[sclug] Trying to avoid landfill

[Leon Ward]

Take a look at http://uk.freecycle.org/

I used it to get rid of some bits that I didn't need and didn't want to go
to landfill.

-Leon

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Neil Haughton <haughtonomous at googlemail.com
> wrote:

> Sorry if this is way off topic, but it's worth a shot.
>
> Having been bludgeoned by 'her indoors'  into doing my bit to defeat the
> credit crunch by relieving John Lewis of the world's largest HD television
> (or so it seems), I now have a perfectly good, e.w.o., black Panasonic 26"
> CRT TV with stand and remote, going begging. I hate to use it to fill a
> hole
> in the ground, and I doubt if it is even worth trying to sell on ebay or
> whatever.
>
>
> It's been absolutely reliable over its lifetime, so my ideal would be to
> see
> some worthy or charitable cause make use of it, a care home or something
> similar. Does any one know how I might go about that? I mean short of
> working through the phone book. A  charity website or mailing list or
> something. If not, I'll have to try freecycle.
>
> Regards,
>
> Neil.
>