Welcome to EcoBees.com, a grassroots movement of people who are giving, getting and sharing stuff for free in their own towns. It's all about reducing, re-using, recycling and saving the planet. Membership is free!

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Welcome to EcoBees

Welcome to EcoBees, a worldwide movement of people who are giving, receiving, swapping & sharing stuff for FREE in their own towns and cities.

We were Freecycle™/Freegle members and noticed that some things could be made a bit easier whilst some things could be improved a lot to give a much better experience for members and the whole community. We've got maps, distance from you to the items, easier ability to add pictures, integration with Facebook, Twitter and we're 100% green.

We also felt that the rules about what could be offered and asked for was very limiting. We don't just focus on keeping good stuff out of landfills. EcoBees have widened that scope to include reusing/recycling/giving anything(as long as it's legal and not weapons) and also to include swapping & sharing such as car pooling. Find out more about EcoBees.com

Before you can start to use EcoBees you need to join the site, membership is free and once you've joined that's it, no groups to join, just sit back and wait for emails or view Ads on a map.

TOO MANY EMAILS?

We have spent a lot of time allowing you to have as much control of your email as possible. If you are getting too much email, please read the following to find out how to change your email settings.

Help for changing the distance and different categories of Ads can be found here, this will help you to only receive emails for books, or pets, etc...

You can get help for how to turn on and off different email subscriptions, including switching all email off and just browse Ads on the site.

EcoBees - as Tweeted by Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry the British Actor, Writer, Lord of Dance, Prince of Swimwear & Blogger has tweeted about EcoBees. Nothing else to say really, check him out at http://twitter.com/StephenFry. Thank you Mr Fry, you've got us grinning like Cheshire Cats ;-)

EcoBees - as seen on TV

Thanks to an article on BBC Click [opens in a new window], we are experiencing a LOT of new members and a LOT of new Ads.

Membership has jumped massively over the past 5 hours and it has only just been shown on UK TV this morning. We expect more members and more Ads.

Please bear with us whilst we deal with all our support tasks and approving Ads, etc. You may also experience a slower service than usual. We are looking at ways to speed up our service.

Many thanks to everybody who has joined and shown an interest, together we CAN make a difference!

Post Ads to Freecycle(tm) and Freegle

We have just launched our latest new feature that allows you to post your EcoBee Ads to your local Freecycle™ or Freegle group!!

Why?

Simple, to increase the number of people that see your Ads and therefore help to save the planet quicker! We know that we aren't the biggest kid on the block and we want to help freeshare as much as possible so posting to your local group makes this better.

It also makes your life a whole lot easier! Post Ads on EcoBees and we post it to your local group for you.
We'll format the title of your post correctly and add a link to your EcoBees Ad so people can see it on a map and see any pictures you may have posted too.
You don't need to go to Freecycle™ or Freegle to create your posts… ever again!! EcoBees can now be your one stop shop.

What should EcoBees's next new feature be?

We want you to help us decide what new feature we should add to EcoBees next. We're always open to suggestions and comments, but we wanted to be ready for the next round of development to make EcoBees the best it can be, so that it's working the way you want it to!

We have 2 ideas that we think would help make EcoBees easier or better to use. Firstly let's tell you what we're already working on…

Spread the word with EcoBees posters

Here are a couple of posters that you can print and stick on your workplace noticeboard, community hall, or wherever you think will be useful to help promote EcoBees in your area. The more people that know about and join EcoBees, the more we all benefit, including the planet!

EcoBees has Members Worldwide

EcoBees is growing quickly thanks to the support and belief of our members, members that span the globe! An average of 65 people join EcoBees every single day and the trend is increasing.

Since our initial launch on 8th March 2010, we now have hundreds of members in 8 countries over 3 continents. We have members in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Membership has increased 1000% in the past 3 weeks!! Why not join and become part of a fast growing community!

EcoBees does Twitter

EcoBees now integrates your Twitter account so that when you post an Ad on EcoBees, you also post it to your Twitter account.

Why?

Why would you want to use Twitter with EcoBees…

Get more people to see your Ads
Bragging rights - shows how green you are
Show support for EcoBees

EcoBees New Features

Always trying to be the best we can, we are VERY proud to introduce the newest version of EcoBees, cram packed full of new stuff to make your life even easier!

Biggest and Best

Here's a list of the best features that we've introduced to make your life easier when using EcoBees.

No groups to join

For gifting/reusing/recycling sites like ours, we believe this feature is unique to us, you no longer need to join any groups before you can use EcoBees. All you do is tell us how far you are willing to travel for items and we only tell you about those within that distance!