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I’ve started a box of steel bits to recycle that my kids test with a magnet for me- sometimes means disassembling old components that are no use. The scrap guy outside our local tip will take a full box.
I know aluminium can be recycled but does that extend to bike parts?
Does anyone remember the Isla bike scheme where you leased a kids bike and swapped for next size, sending the old bike back for refurb? That seemed sensible but not sure it’s still a thing
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Nice question.
Although bikes are a very green mode of transport the increasing built in obsolescence of products within the industry is quite disheartening.
At the most basic level stuff from a bike could be taken to a scrap metal merchant, then there are cycling charities that take any old bits to try and get old knackered bikes rideable again.
Better Health Bikes in Haggerston is one and I think there is another similar set up somewhere else in Hackney.