Teilbar - the sharing app

@teilbar.bsky.social

Stop buying; start sharing with your community 💚 Sign-ups now open for the closed beta! ➤ teilbar.app 🔗

You know how things stopped being shareable? Digital movie or game licenses instead of physical copies. Streaming services instead of cassettes & CDs. “Do not share" notices appearing on some new books' ISBN pages. Capitalism has turned sharing into an act of resistance.

💡 Did you know? Multiple studies of communities that swap, borrow, barter, and trade underused or unwanted items have shown that local sharing helps lower waste production. • Things stay in use & out of landfills longer, • Fewer things need to be made = less production waste! #circulareconomy

Community sharing lowers waste
Multiple studies of communities that swap, borrow, barter, and trade underused or unwanted items have shown that local sharing contributes to lower waste production, and can have a bigger impact than recycling.
Sources: Julsrud, T. E.: "Sustainable sharing in local communities: exploring the role of social capital" for Local Environment v.28, 2024. Sandin, G., Peters, G.M.: "Environmental impact of textile reuse and recycling - A review" for Journal of Cleaner Production 184, 2018.