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Taoiseach Enda Kenny with Hugh Coughlan, Dublin City Council and Brenda McEvoy, FreeTrade Ireland

Taoiseach Enda Kenny today launched a new smartphone app for FreeTradeIreland.ie, the national online reuse service, which allows members to post photos of their unwanted items and find them a new home.

The app, which is available free of charge, allows users to register as a member, upload, search for and manage items.

The Taoiseach said:

It's particularly fitting that the new FreeTrade Ireland Smartphone app is being launched during the EU Week of Waste Reduction.  This app should help people find new owners for items that are no longer wanted, while allowing others to find the items they need - for free.  Everyone should be encouraged to save on the cost of disposal and on the cost of buying and, in doing so, cut down on waste.  This is in line with the Government's policy of becoming a recycling society, by not only reducing waste but by realising the resources we can recover from waste.