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Vdumpsters.com offers free product exchange service, where you can locally post or shop for free used goods. Their purpose is to promote re-use, which extends the life of a product, and therefore, delays its inevitable journey to a landfill somewhere.  They recently launched in January, 2008, and has accumulated 2,000 registered users to date.

If this sounds familiar, you are probably thinking of FreeCycle.org, the originator of free give-n-get service.  They’re grassroots and completely nonprofit. They have a very impressive user base at around 4.5 million users globally. Click here to go to Oakland’s FreeCycle group page.