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Originally Posted by Junk Box Nick
I found Freecycle less good for substantial stuff. There are obviously a lot of car-booters and traders doing the rounds and they can be picky which can waste a lot of time.
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As Freecycle is specifically free and even asks people who got something on Freecycle to pass it on subsequently in the same way, these chancers do get me aerated. I try to weed them out from their messages!
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Originally Posted by ThePillenwerfer
A minority maybe, Nick, but you're not alone. It seems odd that with all the fuss about Recycling there's so little about Repair, Re-use and Re-purpose to say nothing of Reduce.
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Not many people realise that the famous phrase is in importance order - 'recycling' is behind both reduce and re-use! Some companies proudly mark 'made with recycled plastic' on something unnecessary like a beer can retaining clip, when the object cannot be recycled into anything except a lower quality filler material, and in that specific case can only be burned or landfilled after it's been taken off the cans! Nero springs to mind.