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

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From: alex.hindle--- via TheThinkTank
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Sent: Thursday, April 4, 2024 2:41 PM
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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.

Thanks very much!
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