Council’s Waste and Recycling Centre is now collecting pre-loved bikes and donating them to Brainwave Bikes, who will refurbish and rehome them.

Brainwave Bikes is a not-for-profit retailer of second-hand bikes. 

All proceeds go towards donating pre-loved bicycles to families in need and to Brainwave Australia, a charity that supports families and children with brain illnesses and injuries.

Whitehorse residents can drop their bikes off to Council’s Recycling and Waste Centre or to 99 Bikes on Whitehorse Road in Nunawading to be donated.

Cleanaway, Council’s hard waste provider, has also been recovering bikes from hard waste collections that are in good condition and donating them to Brainwave Bikes. 

In August, Cleanaway donated 37 bikes that were recovered from hard waste collections in Whitehorse.

Resource recovery and promoting a circular economy are very important to the Whitehorse community. This new initiative gives a second life to bikes and contributes to a good cause. 

Any bikes that are not in adequate condition to be renewed are recycled as scrap metal.

Read more information about Brainwave Bikes.