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2nd Annual UC Re*Use Market
The University of Cincinnati held its second annual Re*Use Market June 8-11, 2009. The event, held during exam week, as many students were moving out of residence halls and apartments, makes it possible to greatly reduce the amount of waste sent to the landfill, while also providing free materials to those who need them. The Re*Use Market allows students and other community members to bring items that they no longer want, browse the free market and take things away that they'd like, and then at the end of the week, all remaining items were donated to local charities (Saint Vincent de Paul and the Freestore/Foodbank). The event grew considerably this Spring as UC students nearly filled a POD (donated by a local company) with furniture, clothing, electronics, books and household items. Many things were taken by students and neighborhood residents attending the open-air market and many of those same people came back later with items from their homes that were no longer needed.
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