Rcyl – a Recycled Plastic Urban Bike

As a quick reminder, metals can be recycled indefinitely. Plastic cannot, you always have to include some virgin material.

"A regular e-bike battery can take several hours to charge completely, but the H2’s hydrogen cylinder requires just six minutes at a hydrogen filling station." Of course the company wanted to run the filling stations.

This is just a dumb token gesture to get people to buy a product that doesn't need to exist. This solves a problem nobody has.

Recycling plastic is just greenwashing to get more people to use more plastic.

Throw plastic in the trash where it belongs. That's where it's gonna wind up anyway. At least this way you know where it's going instead of thinking it's going off to be magically recycled into magic pixie dust that saves the planet.

Plasticised PVC, which is where phthalates are used, is not suitable for structural applications like this.

Edit: care to refute? Or do you just want to parrot ignorant talking points without thought.

Cleveland, OH: Ohio City Bike Co-op https://ohio-city-bicycle-co-op.shoplightspeed.com/

Boston, MA: Bikes Not Bombs https://bikesnotbombs.org/

Somerville, MA: Somerville Bike Kitchen https://somervillebikekitchen.org/

Burlington VT: Old Spokes Home https://oldspokeshome.com

And many, many more.

There are practical ways to use less plastic (or any material really):

* Don't sell disposable shit

* Don't sell fragile shit that breaks quickly in the first place

* This often means more things out of metal, or at least thicker plastic. It may mean you need to use a screw to close the case rather than welding it shut or using plastic tabs that snap

* Use materials and designs can can be repaired using standard parts and materials

* Provide spares for less than the cost of replacing the whole damn thing

* And on and on

If your aim is to sequestrate existing plastic to keep it out of the environment, burn it, landfill it or maybe make it into bulk building materials and hide safely it in a non-wearing building (i.e. not a road surface) for 100 years. Putting it back out into the world in a less recyclable form (a common example: cheap and shit fleece jackets proudly made from 50 bottles or whatever - now that's microplastic fibres and definitely will not be recycled ever again) just defers it a couple of years. Especially if the thing you made from plastic didn't even need to be plastic.