I have come across this site while I was searching for "stay exchange" and "freecycle" terms in Google. While looking into the results returned for the latter, I had seen a Guardian article with this interesting title of "Flawed dream of free cycle schemes" which I had bookmarked for a later read. I would like to share it with you.

Article mentions the Amsterdam's famous "white bicycle" experiment which coincided with the another Amsterdam phenomenon: Provos. Basically it says that free cycle schemes are doomed because they are free and therefore people do not attach a value to them and they are abused.

I am not meaning to be pessimistic for timpara.com :-) But this is a fact:

Happy reading:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2007/jan/06/freestuff.guardianspecial435

The website Fastcoexits.com reports that the new proposals come from the ruling coalition of the Social Democrat and Green parties, and, if successfully enacted, would be accompanied by a publicity campaign to encourage Swedes to repair products instead of replacing them.

Please read further:

https://www.fastcoexist.com/3063935/sweden-wants-to-fight-our-disposable-culture-with-tax-breaks-for-repairing-old-stuff