Sustainability

• Recycling and reusing bikes and parts reduces increases the access of affordable parts for those who need them
• Recycling and reusing bikes and parts
• On-going use of a bicycle has virtually NO carbon footprint.
• Bicycling reduces the demand for new roads and paving the earth with asphalt and concrete.
• Bicycling reduces the demand for parking lots and paving the earth.
• Bicycling reduces energy consumption (see below).
• Bicycling reduces air pollution -- bicyclist emit few poisonous gases. A four mile bicycle trip keeps about 15 pounds of pollutants out of the air we breathe.
• Bicycling reduces water pollution -- bikes don't drip brake fluid, anti-freeze, transmission fluid, toxic dust, etc.
• Bicycling reduces noise pollution -- even without a muffler bikes are quiet, creating a quieter community.
• Bicycling reduces road wear -- even if cyclist feel like they have the weight of the world on their shoulders.
• Bicycling reduces deforestation for planting of rubber plantations and bio-fuel crops, because bicycles use very little rubber and fuel/lubricants