Ribbon is cut on Coventry Bike Bank

COVENTRY — Right off of the Coventry Greenway, located inside a repurposed shipping container at the town’s transfer station, the Coventry Bike Bank is officially open for business.

Similar to the town’s furniture bank, which donates gently-used furniture that would otherwise be discarded, the bike bank takes like-new bicycles destined for the landfill and instead gives them to Coventry residents who want them.

“We always wanted to build on the furniture bank idea,” Melissa Soares, special duties clerk at the Coventry Department of Public Works, said Wednesday morning during a small grand opening celebration.

Opened at the Coventry Transfer Station in 2019, the furniture bank has certainly proven its worth. In the span of just one year, the program diverted 6,600 pounds from the solid waste stream, which in turn has saved taxpayers' money.

Read the full article from the Kent County Daily Times.