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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?
You have to separate the bio-degradeable carbon weave from the synthetic resin. Use a potato peeler.
Try putting some emery cloth between the two worn faces. Has worked for me before, zero slippage for years!
its not bio degradable, its just carbon
Chuck it in the bin, it may get incinerated, otherwise its landfill.
Drop it in the plastics bin at your local recycling spot
welcome to the world of composites... v hard to recover - grp is a big problem - normally smashed up and landfilled..
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.
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.
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.
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.
Make a very small shoe out of it.
That will reduce your carbon footprint.
Big John HAHAHA. Genius!
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.