At sibley bike depot, we get a lot (currently almost too many!) of our bikes from st. paul neighborhood cleanups. the city has these cleanups where residents can bring all their unwanted crap and it gets recycled by various people/organizations (electronics, furniture, etc). we get the bikes. I don't know that a lot of cities do things like this, minneapolis, for example, doesn't b/c you can leave large items with your regular trash pickup. we've also started getting bikes from other cleanups from some of the suburbs.
alicia
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Wendy Monroe wendy.monroe@usermail.com wrote:
We have posted this flyer around on local bulletin boards in community organizations and grocery stores to collect donated bikes here for the 'Fix your bike' project in Amsterdam ... it has worked pretty well.
Text reads, roughly translated: ' Do you have somewhere an old bike ? That you don't do anything with anymore? Would you like to do something good with it? Then it would be very nice of you to donate it to the workshop, 'Fix your bike' for youth, sponsored by ( local community development organization..)
Hope this helps... I scanned the wonderful line drawing from a German anarchist bike repair book, 'Das Grosse Fahrradbuch.'
Wendy Monroe
On 01 Nov 2009, at 23:29, Erik Stockmeier wrote:
Are there any groups out there with strong partnerships with local municipalities or campuses to collect abandoned bicycles? I know the Recyclery (Chicago) and many other groups certainly pick up donations from police departments and the like, but we have a number of volunteers and a campus environmental group working on setting up a structured collection program and are looking for ways to proceed. Do you, for example, have a specific notice or flyer you attach to bikes? We are thinking of something that says "hello, this bike looks abandoned. if it is yours, you can fix it up at the recyclery. Otherwise it will be removed..."
Anyhow, just wondering if anyone has already done this. Thanks for your help!
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