A Burmese bought ofo and oBike bicycles that were abandoned overseas and donated them to poor children. On June 20th, a batch of modified bike-sharing was sent to a rural school near Yangon. Local students no longer need to walk far to school every day. This is undoubtedly a blessing for those abandoned bike-sharing.
Two years ago, bike-sharing was the darling of capital, and the number of bike-sharing in the city was increasing day by day, and eventually it was surplus; A year ago, when the wind blew away, some entrepreneurs who were swimming naked faded, and there were fewer and fewer players in bike-sharing, leaving only abandoned bicycles and bicycle cemeteries. It is estimated that by 2020, at least 10 million bike-sharing vehicles will be scrapped, which will not only occupy public space and land resources, but also produce at least 160,000 tons of municipal waste. So, where have all those deserted bike-sharing gone?
donate
Non-profit organizations buy bicycles
Donate it to Burmese students after transformation.
According to foreign media reports, Mike, a foreign entrepreneur, founded a non-profit organization called LessWalk, bought 10,000 bicycles from enterprises in bike-sharing, and plans to donate them to students in Myanmar.
In rural Myanmar, it is very common for students to walk a long way to get to school. Some students walk from home to school for more than an hour every day. Many families can’t afford bicycles or motorcycles, and school buses are unheard of for these children.
LessWalk made a simple transformation on the bought bike-sharing, added a back seat to them, converted the QR code scanning lock into a common key lock, and then transported them to Myanmar. Most of these bicycles were purchased from liquidators, who controlled oBike’s closed business in Singapore and inherited ofo’s abandoned fleet, which made their purchase price cheaper than ordinary bicycles.
At the end of April, the first batch of 3,300 bicycles arrived in Myanmar, and on June 5, another 1,000 ofo bicycles were delivered to the warehouse in Yangon. Mike said that they bought a total of 4000 bicycles from ofo.
He said that the average price of bicycles is about S $20 (about RMB 100). Together with transportation, modification and distribution costs, the cost of each bicycle is about 35 US dollars (about RMB 240 yuan). He bought 5000 cars out of his own pocket, and the other half was sponsored by sponsors. Mike hopes to call on friends from all over the world to join his plan to "regenerate" hundreds of thousands of abandoned bicycles.
Ofo’s branch in the United States announced in mid-2018 that it would shrink its related business in the United States. A spokesman for ofo in the United States declared: "They will not be thrown into the garbage dump. We hope to leave these little yellow cars here and give them to people who need them." Ofo said that more than 40,000 small yellow cars it put into use will not be abandoned on the streets, nor will they become urban garbage and occupy public resources. At present, it has donated about 3,000 bicycles to local communities and charitable organizations in 10 evacuated cities. In the future, ofo will donate more cars in more cities.
After ofo withdrew from India, bicycles were recycled by Bounce, a shared scooter company. After ofo announced the closure of business in Israel and other Middle Eastern countries, it also donated bicycles to local charities.
retrieve
Sorting bicycles that have reached the scrapping cycle.
Ofo promotes recycling
In China, ofo claims that bike-sharing has a complete recycling process to ensure that obsolete vehicles can be effectively disposed of.
Not long ago, some media reported that thousands of ofo sharing bicycles cars were crushed into scrap iron in a demolition factory in Xuefu Section 2, Wuhou District, Chengdu, and then recycled and transported away by the scrap factory at the price of 15 yuan per car. The relevant personnel of the scrap factory said that there were about 3,000 small yellow cars at the scene.
The small yellow car with an ex-factory price of several hundred yuan was eventually sold as scrap iron, and many people expressed "distressed". In this regard, the relevant person in charge of ofo responded that the scrapping clean-up is under the supervision of the government, and the normal management behavior of enterprises on vehicles involves only a very small part of the amount of vehicles put into Chengdu, which has reached the retirement age.
Last year, ofo said that it had reached a strategic cooperation with Beijing Vanke, China Circular Economy Association and Beijing Urban Renewable Resources Service Center to promote the recycling of used bicycles, so as to recycle the bike-sharing that has reached the end-of-life cycle and realize the green closed-loop management of the whole life cycle from production, use to recycling.
transboundary
Mobike made furniture and runways.
Realize 100% recycling.
On Earth Day on April 22nd this year, mobike and YUUE Product Design Studio in Berlin jointly released a group of creative cross-border cooperation to turn bicycle parts into furniture products, such as recliners, vertical lights, coffee tables, desktop finishing racks, candlesticks, etc. All the raw materials of these furniture are from discarded parts in mobike, which shows the new achievements of mobike’s "life cycle" plan.
For example, the mobike classic front fork was transformed into a desktop finishing rack: the front fork has its own internal criss-crossing reinforcing ribs, which naturally divides the container into several parts. The connection between the added PC material and the front fork makes full use of the original screw holes, just like the mortise and tenon structure, and a desktop finishing rack with fashionable appearance and practical function was born.
"mobike will be scrapped one day after serving for thousands of kilometers. Although every mobike’s materials can be recycled through recycling, we hope that they can be revived through simple transformation, which is also a more environmentally friendly and energy-saving measure. " Qin Hao, a senior expert on sustainable development in mobike, said. In July 2018, mobike took the lead in putting forward and actively practicing the concept of life cycle environmental protection in the industry. In the whole process of design, procurement, production, delivery, operation and scrapping, the "3R principle" (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle) was implemented, and the used bicycles were 100% recycled, realizing energy conservation and environmental protection in the whole life cycle of mobike.
Not long ago, a plastic multifunctional playground made of waste tires from mobike was laid on the playground of Wanhua School in Yan ‘an. According to reports, the particles donated to the plastic site come from the waste tires recycled in mobike, all of which are solid polyurethane tires made of polyurethane materials specially developed by Dow Company. This is another use of recycling in bike-sharing.
According to the introduction of mobike, the maintenance records of each vehicle’s components are recorded on the intelligent life cycle management platform in mobike, which can clearly trace the service life of each component, and optimize the design and production of vehicles according to the maintenance records, so as to improve the service life of vehicles and reduce the resource consumption and carbon emissions caused by maintenance. Among them, smart locks, solar panels and wheelsets will be recycled and reused after passing the test. As of a year ago, mobike had recycled more than 300,000 tires in cooperation with manufacturers.
In addition, mobike cooperated with China Renewable Resources Development Co., Ltd. and Tianjin Xinneng Renewable Resources Co., Ltd. to provide mobike with professional services such as recycling, dismantling and harmless treatment after the end of bicycle life cycle.
transform
Hello, waste wheels become cat nests.
Recycling according to material differences
Not long ago, at the scene of a public welfare activity, the stray cat nest made by parents and children with bike-sharing’s used wheels was very eye-catching. The bottom of the nest formed by overlapping tires ensures a certain distance from the ground, which can not only prevent the nest from being soaked in rainy days, but also increase its own weight and make the nest not easy to topple; The nest is made of three wheels, leaving room for stray cats to move, and waterproof cloth is wrapped to effectively block strong winds and rain.
In fact, since last year, Harrow Bicycle has transformed some bicycle waste wheels into stray cat nests, and placed them in the places where stray cats often appear on campus, giving them a warm home in winter.
Hellobike said that it will sort and recycle bicycle parts according to their material differences. Metal materials such as the main frame are recycled to make metal ingots for recycling, and the plastic of the car body is granulated for secondary processing, and the parts that cannot be completely decomposed, such as tires and cushions, are treated scientifically and harmlessly.
Text/reporter Wen Wei Coordinator/Yu Meiying