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    • ABOUT
      • MISSION & HISTORY
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    • SINGLE USE PLASTICS
      • SINGLE USE PLASTICS
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      • BALLOONS
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      • STRAWS
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Plastic Free Delaware
  • HOME
  • ABOUT
    • MISSION & HISTORY
    • WHO WE ARE
    • ANNUAL REPORTS
    • IN THE NEWS
  • SINGLE USE PLASTICS
    • SINGLE USE PLASTICS
    • BAGS
    • BALLOONS
    • EXPANDED POLYSTYRENE FOAM
    • STRAWS
    • SIX PACK RINGS/WRAPS
    • SYNTHETIC TURF
    • PFAS
  • ZERO WASTE
    • ZERO WASTE PRINCIPLES
    • FOOD WASTE
    • RIGHT TO REPAIR
    • LOCAL RESOURCES
    • REALLY REALLY FREE MARKET
  • FOOD WASTE/COMPOSTING
    • ABOUT DCCI
    • DCCI SITES
    • COMMUNITY COMPOST PROGRAM
    • DCCI SCHOOL PROGRAMS
    • COMPOSTING RESOURCES
    • BACKYARD COMPOSTING
    • OPTIONS TO GET STARTED!
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    • SLINGSHOT CHALLENGE
    • YES! YOUTH SUMMIT
    • PLASTIC FREE LUNCH DAY
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    • SCHOOL PROGRAMS
    • HOLD ON TO YOUR BUTT
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Plastic Free Delaware's first RRFM - Treasure Trunks in Nov 2025

REALLY REALLY FREE MARKET

Join One or Hold Your Own. Take a powerful and direct action to support neighbors, community, and the environment!

RRFM FAQs

What is a REALLY REALLY FREE MARKET?

  • Like a community yard sale where everything is free, a mutual aid opportunity
  • Communities, organizations, schools, businesses, and individuals participate
  • All items are provided to patrons for FREE no money is exchanged
  • An opportunity to ease economic stress among communities, promote sustainability in response to excessive natural resource exploitation, and provide a space for exchanging goods, food, and skills for free, highlighting an "economy of abundance". 

Why hold a REALLY REALLY FREE MARKET?

  • Environmental Response - to high waste society, climate change, and pollution 
  • Economic Response - save money, reduce impacts of increased costs, reaction to economic disparities 
  • Build Community - a way to share, care, give to each other in a safe space, create inclusivity and resilience, build trust and relationships
  • Promote Circularity - less taking of the Earth and more circulating of what is already available, keep money in the local economy, teach how circularity works and can be applied in other ways
  • Reduce Waste - keep clothing and goods out of landfills, promoting reuse and recycle, save money! 

Who can hold a REALLY REALLY FREE MARKET?

  • Anyone can hold an RRFM!
  • Best to hold with groups of people 
    • Churches
    • Schools
    • Businesses
    • Nonprofit organizations
    • Communities/Neighborhoods
    • Etc. 
  • Groups of people will provide a variety of items encouraging more people to attend

How to hold a REALLY REALLY FREE MARKET?

1. Instructions to hold an RRFM

2. Guidelines example

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