On 11-May-08, at 12:19 PM, veganboyjosh@gmail.com wrote:
i know community cycles is not the only shop on this list that has
space issues, nor shortness of volunteer hours....i'm wondering if any shops out there have some kind of "we're all
filled up, we can't take any more bikes" policy.
(snip)
We've come close, but have always managed to stave that off somehow.
That said, we do not absorb police or campus bikes, or even advertise
in our City's "Take It Back" recycling program, because we would be
buried in bikes.
We do readily respond to any group that asks for free bikes, as long
as they take them as is and no work needs to be done by our
volunteers. We also donate bikes for shipment to Africa twice a
year. See:
http://www.re-cycles.ca/bfh2007.html
That helps get rid of bikes AND parts, especially knobby mtn. bike
tires.
we've gotten in touch with our local recycling yard, who pretty
much takes everything that can be recycled. i personally know that
they see several bikes per week in their dumpsters, but they don't
have any way to pull those out once they're in, once people dump
washing machines, fridges, etc, on top of them. i'd like to see a
seperate "bike dumpster" for people to drop them off, and we go and
reuse them.
Sounds like it would be good to try and talk the recycling yard into
creating a separate bike drop-off spot. That way you guys could get
at them, or just people dropping off other stuff could grab a bike
for themselves.
Mark