Sharing, repurposing, and communicating on "Buy Nothing"

The local online service called "Buy Nothing" (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_Nothing_Project) matches residents offering something to residents requesting something. Particularly during the pre-vaccination "lock down" months of February to April 2020 the online communication service expanded and attracted many users by word of mouth. Part of the concept is to bring people closer together by letting a person rid themselves of unwanted or unused or unneeded things. Rather than to sell or to add to the solid-waste landfill, allowing others to make use of an old bike, disused skates, a box of buttons or screws, etc, announcing one's items for others to request solves three problems at once: less waste, ridding the donor of it, and supplying the seeker with it.

This photo in late May is another Buy Nothing example: excess backyard or landscaping plants to give away. Since each district for Buy Nothing residents is capped by headcount, when a district grows too big, it subdivides. That way the pool of people participating encourages some interaction and repeated social contacts online and sometimes face to face. The legacy of Covid transmission times, though, has normalized the "tagged bag" approach: item has name of person picking up the give-away. In some examples, too many respond to the offer. At that point the donor can do a random drawing, or possibly favor 'first-come, first-served' or choose a repeat relationship to the donor (maybe the donor previously took possession of the requestor's give-away).

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