Swaptree is a unique website that allows users to trade books, textbooks, CDs, DVDs and video games with other users for free.  Members simply list the items that they are trading and the items they want, and Swaptree’s two and three-way trade algorithms instantly find all of the items that they can receive for the items that they have.

Swaptree is completely free, and users only pay for postage, which means that they can get a book, CD, DVD, or video game for around two dollars.  Swaptree even simplifies the mailing process, by providing users the ability to print a perfect postage label right from their printer, so they don’t have to weigh items, buy stamps, or even go to the post office.

For Earth Day 2009, Swaptree is working with The Nature Conservancy’s ‘Plant a Billion Trees’ initiative and will be planting a tree for every trade completed on Earth Day.  While currently several thousand trades happen every day on Swaptree, our goal on Earth Day is to do 10,000 trades and plant 10,000 trees.  While the average Swaptree user, given its emphasis on recycling and sharing, lowers their yearly carbon footprint by 180 pounds, with this initiative we hope to offset several thousand tons of CO2.

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