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With 23 million bicycles in the UK, and another 2.75million new sold every year, vast numbers can end up as waste in landfill sites. Perth & Kinross Council, in partnership with the Bike Station Project, a charitable company, is introducing the initiative to divert unwanted cycles from landfill and make cycling available to everyone.

The Bike Station is now collecting unwanted or broken bicycles at four of the Council's Recycling Centres - Friarton in Perth, Kinross, Pitlochry and Aberfeldy. Bikes that are collected will be repaired, refurbished and given a three-month guarantee before being sold at an affordable price. With Tayside Police also donating their unclaimed lost property bicycles from the Perth and Kinross area, it is hoped that many bikes that otherwise would have just been thrown away will now go on to be used again.

Environment Convener, Councillor Alan Grant said:
"Together with the Bike Station, the aim is to make cycling, as a cheap, sustainable and healthy form of transport, available to everyone. The benefits of a Bicycle Recycling Project for Perth and Kinross are two fold; it allows bicycles to be low-cost and affordable for everyone, whilst reducing the amount of waste that the Council sends to landfill."

Besides selling recycled bicycles, the Bike Station also offers bicycle maintenance courses so that you can keep it in good working form for less too.