Redistribution Markets

= one of three forms of sharing infrastructures or Collaborative Consumption identified by Rachel Botsman in The Rise of Collaborative Consumption

Description

"This system is based on used or pre-owned goods being passed on from someone who does not want them to someone who does want them. This is another alternative to the more common 'reduce, reuse, recycle, repair' methods of dealing with waste." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_consumption)

Examples

Examples include: Clothes swapping (ThredUp, Craigslist, eBay), Swap trading (Swaptree.com, Freecycle), Book swapping (BookMooch, ReaditSwapit)."