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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 16
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 16

by Mark Frauenfelder
November 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
192 pages
8h 32m
English
Make: Community
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Photograph by Peter Smith

Junk Pedalers

A company that hauls away your trash — on bikes.

By Peter Smith

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 ...

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