The Global Movement

The global movement that is the BNProject exists in hyper-local communities in 40 plus countries around the world, currently managed through the platform of Facebook groups although there is an app being developed. The ultimate goal of the BNProject movement is for each community to reach the point where a social media platform (such as Facebook) would be unnecessary for the gifting and asking and that it would simply take place organically within the communities where the movement has been started. This is one key difference between the BNProject and many other similar initiatives where gifting happens - the goal is to make the social media group obsolete when the community of people making person-to-person connections find they no longer need to make a post on the internet via social media for the gift economy to work. The keywords for most of those initiatives have to do with the "stuff" and trash reduction. The keyword for the BNProject is community and particularly hyper-local community so that gifting and asking can happen within a small enough radius to eliminate the need to drive for a drop off or pick-up. It's what happens very naturally in gift economies that exist in real-life communities.

Read more about this global movement on the official BNProject website.

Some recent press articles are linked below.

https://www.protocol.com/people/buy-nothing-facebook-growing

Washington Post article: 'Buy Nothing' groups: A place to share goods and service (subscription required)

https://www.realsimple.com/home-organizing/green-living/buy-nothing-groups