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  • How to dispose of dead carbon parts?
  • Earl
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    Got a carbon seatpost on its way out. The alloy head has losts it teeth. Can you recycle carbon? or is it landfill?

    Stoner
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    You have to separate the bio-degradeable carbon weave from the synthetic resin. Use a potato peeler.

    leggyblonde
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    Try putting some emery cloth between the two worn faces. Has worked for me before, zero slippage for years!

    thisisnotaspoon
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    its not bio degradable, its just carbon

    Chuck it in the bin, it may get incinerated, otherwise its landfill.

    thepodge
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    Drop it in the plastics bin at your local recycling spot

    rootes1
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    welcome to the world of composites… v hard to recover – grp is a big problem – normally smashed up and landfilled..

    ooOOoo
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    There is only 1 recycling place for Carbon Fibre in the UK
    http://recycledcarbonfibre.com/

    I know Trek use them. I doubt any household waste ends up there.
    Maybe the bike industry should create a system to get parts and frames back to these guys.

    thisisnotaspoon
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    I wouldn't loose sleep over it, its 200g of carbon, even if every cyclist in the UK threw out all their carbon bits I bet we'd struggle to make more than double figures (in tonnes), and we don't throw out that much.

    bassspine
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    As far as I can tell, they dissolve the resin off and chop up the fibre, so I wouldn't actually count that as recycling, more reusing some of it.

    yesiamtom
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    hmm, id like a way of storing stems and on them handlebars from a wall. I was tihnking of getting an old straight handlebar and clamping them on.

    I dont imagine a seatpost would work otherwise i would take it for the price of postage and "recycle" it.

    BigJohn
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    Make a very small shoe out of it.

    That will reduce your carbon footprint.

    bassspine
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    Big John HAHAHA. Genius!

    toys19
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    There is work afoot to grind stuff like this up and use it in filler in other fibre reinforced polymers.. Some people have done it already.

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