New York, NY, May 21, 2009 –(PR.com)– The Vyouz Network have now completed their latest upgrade and platform developments which will enhance and accelerate reuse and recycling.

Existing freecyclers and other free use organizations can now use the system to promote and encourage other members of the public to share their unwanted belongings and load them up onto the internet for others to use.

People from many other organizations are joining free to use websites to enhance their ability to reuse as a way of life.

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• Donate used equipment through freecycle.org or a2ecycle.org.

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Free Furniture

Couches and tables are easy to refurbish and restyle to make your own – and it’s easy to find them for free on your local Craigslist site (www.craigslist.com) or Freecycle (www.freecycle.org) sites, which help people give and get free household items.

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Research examining the main components of residual waste - the waste left over after reuse, recycling and composting - has identified the measures needed at local authority, central Government and EU level to increase recycling.

The Friends of the Earth research, published today alongside a briefing for councils, recommends promoting Freecycle and social reuse of furniture, improving facilities for recycling DIY wastes and tightening the law to ensure that more packaging is recycled, amongst other suggestions.

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SR Recycling, the electronic, electrical and metal waste recycling
service that claims to recycle over 99% of all waste it collects
delivered its very first “Green Box” to the UK Steel Enterprise owned
Innovation Centre in Sheffield – collecting half a ton of waste in the
process!

Barnsley based SR Recycling is building strong links with business
centres and managed workspaces. It can then simultaneously assist as
many businesses as possible by removing their waste materials in regular
collections. In most cases this is done absolutely free of charge.

SR Recycling Managing Director, Simon Robinson says their Green Boxes
are the perfect solution where businesses are clustered together.

“Smaller businesses produce smaller amounts of waste on a regular basis,
which makes collecting it uneconomic and environmentally unsound. Our
Green Boxes mean a number of businesses in one place can easily dispose
of their waste; it’s a simple and effective idea that we believe will
work in business centres and managed workspaces,” said Simon Robinson.

It was only when SR Recycling dropped off the Green Box at The
Innovation Centre that UK Steel Enterprise realised that it had over
half a ton of waste material which could be collected immediately. Once
the waste was loaded, the Green Box was put in place, ready to use by
tenants. It will be collected and exchanged on a regular basis each time
it is full.

Innovation Centre Manager Allan Wood is convinced that SR Recycling’s
Green Box will be a big hit with the Centre’s tenants. “We have a strong
recycling ethic at The Innovation Centre, which is a key factor in
attracting businesses. This new facility will be of great benefit to our
tenants, complementing our existing recycling initiatives, helping to
set the benchmark as a forward thinking managed workspace,” said Allan
Wood

The Innovation Centre is home to 28 different companies employing over
140 people in a wide range of business activities and currently has
space for new tenants. It is also the regional base of UK Steel
Enterprise, which supports innovation and growth by providing finance to
businesses in former steel industry areas.

To celebrate companies that are providing consumers with the opportunity to make a difference, greencrier.com will This week’s company is the Arizona-based- www.freecycle.org , a nonprofit gifting movement enabling individuals to gift items in their local communities rather than to throw them away, a movement that is keeping over 400 tons out of landfills daily. This week’s product is Nalgene reusable water bottles which help to combat the statistic that eight out of very 10 water bottles end up in the trash not in the recycling bin.

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* Pick up sewing machines on freecycle.org or eBay, buy thread in charity shops, and try car-boot sales for any other equipment.

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[prMac.com] Seattle, WA - Black Pixel Luminance announces updates and two new plugins for Agent Craig, the internet search agent for OS X Leopard. Agent Craig, which already provides automated background searches of Craig’s List and Ebay, now adds Freecycle groups to the list of sites available to tech savvy bargain hunters. In addition, a new patent search plugin allows for extensive intellectual property research campaigns via the US Patent office website.

The first follows in the “bargain hunters” theme of the core application, and adds background searches targeting the sites in the Freecycle network (hosted by Yahoo! Groups).

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(WIVB) - Who says “nothing’s free in life?” In a time when the cost to eat, drive, and play is going up, there’s a place where your money is not welcome.

At Freecycle dot org, everything is free.

When Emma of Buffalo and her family hit some hard times, they needed things like baby clothes and furniture, but couldn’t afford to buy them.

Yet without exchanging a cent, they got all that and more, for free.

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Free commerce

Before hitting the mall, find out whether someone in your city is getting rid of the thing you want, says Deron Beal, 40, founder of Freecycle.org, a Web site built on the premise that “one person’s trash is another’s treasure.”

Here’s how it works: As in the “free” section of Craigslist.org, users post what they’re giving or seeking, then coordinate the details. On thousands of Freecycle message boards, the dialogue looks like this: OFFERED: Two Pez dispensers. TAKEN: Krups espresso machine. WANTED: Garden hose that works. OFFERED: Adult diapers, size small.

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