Our friend Jim Shirk forwarded us an article from Daily Kos…a company in Northampton, Massachusetts that hauls trash for the municipality using pedal power. Take a look at the original article by clicking here.
(photo by Alex Jarrett…borrowed from Pedal People)
Now THIS is the kind of business that should be receiving Federal stimulus money — while this type of setup wouldn’t work in a lot of places, especially in a very hilly area, there are myriad applications to be tapped, from food and product delivery to trash-hauling, urban cleanup, peoplemoving (think pedicabs or the like) and plenty others.
Bravo, Pedal People!!!
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Cool. Thankfully, our little town has a bike powered recycling program, Goshen Re-Cycles, a part of the Chain Reaction Bicycle Project. We’ve been biking along for a few years now.
http://crbp.org/
That’s awesome! Yeah, it would be tough in some parts of Flagstaff, but maybe it could be a tandem bike for those hilly neighborhoods.