What To Do with Old Scooters in Gateshead

Over the summer of 2024 we hosted a fantastic scooter project which involved taking old scooters and giving them a new life.

We no longer accept donations of scooters but you can contact Recyke Y'Bike to see if they will take your old scooter. Alternatively you can take your scooters to Campground HWRC in Gateshead.

Give Your Old Scooter a New Life

150 Old Scooters Given New Life

150 safety-checked and refurbished scooters will go out to Gateshead schools next week, helping kids get active on the school run.

Over the past few weeks, Lou Millington, (funded by Sustrans) project officer for Gateshead Council's School Streets initiative & team of Sustrans North staff and volunteers have been doing some incredible work in sorting and repairing over 150 scooters out in our Green Heart Yarden. Thanks for all your amazing efforts, guys! We also have a lot of fantastic organisations to thank for their support.

Micro Scooters UK donated lots of old scooters and parts which have been invaluable.

A big thank you also to the SUEZ UK and Groundwork teams at Campground HWRC who saved up lots of scooters and passed them on too.

Hannah (Suez, middle left) and Laura (Groundwork, right) are pictured here with Andy (Green Heart, left) and Lou (Sustrans/Gateshead Council, middle right).

And not to forget all the scooters you’ve all been bringing in too - thank you!

As we are now no longer accepting scooters, we recommend that you get in touch with Recyke y'Bike, or take your scooters to Campground Recycling Centre who are planning to continue saving them for recycling.

Why Your Old Scooter Matters

Here at Green Heart Collective, we are passionate about making Gateshead a better place.

Our primary focus is keeping waste out of landfill/incineration and that is because we want this to be healthy, happy place to be.

As long time supporters of active travel through great organisations like Slow Ways and Sustrans, we were therefore super excited to work on this summer project to get kids more active in Gateshead, turning scooters destined for being scrapped into some little ones' pride and joy.

Even better, we teamed up with with Micro Scooters - the UK's leading online scooter retailer.

They provided the project with some refurbished scooters and loads of parts for the scooters Lou fixed up.

This is a great example of a council (Gateshead), a charity (Sustrans), a social enterprise (Green Heart) and a B-Corp/company all coming together to make a real impact (Micro Scooters UK).

If you want to dig deeper, the situation for active travel in the UK is pretty sad. The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) recently concluded that underfunding of active travel across England has left many people reluctant to walk or cycle (or use a scooter!).

The study found that just 2% of the Government’s transport budget is spent on active travel infrastructure.

Maya Singer Hobbs, the lead author of the IPPR report said "UK Government policy has locked in car dependency".

Declan Wiseman

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Can I get involved in anyway iam a friend of Susan Hinton I like to work with my hands and help charities

Gavin Weatherspoon July 06, 2024

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