Here you'll be able to read more about us, why we set Fridge Mountain up, and more about our service. If there's something you want to know that isn't covered here, please don't hesitate to contact us.
Fridge Mountain allows you to search for free items being offered or requested near you, and allows you to list your own offers and requests.
To browse and search the site, use the links in the main menu at the top of the site. To make a new listing, use the 'Your account' area on the right hand side of the site (you must have a Fridge Mountain account and be logged into the site to do this).
To find out more about using Fridge Mountain, please see our quick guide.
Fridge Mountain is free and available for anyone to use - anyone from private individuals and small businesses to charities, governmental organisations and large corporations. The main condition for using Fridge Mountain is that everything you give away, you give away free of charge.
Of course, anyone using Fridge Mountain must comply with our terms and conditions, and we reserve the right to ban members and remove listings at our own discretion.
If you represent a large organisation, please contact us so we can discuss how Fridge Mountain can fit in with your waste disposal requirements.
Fridge Mountain is simple, secure and efficient.
If you like the idea, sign up and we'll keep you informed of new items near you.
Yes. The principle is the same.
Additionally, we decided to deal with a lot of the difficulties that people have had with The Freecycle NetworkTM.
As many of you probably remember, in 2002 and 2004, the UK was afflicted with a series of scandals involving the build up of discarded fridges at local council waste disposal sites. New EU regulations had made it illegal to dump old fridges on conventional landfill sites, due to the hazardous substances they contain. Manchester alone collected over 120,000 discarded fridges!
Although this problem has now been largely solved, with proper recycling processes in place for white goods, those pictures in the newspaper and on television of literal mountains of old fridges really highlighted for us the growing problem of waste and disposal in our society, not to mention the dwindling natural resources each of those fridges represented.
The real irony of the situation is that many of those fridges were probably in perfect working order; they weren't broken, but simply unwanted, but there's simply no market for this type of second hand product. Well, there wasn't, but there is now!
Yes, unfortunately at the moment we're only operating in the UK. We do have plans to expand into other parts of the world soon.
We have a free affiliation scheme to allow website owners to display Fridge Mountain items on their website(s).
Fridge Mountain is joint project between Whirlwind Match Limited and db|design. See our team page for more information.
A few examples of what our members have recently given each other:
Fran found a new home for some shelves, and unexpectedly rehomed a 6 foot high house plant too.
Rob shifted a big old chest of drawers he no longer wanted... it was picked up within a couple of hours of being posted on the site!
Lindsey found a wheel-barrow for her allotment.
13th July, 2007
It's finally summer!
6th July, 2007
Fridge Mountain is now a CIC
6th April, 2007
We've put it on the map!
8th March, 2007
New feature -- choose the emails you want to receive
31st January, 2007
Fridge Mountain featured on BBC Radio