{"id":248914,"date":"2024-04-16T18:29:18","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T18:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/this-bicycle-is-made-from-recycled-plastic-using-renewable-energy\/"},"modified":"2024-04-16T18:29:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T18:29:26","slug":"this-bicycle-is-made-from-recycled-plastic-using-renewable-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/this-bicycle-is-made-from-recycled-plastic-using-renewable-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"This Bicycle Is Made From Recycled Plastic Using Renewable Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News!<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Plastic. It\u2019s literally everywhere on our planet, and it\u2019s not going anywhere anytime soon. And in case you missed the memo, \u201cplastic recycling is not technically or economically viable at scale,\u201d and\u00a0is \u201cvirtually hopeless.\u201d However, perhaps by using recycled plastics on a small scale, such as for these bicycles by mtrl.bike, this material can play more of a part in the circular economy of the future.<\/p>\n<p>What began in 2014 as just an idea by Johannes Alderse Baas to make a bicycle from recycled plastic has since been developed into a prototype that will be put into small scale production, thanks to a partnership with igus motion plastics\u00ae. Formerly known as DutchFiets until 2022, mtrl.bike, along with igus:bike, is now behind the RCYL brand, which is taking pre-orders for these&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2024\/04\/16\/this-bicycle-is-made-from-recycled-plastic-using-renewable-energy\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read the full article originally published at cleantechnica.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Plastic. It\u2019s literally everywhere on our planet, and it\u2019s not going anywhere anytime soon. And in case you missed the memo, \u201cplastic recycling is not technically or economically viable at scale,\u201d and\u00a0is \u201cvirtually hopeless.\u201d However, perhaps by using recycled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":248915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>This Bicycle Is Made From Recycled Plastic Using Renewable Energy - Republic of Green News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2024\/04\/16\/this-bicycle-is-made-from-recycled-plastic-using-renewable-energy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"This Bicycle Is Made From Recycled Plastic Using Renewable Energy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. 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