November 2008
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
8h 32m
English

Photograph by Peter Smith
A company that hauls away your trash — on bikes.
Pedal People is an 11-person cooperative bicycle business in Northampton, Mass., that hauls furniture, yard waste, and garbage — all year round. In June 2007, Pedal People signed a contract with the City of Northampton to pick up its 70 trash barrels in downtown, one of the only bicycle-powered businesses in the United States picking up municipal trash.
I spoke with Pedal People’s founders, Alex Jarrett and Ruthy Woodring, from their home in Florence.
Peter Smith: When did you start hauling with bikes?
Ruthy Woodring: I started in Chicago when ...