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Questions people ask

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.

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.

Can I lend my tools rather than give them away?: No, and the reason deserves to be said plainly rather than hidden behind a rule. In Belgium, household liability insurance almost always excludes damage to goods entrusted to you. If you lend your sander and it breaks at the neighbour's, neither your insurer nor theirs pays: you lose the tool, and you carry the risk, not them. Circule will not organise that without saying so. A tool you no longer need can be given; a tool you want back stays at home.
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.

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.
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.