Bike Saviours partners with a local Keep America Beautiful affiliate, Keep Phoenix Beautiful, and has tabled at their hosted recycling events throughout the year for the last six years. The event is organized to include local recyclers, of which we are invited as the bike collectors. Among others tabling are electronics recyclers, sensitive document shredders, and a few small/local nonprofits that collect teaching and household supplies. This is where our broken or otherwise culled bike computers go. The local recycler of electronics is Friedman Recycling - perhaps there's one in your city?

Links!
https://kab.org/
https://www.keepphxbeautiful.org/
https://www.keepphxbeautiful.org/i-recycle-phoenix
https://friedmanrecycling.com/recycling/

Cheers,
Nicole Muratore, Shop Manager (she/her)
Bike Saviours Bicycle Collective
(602) 429-9369 | bikesaviours.org | @bikesaviours


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Date: Sat, 4 May 2024 10:03:09 -0400
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Hi Everyone, 

I've announced I'll be stepping down from my position as Phoenix Bikes' Executive Director at the end of August. I've absolutely loved this role over the past five and a half years and would love to see us find an exceptional person to lead Phoenix Bikes into the future! 

Phoenix Bikes is an Arlington, Virginia nonprofit that uniquely combines youth educational programs with a full-service bike shop. We pursue a dynamic mission: harnessing the power of bikes to help youth build passion, purpose, and a place in the community. Our incredible supporters—including individual donors, foundations and corporate sponsors, and bike shop customers—make it possible for us to offer our youth programs entirely free of cost and to offer repairs and sales at affordable prices, so that we can serve the underserved in our community. You can learn more about Phoenix Bikes and our work at www.phoenixbikes.org.

The Executive Director has overall responsibility for ensuring that programs—both our youth training programs and our community bike shop—are running successfully, executing successful fundraising, managing the financial health and the sustainability of the organization, developing staff, and managing operations. This full-time position manages an annual operating budget of about $700,000 and an outstanding team of five full-time staff and 7-12 part-time staff, supported by over 100 volunteers.

Please see our Indeed posting for further details: Phoenix Bikes Executive Director. Applications close May 14. 

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Date: Mon, 6 May 2024 16:03:55 -0700
Subject: [TheThinkTank] What do y'all do with old cycling computers?
Hi, all,

Our shop's been slowly amassing too many donated old cyclometers (like the old wired ones with spoke-mounted magnets, lots of Cateyes and some Shimanos and other brands). I'm seeing that when they're complete in a box and have all the parts they sometimes sell on eBay, but generally our clientele is not interested in this now obsolete tech.

We don't currently have an electronics recycling partner, but I'm worried that looking for a way to recycle these is our only option. Does anyone in this group have wisdom to share on this topic before we go down that route? What have your other shops done with yours?

Thanks in advance!
--
Triss Cimò (they/them)
Crew at The Bicycle Tree, Santa Ana, California



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We'd be interested in folks' ideas, too, at the Bicycle Co-Op of Williamsburg (VA).

On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 7:06 PM Triss Cimò via TheThinkTank <thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org> wrote:
Hi, all,

Our shop's been slowly amassing too many donated old cyclometers (like the old wired ones with spoke-mounted magnets, lots of Cateyes and some Shimanos and other brands). I'm seeing that when they're complete in a box and have all the parts they sometimes sell on eBay, but generally our clientele is not interested in this now obsolete tech.

We don't currently have an electronics recycling partner, but I'm worried that looking for a way to recycle these is our only option. Does anyone in this group have wisdom to share on this topic before we go down that route? What have your other shops done with yours?

Thanks in advance!
--
Triss Cimò (they/them)
Crew at The Bicycle Tree, Santa Ana, California
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Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 09:44:47 +0100
Subject: [TheThinkTank] Re: What do y'all do with old cycling computers?
Hi there
In Lisbon we have the same issue, lots of donations and nobody wants them,
We just stock it waiting for a solution.
We are glad somebody is worried about it.
Please share the developments with us.
Cheers.
João Clemente



Triss Cimò via TheThinkTank <thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org> escreveu (terça, 7/05/2024 à(s) 00:03):
Hi, all,

Our shop's been slowly amassing too many donated old cyclometers (like the old wired ones with spoke-mounted magnets, lots of Cateyes and some Shimanos and other brands). I'm seeing that when they're complete in a box and have all the parts they sometimes sell on eBay, but generally our clientele is not interested in this now obsolete tech.

We don't currently have an electronics recycling partner, but I'm worried that looking for a way to recycle these is our only option. Does anyone in this group have wisdom to share on this topic before we go down that route? What have your other shops done with yours?

Thanks in advance!
--
Triss Cimò (they/them)
Crew at The Bicycle Tree, Santa Ana, California
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