as far as I know the war is still on. you could consider donating the metal
for that effort. it was done during the last two big wars and boy scouts
would hold drives to collect metal. not sure if there is a need but I know
they are still rationing sugar.
On Aug 12, 2009 6:23pm, veganboyjosh@gmail.com wrote:
Community Cycles in Boulder partnered with our local
hard-to-recycle-materials public utility/non-profit, (called CHARM:
Center for HArd to Recycle Materials) which is the place people can take
old paint, tv sets, mattresses, tires, etc. The center finds markets for
this stuff, resells it, and keeps the stuff out of landfills as part of
their mission.
They now accept bicycles at their location, and allow us to come and pick
through for stuff we want, and leave the stuff we don't, for them to sell
as scrap metal. They get a rate for a specific purity of steel. A
bicycle, complete with rubber tires and tubes, plastic shifters,
reflectors, housing, etc, meets the percentage for steel that they get
paid, so they don't have to strip the parts off to get money for them.
The bikes get chipped up and sorted by material as little tiny pieces.
What this means for us us that it's a few crappy dept store bikes that we
don't have to deal with, and the only ones we have to transport away from
there are the good ones we want.
We also struck another deal with CHARM; we built up some bikes and gave
them to the center, and now we get free tire drop off. The old rate was
50 cents a tire, I believe.
We still accept trash bikes at our shop, but we put them straight into
our dumpster, and call our local junk guy when it's full. Some of the
dumpier bikes go straight in with zero strippage happening first,
depending on staff power, time, space, etc.
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Urban Bike Project Wilmington, DE
urbanbikeproject@gmail.com> wrote:
hey folks,
a moral or social dilemma: when your shop accepts donations of used
bikes, but you're already filled to the gills with hundreds of bikes that
may or may not ever get fixed up, how do you begin to turn away donations
that are really not worth the space? or do you? just looking for some
suggestions of how other shops have dealt with this issue. it gets to the
point where we don't have the time, space, or man-power to strip down all
those pieces-of-crap even to send to the scrap yard, but now that people
know that we accept used bikes, it's hard to know how to say no.
thanks!
sarah
Urban Bike Project of Wilmington -a 501(c)3 non-profit bike shop- 1908 N. Market Street (entrance is in the parking lot behind the building) Wilmington, DE 19802
Hours: Thursday 6:30-9:00
Saturday 1:00-4:00
Visit us online at http://urbanbikeproject.org
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