Give. Take. Keep it moving!
You have too much of it. Someone is looking for it. Circule is the local exchange for materials still in use in Casteau: what is in your way is what a neighbour needs. Giving, salvage, reuse and sharing between residents, free, with no payment.
Six streams
- free building materials in Casteau : Reusable materials
- free grass clippings in Casteau : Healthy plant matter
- free firewood in Casteau : Fuel and timber
- garden surplus in Casteau : Harvest and plants
- free moving boxes in Casteau : Crates, jars, boxes
- free furniture in Casteau : Furniture, books, toys
The rest of this stream
- Bricks, blocks, breeze blocks in Casteau
- Floor tiles, wall tiles, skirting in Casteau
- Slabs, paving, kerbs in Casteau
- Natural stone in Casteau
- Roof tiles and slates in Casteau
- Rigid insulation boards in Casteau
- Clean rubble and hardcore in Casteau
- Bags of cement, lime, render in Casteau
- Fresh grass clippings in Casteau
- Branches and prunings in Casteau
- Fallen leaves in Casteau
- Straw and hay in Casteau
- Wood chip, ramial chipped wood in Casteau
- Firewood logs in Casteau
- Rounds and unsplit logs in Casteau
- Kindling in Casteau
- Boards and solid wood offcuts in Casteau
- Pallets and crating in Casteau
- Garden and orchard surplus in Casteau
- Windfall picking (orchard) in Casteau
- Nuts in Casteau
- Seedlings, cuttings, herbs in Casteau
- Local seed in Casteau
- Packing boxes in Casteau
- Crates and slatted boxes in Casteau
- Glass jars and bottles in Casteau
- Plastic crates and bins in Casteau
- Plant pots and trays in Casteau
- Buckets and drums in Casteau
- Tables, chairs, shelves, wardrobes in Casteau
- Garden furniture in Casteau
- Fittings and fixtures in Casteau
- Books, comics, textbooks in Casteau
- Toys, games and puzzles in Casteau
- Baby gear: cot, high chair, pushchair, playpen in Casteau
- Mirrors and intact glazing in Casteau
How it works
- You post a material in ten seconds.
- Neighbours following that stream are told.
- A neighbour comes and loads it at your place. You confirm, and it is done.
Frequently asked questions
- I do not want to give out my address.
- It is never public. The map shows a 200 m circle. The exact address appears inside the app, to the one person who has reserved, for as long as the reservation lasts. It never goes out by email.
- I will have anyone turning up at my door.
- You set the time slot. Until you accept, nobody knows where you live.
- Facebook already does this.
- Local groups work well, and we post our listings there too. They mix everything into one feed, a bag of clippings, a lost cat, a car boot sale, and your post surfaces when the algorithm decides. Here a neighbour says once that they are after grass clippings within three kilometres, and they get told. Every listing carries the quantity, the load size, the distance and an end date: it clears itself when the material is gone. Something that comes back every week is declared once and reactivated in one click.
- This is going to be complicated.
- Posting takes 30 seconds. No password to remember, a link sent by email is enough.
- What if the person never shows up?
- You flag it in one click. The item goes back online automatically.
- Is Circule recycling?
- Not quite, and that is better. Recycling means grinding a material down to make another one, which costs transport and energy. Here the material keeps its shape and changes hands: this is reuse, salvage, direct giving between neighbours. A brick stays a brick, a book stays a book. Upcycling comes afterwards, at the house that collected it: a pallet becomes a shelf, a jar becomes a preserve.
- What does it cost?
- Nothing, for you and for the council. Circule is a pilot carried by its author, and no payment goes through the platform. No paid sign-up, no commission, no subscription.
- Can I sell instead of giving?
- No. Circule handles no payment. Everything that passes through it is free.
Where Circule works
Circule covers 10 km around Casteau: Soignies, Maisières, Thieusies, Naast, Masnuy-Saint-Jean, Neufvilles. Anyone inside that radius can post and reserve; browsing is open to all.
For councils: waste prevention and local reuse · About Circule