Use one or more of the following to find freecycling groups or services local to you:

• Google - google "freecycle <name of your community>".
  
  
• craigslist - a classifieds service that also supports freecycling.
• EduCycle - a classifieds service that also supports freecycling for educators & businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area.
  
• FreecyclePlus - a new freecycling service with a cool user interface
• Freegle - a directory to groups, especially in the UK (freegling is the UK word for freecycling).
• FreelyWheely - a freecycling directory/service.
  
• FreeMesa.org - a freecycling service.
  
• FreeSharing - a directory to freecycling groups.
• FreeUse Network - a directory to freecycling groups.
• FullCircles - a directory to freecycling groups in Canada.
• Marketplace/Oodle - a classifieds service that also supports freecycling via Facebook.
  
• Recycling Group Finder - a large directory to freecycling groups worldwide.
• Reuseit Network (RIN) - a directory to freecycling groups.
• Sharing is Giving - a directory to freecycling groups.
• The Freecycle Network (TFN) - the oldest dedicated freecycling directory/service (note: TFN stumbled in being FREE and LEGAL but may be improving, see History).
• Trash Nothing - maintains a large freecycling directory and also offers an email service.
  
• Yahoo Recycling Groups - a directory of groups.

When you first join a freecycle group or service, observe it for a while to see how it operates and verify it is a real freecycle site -- you can usually tell by the nature of the posts. If you see a lot of people giving and receiving items for free, you've come to the right place. It's up to you to pick a group (or groups), large or small, in which you are happy to freecycle. You may participate as little or as much as you wish.

No group near enough or think you can run a better one than currently exists? Then create your own using our directions at Create a Group!

Notes:

• Groups are usually independent email lists using an email list service like Yahoo Groups or something similar.
• Services are specialized web services that may or may not use email.
• The group directories and services listed above are outside of Freecycle Forever. While we link to them we are not responsible for their content or policies. Please contact the relevant owner of each if you have issues with any of them.
• If there is a significant freecycle directory or service that is missing, please send it to webmaster@freecycleforever.org.
• Freecycle Forever is a general educational resource about freecycling and not an individual group directory service. We do try to list ALL of the major freecycle directories. Thanks!