Freenew™
Freenew™, created in 2012, is an innovative environmental solution for universities and other establishments. Freenew™ organizes university student donations by creating a recycling operation for the college community to donate items.
It provides an organized method to collect useful items, which would have otherwise been sent to a landfill, and give the items back to the student body—at no cost—the following semester.
A large number of usable items are thrown in the trash as students at Purchase rush to move out of their on-campus homes at the end of the school year. Freenew™ provides safe and easily accessible places for residents to donate unneeded but still usable items during Move Out week, so incoming residents can use these items for their own purposes during the beginning of the following school year.
We encourage students to keep these items on campus in order to save themselves money as well as reduce dumpster utility costs. To do so, Freenew™ has implemented a system where students can place objects in sheds around the campus. These act as holding containers for donated items over the summer months until students return for the fall semester and are free to take items from the Sheds.
Free Store
The FreeStore at Purchase is a sustainability and mutual aid service dedicated to reducing waste, subverting capitalism, and providing a space for the Purchase community to organize around ecological and social justice issues.
The FreeStore responds to the issues of waste and food insecurity in our campus community and provides an array of services such as clothing, art supplies, nonperishable food, household goods and appliances, books and magazines, and more!
We are actively working with other sustainability services to provide a space for students to get involved and donate at their convenience.
We aim to create space for student organizing, student events, and creating community.
