Baby clothes and toys, swiftly outgrown by their users, are often high on the list of items that circulate. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - By 9pm on April 5, the authorities in Ottawa, capital of Canada, had reports of 600 trees down and a million people plunged into darkness as an intense ice storm lashed the area. Two people died, both hit by falling trees or branches.“People who still had power offered freezer space for use to preserve food,” says 43-year-old writer Jodi Ettenberg, an Ottawa resident and member of her local Buy Nothing group, which is part of the Buy Nothing movement.
The Buy Nothing movement replicates an old-fashioned neighbourhood network. It has more than six million members across 44 countries, including Singapore. The group Ms Ettenberg is in has about 2,100 members. Someone who wants to get rid of an old yet still functional appliance, for instance, can make a post on their local Buy Nothing group and another household that needs the item can pick it up for free.
A recent report in a major American publication, Wired, proclaimed that the movement had “imploded” following members’ disagreements with the founders, or with one another.“Not only are we setting up more and more Buy Nothing groups on Facebook, we’re also getting on average 1,500 new downloads a day of the Buy Nothing app,” Ms Clark said. “We have upwards of 132,000 monthly active users of the app.
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