A member of the public recovered the Mark 3 Raleigh Chopper at a household waste recycling centre, which is run by waste and management company, FCC Environment.
The bike was sent to be repaired and conditioned at HMP Rochester where FCC Environment has an arrangement with the prison which sees offenders learn new skills in the company’s reuse shop, dubbed ‘Re-Love a Bike’.
The refurbished bike was taken to the national Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee (LARAC) Conference in Nottingham in October and auctioned off for the BBC’s Children In Need appeal for £370.
Winner of the bike, Chris Jones, was presented with the bike at a special event on Friday 13 November – Children In Need day 2015.
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Commenting on his win Mr Jones said that the bid was a way of showing support for Staffordshire county council’s new ‘Adopt an Appliance campaign’, which hopes to increase recycling rates by encouraging people to donate their old unused, unwanted and broken electrical goods to their local Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC).
Under the scheme items bought to any of the county’s 14 HWRCs that can be reused, are sent to the Katharine house hospice re-used shop at the Cannock HWRC, where they are tested and then sold on to the public.
Recovered items available in the re-use shop include stereos, televisions, DVD players, electric fires and kitchen equipment. Articles that are not suitable for reuse are sent to be recycled.
The project is funded by the Distributor Takeback Scheme (DTS) as part of the government’s drive to increase recycling rates across the country.
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