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Your recycling brain storm is the next craze on the block. Get your best town bonnet on and hitch up the wagon. There’s a Flea market recycling going on! Flea markets are a current and clever reaction of urban and suburban consumers interested in economical re-use rather than costly purchase of new goods. They are also called swap meets.
Flea markets have been around for a while, but not with sustainable living in mind. Every old piece of scrap lumber or project wood might be of use. Forests won’t fall because wood sat in piles rotting because consumers couldn’t organize or source it properly. People can’t buy according to supply if they see no supply. Flea markets are all about displaying supply.
This hot re-use recycling craze reflects sustainable living and green planning. One person and one vehicle riding the junk away to a new home brings down carbon emissions and traffic conditions.
Flea market recycling is the hottest used goods and consumer product aftermarket available. Simply show up and bring all your used junk. Somebody will want it, and they will have something you want. The English call this a “boot sale”. Americans call it a flea market. Either way, it yields extra space and puts old junk to recycled good new uses.
Flea market recycling can happen in a one family manner or using a block or neighborhood system. The key is to motivate people to move their old junk on. Everybody hangs onto something. Some people just have a garage full of stuff. Free stuff or low cost stuff can fuel the ride home and pay for gas for next week’s trip.
Build a network of recycling flea market supplers. The person who doesn’t have anything this week for the flea market will have decided by next week they can do without that old sewing machine, 8 track tape player, etc. Those ancient “collectibles” may simply get boxed up and appear in front of your driveway overnight.
Knock on doors, post bulletins at coffee shops, create an email list, or just cruise around and get the word out. Once a month, find the guy on the block with the truck. Tell him to be ready Saturday morning.
Load up the truck with whatever gas money the block contributes, especially the ones that shoved the old junk out the door.
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