Brainwave Bikes: 2023 Finalist – Waste and recycling solutions
Brainwave Bikes is a finalist for a Community Champion award in the Premier's Sustainability Awards 2023 – Waste and recycling solutions category. Brainwave Bikes is Victoria's largest recycler and retailer of quality, affordable, and tested used bikes. It is reducing the estimated half of used bikes that end up in landfill. It also provides work experience and training as mechanics at 99 Bikes stores for unemployed young people living with disabilities, helping them to transition to mainstream employment with WISE Employment.
Brainwave Bikes donates bikes to refugee and low-income families via Chain Reaction and gift-a-bike donors, and sells used bikes online, in-store, and at pop-ups to students and families.
In the past year, Brainwave Bikes recycled or sold more than 1,000 (14,000 kgs) of used bikes, transitioned 9 unemployed young people into mainstream employment, and one into secondary education.
