic titles--Offer, Taken, and Wanted . That is all that is needed to give things away and request things within a community. Also if a community is spread out it is helpful to identify the location you are Offering the item from. That depending upon the value to the person that wants your item they can email you that they are interested or they can refrain if it is a ways for them to drive.If you don't find any location close to you, you can request to be the moderator for a new one to be started in your locality. All it entails is manually approving the posts on a daily basis so that spam does not get through and spoil the eperience for everyone.You definitely want to create a new email address for your freecycle community emails as you can easily get 25 posts in one day. I also request people to give me their phone numbers for anything I offer. That cuts way down on no-shows which can be a problem otherwise.I have included a picture of our group image. I have given away old pcs and monitors and computer parts.I have most recently received a manual treadmill and a webcam.I love it!!! It is a truly fun way of doing business!! Again the main thing to stress that everything has to be free or the fun would be lost and of course it is against the rules.And yes "swapping" computer parts is a huge part of this "exhange " I would say at least one third of all offerings and wants are computer related and things really go fast!