The aim of I-recycle is to provide a central point for people offering items that they no longer require or need. The passing on of these items reduces the amount of usable goods going to landfill sites across the UK.
It was created on April 11, 2006 as an alternative to the existing Freecycle Network.
Several existing users expressed displeasure of the usage of the Yahoo!Groups framework and the amount of email received by subscribers.

As a result of these issues and others, the website was created to replace the yahoo groups and to promote the use of advance functionaility like RSS

RSS

-Mathematics:* Root-sum-square, the square root of the sum of the squares of the elements of a data set* Residual sum of squares in statistics-Technology:* RSS , "Really Simple Syndication" or "Rich Site Summary", a family of web feed formats...

 and geomapping information.

I-recycle is currently based in the UK. However the spread of I-recycle to Ireland

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

 and possibly other countries is both welcome and foreseeable.

External links

As of Feb 2011 this site appears to be a parked domain

• A compelling alternative to Recycling

See also

• Environmental Waste Controls
  Environmental waste controls
  -Overview:Environmental Waste Controls plc is a privately held Merseyside- based UK company, who provide waste management and recycling solutions for various types of industry...
  
   plc
• Recycling
  Recycling
  Recycling is processing used materials into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials, reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air pollution and water pollution by reducing the need for "conventional" waste disposal, and lower greenhouse...
  
  
• The 2000s commodities boom
  2000s commodities boom
  The 2000s commodities boom is the rise in many physical commodity prices which occurred during the decade of the 2000s , following the Great Commodities Depression of the 1980s and 1990s...
  
  
• PowerGenix
  PowerGenix
  PowerGenix is a San Diego-based company developing rechargeable batteries, Nickel-zinc and recycling batteries. Nickel-Zinc are generally viewed much safer than Nickel-cadmium. Cadmium is banned in the EU, Toys R Us and Mattel...