Bike Waste

Waste

For literacy at school, we are looking into different types of waste. So I chose to look into bike waste as I love biking and wanted to see what happens to the bikes when they break or get old.

Looking at photos from the bike yards in Bejing, we are not reusing enough of the parts of the bikes that are claimed to be broken but most are still in average condition and could be restored and repaired to go back up for sale. The bike seats can be sewn back together and the mud-guards can be refurbished to go back up for sale. The cogs and the chain can get soaked in oil and will work perfectly. All we need to do is take off the parts that we could use and put the part that we can't use in the dump.

So in conclusion, if all of the bike manufacturers could reuse old and abandoned bikes to turn them into delivery bikes for pizza companies or road bikes for cheap and that would reduce bike waste in Bejing and China.

Here is a photo of the bike dump