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Posted April 15, 2010
Green Options Buffalo has partnered with ECMC to hold a bicycle drive in an effort to collect used and damaged bicycles that will be recycled by volunteers and given back to the youth in the neighborhood.
The bicycle drive will take place on Friday April 16th from 7:30am – 2:30pm under the emergency exit ramp at ECMC located at 462 Grider Street in the City of Buffalo. Employees at ECMC and the community at large have been asked to bring in there unused or outgrown bicycles while staff from Green Options will be on site to collect them.
"This is a wonderful way to recycle, spring clean and give back to the community” stated Rita Hubbard-Robinson, Corporate Training Director for ECMC, “We want to encourage youth to be fit and have fun this summer, the bicycles will accomplish both goals for children in the Delavan Grider Community. I am very pleased that my co-workers from ECMC are participating in this worthwhile event."
Green Options Buffalo, through its programs and volunteer opportunities work to provide all ages the chance to lean basic mechanic and problem solving skills, learn how their actions can impact their health and the health of their communities and have a positive impact on the environment through reducing the amount of used bicycles entering the waste stream, curtailing car emissions and circulating hundreds of bicycles back into the community.
“Our mission”, stated Justin Booth, Executive Director of Green Options Buffalo, “is to provide healthy, environmentally sustainable, community friendly transportation options. We continue to strive to encourage more people to embrace bicycling as a resource within our community, making it safe and accessible to enhance Buffalo’s quality of life and to attract others here to live, work and play.
