Sunday, January 10, 2010

pedal-powered waste management!

Today Daily Kos featured an interview with the founders of Pedal People, a "worker-owned human-powered delivery and hauling service for the Northampton, Massachusetts area."  Pedal People won a contract to haul -- by bicycle! -- trash from downtown Northampton.

Both the interview and their site are worth checking out, especially their photo gallery, full of bike trailers hauling full loads of garbage and recyclables... like this seasonally appropriate picture:


(photo by Robin Barber for Pedal People

Happy New Year from The Bike Project!

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for posting, Kelly! Would we be able to do something similar in C-U? It seems like we'd meet most of the necessary criteria (flat topography, good population density, transfer station in town - I think, no municipal trash collection - at least in Champaign). Let's talk about it at Beer Summit this week.

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