"T i m" wrote in message
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On Tue, 16 May 2006 21:39:08 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:


"Bob Eager" wrote in message
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On Tue, 16 May 2006 19:56:27 UTC, "." wrote:

if you haven't heard of freecycle, do a google. in the last few
days I've offloaded a heapload of bricks, blocks, lintols, tiles
slates and slabs which are left over from this job I'm doing.

it's cheaper than a skip, easier than the tip, the stuff literally
gets
carried off your premises to be used by someone else.

yes, you do give it away free, but you can also _get_ stuff for free.
have a google and join your local group, you have nothing to lose
but your old unwanted tat ! LOL

Yes, it works OK. But in my local group (Canterbury) you have to wade
through the ridiculous wants (e.g. "I would like a new model Apple
MAC")...

And if you complain about such abuse you can be banned!

Wouldn't it only be 'abuse' if it went against the guidelines (the FC
groups I frequent all allow them) Mary?

The organiser is God. Or some think they are.

So the community shop benefits.

No matter then .. going to any 'good cause' is better than landfill?

All the best ..

T i m

Not necessarily, I live in affluent Surrey and have worked for a charity
shop and would not now donate to this or a local hospice charity but for
differing reasons.
The charity I worked for was populated by one or two actually charitable
people but the majority were there to grab as many of the donations as
possible for there own use.
I then took items to a local hospice charity - their central warehouse -
only to find a volunteer emptying bags of paperbacks into a huge wheeled bin
but not for recycling but for landfill. When I questioned him about this he
said it was not worth sorting through the hundreds of paperbacks they
received each week! It seems the same fate awaited hundreds of hardback
books also.
If you cannot make use of certain items either refuse them or at least
recycle them

PhilC