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FREECYCLE.ORG
Every business produces a certain amount of clean, usable waste. As a responsible, community minded business owner you should be aware of a local conservation effort called Freecycle.
Freecycle focuses on recycling items that would normally end up in landfills, for lack of space, or other reasons having nothing to do with the usefulness of the item. Including the kitchen sink, everything from crayons to clothes, from appliances to automobiles, is exchanged here. Anything, legally speaking of course, is welcome.
The group’s sole way of communication between members is through a series of messages on an Internet bulletin board. All posts look like emails with a subject line and then a body to the message. These messages can be posted directly on the board or sent via email. It’s very easy for you to join and use these groups. It’s free and takes only minutes…really.
Whatever clean waste your particular business creates, someone else could probably use it. The best advantage for you is, as you use the Freecycle Network, you’ll become known to the growing local online community as the company that cares. Another advantage not to be underrated is the increase, however slight, of traffic at your storefront. Even 2 extra cars a week would be to your benefit.
Of course, the biggest advantage is to the community by making less stress on the landfill that’s literally right down the street from us.
Use the following instructions and sign up. Membership is free, and you’ll find lots of your neighbors already ‘freecycling’. The membership totals for groups in Englewood-Rotonda, Venice, North Port and Port Charlotte combined is approx 5000.
Start by going to Yahoo.com. If you don’t already have a free Yahoo ID, get one. Simply click the “Sign Up” Button and follow directions to get your free email address. That address and password will be your ticket to all the free services that Yahoo has to offer, including Freecycle.
If you are a business owner, I suggest creating a Yahoo name from your business name. This way, you’ll get “credit” for giving all those wonderful things as away. If your business name has been taken, it’s easy to stand out by adding your town at the end of your business name. For instance my Yahoo ID is Blindsblindsenglewood. You can use this as the email box for your group messages, or have the messages go to your regular email address. Either way, you’ll only get the amount of email you want, by choosing individual, daily or weekly notices, when you sign up.
Now, go to FREECYCLE.ORG and type in your zip code for a group search. The results will be a list of groups in your area. JOIN THE GROUP CLOSEST TO YOU, and any others that you feel are not too far away to drive to. Keep in mind these are all conservation minded people and they discourage driving too far to pick stuff up. Some groups even make you tell them your zip code before they approve your membership. Ozone layer, and all,……
Once you are in, and your membership approved, look down the list of messages and you will see that each post starts with either OFFER, TAKEN, WANTED, or FOUND.
Here’s brief description of each type of post and what the subject line of that post would look like if I posted that message.
OFFER – Cardboard Boxes – Corner of 776 & Spinnaker
Of course, use this when you have something to give away, these posts are supposed to come with the closest major crossroads, and/or the city you are in. So, if you’ve chosen your business name as your Yahoo ID, EVERY POST you make will have your business name and location in it. The body of the message goes on to explain exactly what you are offering.
TAKEN – Cardboard Boxes
This is used when someone comes and picks up what you had offered. This lets all the other users know that the item is gone.
WANTED – Working Cash Register – Englewood
It might seem like a wish list, people are so generous sometimes, especially here where we live, but people who try to abuse the group are usually collectively, and sometimes not silently shunned. Wanted Posts are useful not only to the people who need and hope to get something, but also to the general reader, who as they peruse through the messages, might be reminded of unused items they have, that someone else could use.
FOUND – Working Cash Register – Thanks so much!
When you get what you need, a nice post is appreciated and encourages all the rest of us to keep giving and using Freecycle.
Try to offer something at least once a week, to keep your posts fresh, and on top of the lists. If you do, between the “Offers” and the “Takens”, your business name will be in front of people AT LEAST 8 times a month.
Go to FREECYCLE.ORG and sign up today!_________________________________________________
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