[GreenYes] Re: Earliest Use of the term Freecycle

["M.Simons" <msimons@no.address>]

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Debra Lombard wrote:
> "The first freecycle site was started by Deron Beal, the manager of a
> nonprofit recycling service in Tucson, Ariz. in 2002
> when he couldn’t find any thrift stores to take the computers and desks
> companies wanted to recycle. So, he created a
> "cyber curb" where people could leave their trash for someone to pick up.'
> from www.pussycatmagazine.com/archives/retrohomedecor2005/freecycling.html

This is simply incorrect.  They got the date wrong.

It's also factually incorrect.
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MS