Saving Money With ‘Buy Nothing’ Facebook Groups

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By NTD Newsroom
July 15, 2024NTD Tonight
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In 2013, with the idea to rethink purchasing habits and reduce items from going to the landfill, two friends from Bainbridge Island, Washington, started an experimental local gift economy called the Buy Nothing Project. Since then, it has become a worldwide social movement, with 128,000 Buy Nothing communities in 44 nations around the world. NTD’s Helen Billings has the story.