{"id":178306,"date":"2020-06-17T08:36:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T08:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=178306"},"modified":"2021-06-04T06:29:47","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T06:29:47","slug":"recycling-bicycles-why-is-it-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2020\/06\/17\/recycling-bicycles-why-is-it-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycling Bicycles: Why Is It Important?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A popular new trend in these climate-sensitive days is for restaurants and caterers to reduce waste by cooking with fruits and vegetables that would otherwise be thrown away by grocers or suppliers for cosmetic reasons \u2013 a bruise in a banana or apple, for example \u2013 or to offer diners the opportunity to take uneaten food home in a biodegradable box.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The idea is to reduce waste, because we are globally standing up to our hips in our own garbage. Our oceans are choked with trash and our cities are surrounded by landfills with mountains of trash.<\/p>\n

So it makes sense that there is also a movement to save the world from old, rejected bikes \u2013 in other words, bike recycling, such as New York City, Recycle-A-Bicycle (RAB). Not only does this organization refurbish bicycles that would otherwise be thrown in the trash, but it employs young people to renew the two-wheelers for their own use or for sale.<\/p>\n

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RAB is a not-for-profit outfit. All the bicycles are donated and the revenue from their sale is used for the youth education programs run by the group\u2019s parent organization, Bike New York.<\/p>\n

As the group says on its website<\/a>, \u201cOn average, RAB salvaged 1,800 bicycles each year from the waste stream, diverting a total of 45,000 pounds (about 20,412 kg) of waste from NYC\u2019s landfills.\u201d That is a lot of potential garbage.<\/p>\n

The UK\u2019s Re-Cycle\u2019s model is similar \u2013 but different. It accepts used bikes and sends them to four partner organizations in Africa, in four different countries, which repair, distribute and maintain them. It also sends spare parts and tools for free, which are sold there (as are the bikes) at a fraction of market value.<\/p>\n

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This leads to a number of positive outcomes, such as affordable transportation for local communities, the use of the income from the sale of the bikes to fund social enterprises and local employment and skill development and, of course, fewer bikes on the trash heap.<\/p>\n

As Re-Cycles declares on its website, \u201cThe ethos behind our work is sustainability.\u201d<\/p>\n

That must also be true for Al Schroader, otherwise known as \u201cBike Man.\u201d The Illinois pensioner has saved more than 3,000 bikes from being tossed onto landfills \u2013 and thereby saved the world from more than 3,000 bikes worth of trash \u2013 and given the refurbished two-wheelers to people who need them.<\/p>\n

“When I receive a bike,\u201d he says, \u201cmany times there are parts missing and other issues, such as tyres, and I have to determine if it\u2019s salvageable or not. Every bike has a story.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/lite-youtube>\n

Though he was featured on ABC News<\/a>, Schroader doesn\u2019t want to be considered special. \u201cWe\u2019re just so appreciative that people are being helped,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

There are bike recycling shops and organizations all over the world. They often have the word rescue in their name, such as Electric City Bike Rescue, in Schenectady, New York, which is a volunteer program that repairs and redistributes bikes that would otherwise be thrown away.<\/p>\n

Chances are good that there\u2019s a bike recycling place not far from you. So, if you\u2019ve got an old bike taking up space in your basement or storeroom and you\u2019re thinking of selling it to \u201cget something back\u201d or just throwing it away, think again. Think about getting back the satisfaction of helping someone in need of a bike they can\u2019t afford to buy and of saving us all (and our planet) from the garbage plague.<\/p>\n

Your old bike deserves a future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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