Statistics

Community - find statistics about your community on the ModTools Dashboard. Your community's member count is on the website homepage, and on Members > Approved.

Councils - Freegle has a toolkit on the website with lots of information for local councils: https://councils.ilovefreegle.org/

Members - members can see statistics for their community by clicking 'stats' on the community homepage. Bar charts and line charts cover a year; pie charts cover a month.

Flytipping - in 2019, Freegle saved £167,910 in prevented fly-tipping. A couple of statisticians at DEFRA did some pro bono work for us in July 2020, estimating the cost of fly-tipping we've prevented; the report is here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1drC7kpPQy-JjVKJtb15d4Vog2o-2C1VB?usp=sharing

Weight statistics - there are several stages to our estimates:

• We started with the 2009 Furniture Reuse Network estimates, expanded to include some non-furniture items
• We use these to estimate the weight of items diverted from the waste stream, using a weighted average value for other items
• We then use the WRAP Benefits of Reuse tool to convert weight into a CO2 and monetary estimate - the tool is mentioned in the report here: https://preprod.wrap.org.uk/sites/default/files/2020-09/WRAP-Domestic%20Furniture%20chapter_final_1.pdf and available here: https://www.wrap.ngo/resources/tool/benefits-of-reuse-tool

This is an area sorely lacking standardised data, but it's about the best we've found.

Survey - in January 2024, a small survey of Freegle users was conducted, attracting 76 respondents (microvolunteers), run via Google Forms, covering a variety of basic questions. The results were posted on Central in April 2024: https://discourse.ilovefreegle.org/t/freegle-user-survey/7304

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