Yoink!

One of Green Renters mantras is 'recycle, re-use, reclaim' and there's plenty of sources for finding and passing on no-longer-required items from Op-shops to garage sales and services such as Freecycle. Now there's a new and bang up-to-date service called Yoink! featuring a fancy website and iPhone app.

It's very simple to sign up, use and provide brief 140 character (sound familiar?) description of items you have to give. Each item will be geotagged allowing users to filter and view items based upon their neighbourhood, contact the 'giver' and arrange collection.

We haven't followed the system to its conclusion yet as, to be blunt, we don't need anything right now, but it certainly looks simple to use, well planned, nicely designed and hopefully, a hit!