Some background on Freecycle
Written on the original Movable Type site and recovered from the Internet Archive.
In researching recommerce, I came across a well written article from Grist on Freecycle and the conflict they had with Waste Management as a sponsor. When WM first sponsored, Freecycle was 1.2M users, now it is > 6M. The “fracas” doesn’t seem to have hurt them.