Hi,

We have lots of experience with this. At present, we have agreements with two municipal landfills (Long Island, NY) to get bikes. In both cases, the landfills are very eager to work with us. Even though there's some bureaucracy, it's manageable.

In one case, it's working like a dream. This landfill is very focused on recycling. They pre-sort the bikes for us, and even deliver them. The quality has been really (and uniformly) good. We're lucky that the landfill manager is a cyclist. We get about 30 bikes per month from them.

With the other landfill, we pick them up with a trailer. They gave us an open container specifically for bike donations in an area where people can also donate things like building supplies, clothes, electronics, etc. Unfortunately, people will sometimes throw regular garbage into our container or throw the bikes in sideways, so they become a tangled pile.

This landfill emails us when the container is nearly full. We pickup once every two to three weeks and get 15 or so usable bikes per trip. The quality is generally lower.

For us, it is much more a matter of rummaging through what's there. We can often find good bikes in the pile. But, it is labor intensive.

One thing we can strongly suggest if you have this kind of arrangement-- ask to have the bike donations area/container next to the general metal recycling dumpster. When you get the many unsalvageable bikes, you can recycle them easily.

Hope this helps,

Greg
Long Island Bicycle Coop








On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 8:59 PM Abby Easterly via TheThinkTank <thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org> wrote:

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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Abby Easterly
QC Bike Collective
35 Elm Street, Manchester, NH 03101
603.493.1720 - shop phone
603-315-2656 - Abby phone
www.qcbike.org


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

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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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