Don't recycle, freecycle
1:15pm Wednesday 3rd September 2008
Comments (2)TWO Melksham organisations with a common goal of saving the environment unveiled a new banner to help promote their cause on Friday.
Melksham Freecycle and Melksham Climate Friendly unveiled the new Freecycle banner at Hills Household Recycling Centre in Bowerhill, near Melksham.
The aim of the banner is to promote the initiative and make sure people think before they dump usable good on landfill sites.
Kathy Iles, Freecycle moderator and secretary of Melksham Climate Friendly Group, said: "It is just a bit of an advertisement as we are always appalled by the amount of usable things that get dumped in landfill sites.
"The banner is to help bring to people's attention that they do have a choice, it is similar to taking something to a charity shop I suppose.
"Freecycle means people can give someone else a chance to use something they don't want."
Freecycle is a web-based scheme allowing people to get rid of goods to others who want them.
Melksham Climate Friendly group works on improving the environment and the two organisations are linked by Mrs Iles and Jo Stoddart, who is chairman of the climate group and also a Freecycle moderator.
Mrs Iles, 43, said: "I got a greenhouse through Freecycle.
"For someone to get rid of something like that would have cost them a lot of time and energy, but I was able to go round to the owner's house, dismantle it and take it home."
The banner was paid for by people pledging money through website pledgebank.com and cost £47.
She said anyone wanting to join the climate group could come along to their monthly meetings on the first Wednesday of every month at 8pm in Spencer Sports and Social Club, Beanacre Road.
Their next project will be a plastic amnesty day on September 20.
Anyone interested in finding out more about Freecycle can visit www.uk.freecycle.org
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Public Spirit, Wiltshire says...
9:33am Thu 4 Sep 08
Daryl is right in seeking improved ways to dispose of rubbish but that does not detact from the ongoing benefits of freecycle.
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Daryl, melksham says...
5:25pm Wed 3 Sep 08
Their next project SHOULD be ...doing proper research on ways to dispose of our rubbish, lobbying local and national politicians to ban the export of rubbish/carbon 'offsetting' to 3rd world countries, stop listeninng to government propaganda about how wonderful we are putting tins and plastic bottles in different boxes so that HILLS can take them to the other side of the country in a big lorry and send them to India where the problem disappears!! We have the technology in place to solve this rubbish problem, but no-one has the b*lls in government to say 'we got it wrong' and its time to invest in engineering and other technical know how to do it properly.