Around 70,000 people attended the Burning Man Festival this
year in the Black Rock Desert of northwest Nevada. When they all went home they
left behind a lot of trash, including 5,000 bicycles. The bikes, destined to be
scrapped, became the subject of a viral Instagram photo. So lots of people saw
it, right? A few of those people did a bit more than say, “That’s wierd,” and
move to the next picture. Matthew
Rockwell made a connection between thousands of abandoned bikes in Nevada and
thousands of destroyed cars in the wake of Hurricane Irma. He rented a truck
and a storage unit and started recovering bicycles to send to Houston. "Lots of people who lost a vehicle can't
get to work, can't afford a new car,” says Carter Stern, who is finding new
owners for the bikes. “Long after the TV cameras have left Houston there will be
a need for transportation options.”
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