Nation’s most sharing suburbs revealed
Sydney, Australia – Aussies are showing their renowned generosity in the lead-up to the first Global Sharing Week – with 33,000 members registered on TuShare, Australia’s fastest-growing sharing platform.
TuShare is a new online place for people to give away their pre-loved and pre-owned things – and that’s the spirit of Global Sharing Week, the world’s biggest mass engagement campaign, which starts this Sunday. It follows the extraordinary success of Global Sharing Day, which reached more than 100 million people around the world in 2014.
In preparation for Global Sharing Week, TuShare has compiled nationwide data that reveals how the movement is spreading, as people passionate about sustainability, neighbourliness and the joy of giving sign up. They are the members of the “re-use revolution”, a global phenomenon for sharing things you no longer need with someone who does, and protecting the environment by keeping consumer goods out of landfill.
This data snapshot shows that of the 3300-plus postcodes in Australia, nearly 60 per cent (1939) have someone who is a TuShare community member.
Sydney has the suburbs with most people signed up so far, led by three inner-city postcodes: Newtown (221), Surry Hills (220) and Millers Point (216).
In Victoria, the Melbourne postcode (3000) has 156 members, ahead of Brunswick (120), Northcote (119), Frankston and Batman (both 108).
In Queensland, Brookside, Everton Hills, South Brisbane and Highgate Hill (77) just shade Lower Belford (74), while Adelaide (58) and Salisbury (41) lead the way in South Australia.
Tasmania is best represented by East Launceston (44) and both Glebe and Lenah Valley (36), while Cooloongup and Baldivis (16), Leederville, Greenwood, Warwick, Kingsley and Woodvale (15) show the way for WA.
Hackett (123) and Charnwood (109) are most prominent in the ACT, while Millner stands out in the Northern Territory with 33 TuShare members.
The postcode data also shows that Penrith in outer-western Sydney has twice as many sign-ups as the exclusive harbourside suburbs Vaucluse and Rose Bay, and nearby Woollahra.
Nationwide, the suburbs with most items already given away – from bicycles, sewing machines and guitars to baby rockers, pianos and vacuum cleaners – are Gladesville (672), Kogarah (470), Lewisham and Petersham (395), all in Sydney, and Jerrabomberra in country NSW.
Commenting on their first postcode study, TuShare CEO, James Bradfield Moody, said: “While New South Wales is so well represented, as you would expect from the most populous state, the statistics overall reveal a celebration of Australian community generosity from coast to coast.
“We are asking Australians wherever they live to #ShareTheGood and rehome as little as one item during Global Sharing Week. It’s heartening to see so many people already involved.”
People who want to join the sharing revolution (and participate in Global Sharing Week) can sign on TuShare at www.tushare.com and simply upload a photo and the details. Those who want to receive pre-owned goods can sign up too.
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About TuShare
TuShare harnesses the power of the peer-to-peer marketplace to make it easier than ever to give things we no longer need to our friends, family and neighbours. This saves money and the planet, and is scientifically proven to make us happier. Launched in late 2013, more than 33,000 members have signed up to TuShare, making it one of the fastest-growing sharing platforms in Australia. ABC’s New Inventors judge and former CSIRO executive James Bradfield Moody and Kohei Nishimiya (named one of Fast Company’s 100 most creative people in business) developed TuShare which taps into everyone’s natural sense of generosity.
TuShare is Australia’s first tech company to become a B Corporation for driving social change through using business as a force for good. Certified B Corporations are leading a global movement to redefine success in business, distinguishing themselves in a cluttered marketplace by offering a positive vision of a better way to do business.
