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On your bike for Factory seconds

Waterloo’s Factory Community Centre is taking sustainable living to the next level, giving old and ruined bicycles a second chance in their Cycle Re-Cycle Workshop reports Angus Thompson in City news on 27 August 2009.

Since relaunching the program at the Centre in January membership has boomed by 500 per cent, with up to 70 people coming together each Monday night to repair used bikes or build them from scratch using donated parts.
The resurrected vehicles can then be donated back into the community or sold for a nominal price.

Originally run from Newtown as the Nunnery Bike Group, the Cycle Re-Cycle Workshop is run by a group of volunteer bicycle enthusiasts who wish to promote cycling as a means of transport by providing easy and affordable access to bicycles.

As well as bikes, volunteers recycle furniture and household items to disadvantaged groups, such as people who are unemployed, single parents, elderly, disabled, and low income-earners throughout the Redfern-Waterloo area.
Established by local residents in 1995, The Waterloo Recycling Workshop (WRW) is a not-for-profit volunteer group supported and managed by the Factory Community Centre.

Source: www.altmedia.net.au/on-your-bike-for-factory-seconds/10555