‘Rebicycling’ Turning Trash Into Treasure
PRINCE GEORGE – Recycling bikes into jewellery and clocks, that’s Marianne Koops’ way of making her bike shop a little greener.
Koops started ‘Rebicycled Treasures’ after seeing the excessive amount of unusable parts laying around her bike shop. Some of the extra parts, in part, go to metal scrap and salvage, but the rest head to the landfill.
Koops has tried to change that by transforming parts like a bike’s cassettes into clocks.
She hopes other businesses will see new possibilities in their own materials, even if it takes a little extra work.