Pedals for Progress, in its continuing effort to recycle bicycles properly, will offer two Princeton-area used bike collections on the morning of Saturday, June 17.
Anyone with an adult or child’s bicycle in repairable condition can hand over the bike, along with a $10 donation. The donated bikes will be shipped to areas of the world where bicycles are the primary mode of transportation for many people.
Bikes may be dropped off from 9 a.m. to noon, rain or shine, at the Educational Testing Service campus at Rosedale and Carter Roads in Lawrence and the West Windsor Community Farmers’ Market on Vaughn Drive off Alexander Road in the parking lot of the Princeton Junction train station.
The Lawrence Hopewell Trail organization is sponsoring the collection at ETS, and the West Windsor Bicycle and Pedestrian Alliance is sponsoring the collection at the farmers’ market. Their volunteers will help donors unload bicycles and prepare them for shipping.
Pedals for Progress cannot accept "bikes for parts" or disassembled bikes. It costs $28 to collect, process, ship, rebuild and distribute each bicycle, according to the organization, which is why a minimum $10 donation toward shipping costs is requested. All cash and material donations are fully tax-deductible and a receipt will be available at the collection site. The organization also accepts working portable sewing machines.
To volunteer or for more information, call Betty Wolfe of the Lawrence Hopewell Trail about the ETS donation site at (609) 734-5254 or Susan Conlon at (609) 936-1916 or Ken Carlson at (609) 275-6355 of the West Windsor Bicycle & Pedestrian Alliance, about the farmers’ market site. Information is also at www.lhtrail.org or www.princetonol.com/groups/wwbpa/.
Pedals for Progress collects over 11,000 bicycles annually and has shipped more than 95,000 bicycles to developing countries in Latin American, Africa and the Pacific Islands. Partner agencies in these countries train community members to recondition the bikes and distribute them at low cost to poor working adults.
More information about Pedals for Progress is available at www.p4p.org/.
