Rebycle the world
Unwanted old bike parts find new life as picture frames, DVD racks, keyrings and much more...
In today’s climate of being encouraged to reduce our carbon footprint and damage to the environment, recycling is one way towards decreasing our waste. By choosing to cycle we’re already doing a bit towards reducing our carbon footprint (if we gloss over the tendency for us to put bikes in cars and planes to ride in interesting places...), and for the particularly green-minded cyclist comes Rebycle.
Rebycle offers unique gift and promotional items made from, alas, recycled bicycle parts. Whether you’re looking for a great gift idea for a bike-mad friend or relation, or just looking for the perfect picture frame to display your event photos, Rebycle will have something to fit the bill perfectly.
Top of the list of their best seller items is the recycled bike chain bottle opener. At £7.99 it’s fun and friendly without breaking the bank. Other, equally interesting products, are the candle holders made out of freewheels and cogs, chain keyrings, but our pick has to be the classy CD/DVD rack, made from old rims and chain rings.
Following the collection of tons of discarded bicycle parts every year from bike shops and bike owners nationally, the bike parts are cleaned using very mild detergents. They are sorted into more categories than you can possibly imagine, and crafted into the cool products you see on their website.
Visit www.rebycle.co.uk to see the full range.
"Following the collection of tons of discarded bicycle parts every year from bike shops and bike owners nationally" Wouldn't it make far more sense to take this stuff to bike recycling schemes, or make bikes for the third world from these discarded parts, or even repair these bits and return them to use? From the website: "Every year, bicycle assemblers in the Far East waste tons of chain that is scrapped when they do not need the entire piece for the specific bike being assembled. Collection of this scrap is now operational and it is being used in some of our smaller products, like bottle openers and bracelets. A major step forward." Wouldn't it make more sense environmentally to collect this scrap chain and use it to make something useful - like, y'know, bike chains? Or is it just me that thinks that saying it's eco-conscious to buy a bike chain bracelet is a bit daft? Si M
Posted: 04/02/2008 13:45
Re-use is always a better option than recycling But yeah it would be better to re-use or re-furbish as bike parts first, and also to get the scrap from the UK! Perhaps we should all send them our used bits?
Posted: 04/02/2008 14:10
Wouldn't it make more sense environmentally to collect this scrap chain and use it to make something useful - like, y'know, bike chains? I did once manage to make a whole chain from all the half-dozen links you have left over when you fit a new one  Yes, better (depending on how you define "better") things could be done with this stuff, but it beats landfill...
Posted: 04/02/2008 14:24
it beats landfill...
I guess I'm saying I'd have rather seen these guys create a company that creates bike chains saved from landfill, rather than bracelets. Bit less "funky" though. Si M
Posted: 04/02/2008 14:36
I knew what you were saying, because you said it I'm just saying that it's better than nowt, and if it draws attention to needless waste within the bike industry, then that's a good thing.
Posted: 04/02/2008 15:05
Kris, got a pic, I might be keen as a town bike! £3.50? I have a keyring exactly like that made of an old chain of mine. Nice idea, but I can't really see anyone who rides a lot (and therefore has a lot of old kit of their own) stumping up for it!
Posted: 04/02/2008 19:15
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