Bike Tube Recycling

I’m a little late on this, as it already started, but it isn’t over.

A typical bike shop will throw out a
few thousand inner tubes in the course of a year. All those tubes add up to
tons of waste when you think about all the bike shops in the Baltimore/DC area.
Performance Bike, however, is teaming up with Liberty Tire to sponsor the Bike
Tube Blow-Out over the next two weekends, which will take place at
Performance’s new store in Columbia, MD. Anyone who brings in their
flat or unused tubes, from August 13^th-15^th and 20^th-22^nd,
will receive a $5 in store credit, and can trade in up to 3 tubes for a total
of $15.

These “Blow-Outs” have been hugely popular in other cities, and the
hope is that bringing it to such a major cycling-heavy metropolitan area will
mean even more saved material from the city’s landfills.