Worn chains & cassettes HOW do you recycle?

bornagainbiker

Just been thinking about this do most of you drop the bits off at the local tip/recycle centre?

or

Save up a good load or club together with some mates and get some cash from a scrap metal merchant?

crankycrank

I just save up all my scrap metal and drop it off at the recycler. Only need to make 1 trip about every 2 years. The cash is hardly worth it, mostly just trying prevent waste.

snakehips

I drop small bits of metal in to the bin at my local supermarket. I know it says it is for food containers but I reckon that steel is steel , whether it comes in the shape of a baked bean tin or e.g. an old bicycle chain.

Snake

My Library

Pross

Mine just sit in a box in the shed until they seem to corrode or something as I can't recall throwing any away but there are none there any more! :?

Flasheart

I take mine into work as we have a scrap metal bin in the depot. It gets filled up then taken away for recycling. I R Green

freehub

If you wanted to bin a carbon frame, what bin would it go in? General waste?

crankycrank

freehub wrote:

If you wanted to bin a carbon frame, what bin would it go in? General waste?

Try contacting the mfr. of the frame. They may be interested in having a look at it for quality control purposes. Other than that I have no idea.

bagpusscp

Plastic recycling skip. That should raise a few hackles..
Me. I ride scaffolding poles. 8)

richk

Mine go in the recycling crate with the 'domestic' recycling.

mostly harmless

I've got a bucket in the basement for assored scrap metal. It get emptied periodically when I'm going to the tip with other stuff.

Hibbs

ebay under "as new".

simonaspinall

To be used as bizarre decor in Cycling Passion calenders. I try to deliver them personally but the restraining order is a bit of a pain.

bagpusscp

Love it

blu3cat

without the lock ring, they make an amusing .if not grimy stacking game for children.

pneumatic

My worn out rear block makes a very fine paperweight on my desk and reminds me of happy continental tours.

It also seems to grin at me sometimes as if to say "stop wasting your life sitting at your desk and go out for a ride!"

bails87

I send my worn out cassettes to Wiggle, to be fitted to Focus Culebros with dodgy paint.

Pross

bails87 wrote:

I send my worn out cassettes to Wiggle, to be fitted to Focus Culebros with dodgy paint.

Soreknees

bails87 wrote:

I send my worn out cassettes to Wiggle, to be fitted to Focus Culebros with dodgy paint.

Wondered how long it'd be before someone brought that up!
Think that'll get a nomination for "Most amusing thread of the year" at the annual Bike Radar awards.

Tom Butcher

I take mine down the local scrap merchants - think his name is D Hinde - no idea what he does with it after presume it gets recycled.

bagpusscp

bails87 wrote:

I send my worn out cassettes to Wiggle, to be fitted to Focus Culebros with dodgy paint.

Can some one pick me up off the floor.I am choking on a Haribo

rml380z

Sendall your bits to these guys; http://www.rebycle.co.uk/

beverick

snakehips wrote:

I drop small bits of metal in to the bin at my local supermarket. I know it says it is for food containers but I reckon that steel is steel , whether it comes in the shape of a baked bean tin or e.g. an old bicycle chain.

Snake

My Library

Sorry, people actually throw bits away. i still have the a 1940's Sun tourer in its component parts in the garage.

Bob