As part of the City of Barrie Free Goods Exchange Day, bring your household goods, your garage sale goods, your re-useables like books, CDs, services, dusty great stuff from your basement that you could trade or barter, bikes, trikes, boats, planes and trains.
You can add your goods to our list of items that will be available at the Trade Barter Site.
We will have an area for you to swap, barter and bargain your way into sustainable living. No Cash Will Change Hands Here!! Free Trade means Trade for Free or Barter for Better or Worse.
Supply your own table, and take home some great new things in trade for your old unwanted things.
Items that have been listed with us so far.
Electronics Recycling Depot on Site
DISCLAIMER
The City of Barrie and the management of Ecofest Barrie are not responsible for the quality and/or durability of any product or service that is traded or bartered.
Management reserves the right to refuse or eject any participant who deals in any monetary gain from this process. We are interested in sustainable futures by recycling and re-using unwanted goods.
- You are responsible for the cleanup and removal of your own products. All products must comply with environmental standards.
- No gas fired motors, no chemical producing or hazard waste producing items are allowed.
- Barter Area is totally restricted to non-selling vendors. Saturday 8am to 8pm Sunday 9am to 5pm.
- All unwanted items must be removed by the owner by the end of each day and the table must be attended by someone at all times.
- First come first served. For inquiries email: bartertrade@ecofestbarrie.ca
ChocoSol
Michael Sacco is a technologist, writer and chocolatier. He founded ChocoSol, an artisanal chocolate company which he as termed a learning community social enterprise promoting the diversity of production of organic cacao through a structure defined as horizontal trade. Rather than sell commodities, says Michael, ChocoSol extends symbolic invitations: The chocolate is an expression and vehicle for our dignity, creativity and learning.
Honoured as Toronto Food Policy Councils Local Food Hero in September 2009, he believes in open-source learning and building, and has been designing green production systems using solar power, pedal power, and waste diversion and upcycling techniques. ChocoSols bicycle-powered chocolate grinders earned it the title of Torontos Best New Bicycle Business in 2008.
At GreenGo Recycling Depot we don't see discarded televisions, computers, and cell-phones as waste. Instead we see copper, steel, precious metals, and plastics. We see secondary commodities ripe for the harvesting. We see a new form of mining above ground that doesn't require digging into the earth. We see an opportunity to reuse and recycle while still creating new products.
Metals and electronics recycling yields 100 times per ton more product than mining, and uses 1000 times less energy.
We also believe in reimbursing people for the value of their urban ore, offering incentives and helping spread the message that recycling is not only good for the environment, it's good for our economy as well. So next time you have metals or electronics to dispose of go green with GreenGo.
"If everyone knew more about recycling everyone would recycle more."
This simple idea is one of the driving factors at GreenGo Recycling Depot, people need to know more to do more. Our community has expressed a sincere interest in recycling and green technologies, establishing itself as one of the Greenest Cities in North America. These factors make the City of Barrie a perfect vehicle for Ecofest.
Ecofest is Barrie's own environmental technology and lifestyle festival presenting a plethora of organizations, individuals, and artists all eager to share, educate, and promote a 'greener' lifestyle. It is for these reasons that GreenGo is honoured to be an Ecofest partner, promoting modern environmentalism and supporting our City.
Please visit www.greengosolutions.com for more information.
Fair Labor Practices are not necessarily restricted to agriculture but generally support fair wages and healthy working conditions. Fair Trade Certification guarantees consumers that strict economic, social and environmental criteria were met in the production and trade of an agricultural product. Sweatshop-free describes the absence of manufacturing conditions currently existing in many countries, referred to as "sweatshops".
They are production facilities or factories where goods are produced cheaply by minimizing workers' salaries, and increasing working hours. Proper environmental health standards are diminished, yet demands for high levels of productivity still remain. These sweatshops may thrive from corporations seeking to increase profits by subcontracting inexpensive labor. go-green.com
All materials to be shown at the festival must pass our GREEN INSPECTION and will
be subject to removal without prejudice or harm intended. We are a Green Festival and
we ask that you respect the following:
The following items will not be allowed: Styrofoam, Plastic Water Bottles, Hand distributed flyers (other than those previously approved), plastic bags, plastic utensils. Please do not post any bills or signs outside of your own presentation area.
Smoking is not permitted on the Festival Grounds and there is to be no Idling on Festival property.
