Our experience mirrors Rockville Bike Hub's. Hopefully this means we are being successful in letting donors know to bring bikes to us directly. It can be a mixed blessing...
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On 2024-04-04 17:29, Stephen Andruski via TheThinkTank wrote:
The Rockville Bike Hub is allowed to pick up bikes from our local recycling center. Before the pandemic we were going fairly regularly,
though there was decreasing value. Since the pandemic, there have been very few bikes worth getting.Once people have found out we accept bikes, many more have come straight to us.
Steve Andruski
On Thu, Apr 4, 2024, 5:12 PM Bike Regina via TheThinkTank thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org wrote:
The person you want to ask is Stan Yu at BCBC in Saskatoon. They have an amazing waste diversion program.
operations@bridgecitybicyclecoop.com
Angèle Bike Regina board member
-----Original Message----- From: alex.hindle--- via TheThinkTank thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Sent: Thursday, April 4, 2024 2:41 PM To: thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org Cc: alex.hindle@bikeedmonton.ca Subject: [TheThinkTank] collecting bikes from municipal eco-stations/waste dropoff sites
Hello! We're talking with managers at our city eco stations (household waste dropoff sites) about their collecting bikes that we (Bike Edmonton) can then pickup to reuse. They already get a lot of bikes dropped off in their scrap metal bins, but these are all scrapped at the moment. I wondered if any other groups have arrangements with waste drop-off sites/reuse centres to do this? If so, can you share the arrangement you have and process you use. Do you select useful bikes from a big pile, do workers there filter out what they think are good bikes, or do you have to take them all? This seems to be one of the bigger challenges we need to figure out.
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