Recycle Your Bicycle Returns To Hidden Oaks Preserve

BOLINGBROOK, IL — The Forest Preserve District of Will County will host its annual spring Recycle Your Bicycle program starting April 12, through April 27 at three locations throughout the county, including in Bolingbrook.

Hidden Oaks Preserve will serve as a collection site, according to the preserve. The bike drop is located on the southwest side of the parking lot on a flat, accessible surface.

The other two collection sites are McKinley Woods – Kerry Sheridan Grove, in Channahon; and Monee Reservoir in Monee Township.

Bikes and bike parts can be in any condition, from brand new to beyond repair, the preserve said.

All collected bikes and bike parts will be donated to Chicago-based Working Bikes, an organization that refurbishes and redistributes bikes locally and globally to those in need of an affordable and sustainable mode of transportation for work, school, community services, recreation and more.

The Forest Preserve's Recycle Your Bicycle program began in 2011. But no matter how many years the program has been offered, more bikes always come, Jessica Prince, facility supervisor at Monee Reservoir, said.

"The bikes still show up," she said in a release. "We do a spring and a fall collection and we still get enough numbers for both after all these years to justify doing it. So, it's still a very strong program."

People like knowing their old bikes are going to a good cause, Prince added.

"They'd rather do this than throw them into a landfill."