Two for the price of one!

Yes it’s Recycle Week but did you know its Bike Week too? Interestingly the 2 topics are not unrelated.

Yes national Bike Week is a celebration of all things bike related with a call for you to get on your bike, get your family and mates on their bikes and get out there and enjoy cycling.   It is also an opportunity for you to recycle or re-use an old bike that hasn’t seen the light of day since the Christmas you got it or that time of life when you used to give your mates ‘backies’ to the local shop!

Last Sunday I was in Trafford at the Sale Lions summer fair and bike festival, promoting the Recycle for Greater Manchester – Recycle your Bike campaign which aims to encourage people to donate their unwanted bikes to local projects.  These community projects will restore and refurbish bikes which are then sold on cheaply, given away to people in need or used to teach children and adults how to ride. Even bikes that are past their best will have a use as spare parts or even art! So if you have an old bike rusting in your shed and you want to get rid, simply log on here, put in your postcode to find a local project to take your bike.

Or look out for me on the Recycle your Bike stall promoting bike re-use and giving away free water bottles and lanyards, I will be at Exchange Square in Manchester on the 24th June, as part of Manchester’s Bike Friday event. Along with Manchester’ssustainable transport team we will be offering information and advice between 8am-10.30am. Come along and find out more!

Team Green Britain co-ordinate national bike week events and you can find out what is happening near you by logging on to their bike week website.

by Phillippa Superville Blackford – Community Liason Ofiicer, GMWDA