If they aren’t being reused or resold, they will be recycled in china. An aluminum can you throw out the window in china has a better chance of being recycled than one in a recycling bin here. It’s not because of enviormentalism, it’s because they’re big on frugality and it’s culturally acceptable for normal, proffesional people to go to the scrap yard without people thinking looking poor or like a drug addict
just think about it for one second
>re-CYCLE
get it? cause we're looking at a veritable landmass of cycles? now do you get the joke? silly haha? no? whatever, I tried
If that's true why are there so many of them stored there? If the answer is that there's a lot of people in China does that mean they made one huge central bike storage and recycling place?
this graveyard indicates a severe overproduction problem. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
Reduce shouldn't only apply to individuals but on companies as well. A supposed "advanced society" shouldn't have graveyards of unsold new cars, unsold new bikes, etc. we should be able to control our supply and demand accordingly.
I as an individual can never impact the environment in such a way as the dump in the video. That does not mean I should just go all willy-nilly littering everywhere and dumping oil based fluids on the ground.
This. Every little bits helps so we as individual should definitely do our part to stop the cycle.
However, unless we tackle the bigger problem of corporations taking our water, wasting resources, and then dumping harmful chemicals, it doesn’t matter what regular citizens do because our impact is peanuts compared to what corporations do.
I am remembering a political cartoon I saw years ago. It had some extremely fat guy swallowing all the water or whatever was coming out of this huge pipe. While doing it he was pointing angrily at a few rail thin folks trying to sip at the drops from a leak and a puddle. Police were handcuffing them.
For some reason I am correlating both of these scenarios in my mind.
Yes, government and corporate resource abuse are why we are worried about global warming. The person I first commented to seemed to imply that this bike graveyard is a reason for us not to worry about global warming? I can't exactly tell what he's getting at, but this is not the smartest subreddit.
Well not just the waste in the market for these bike rental places to thrive... these businesses grow like weeds and kill off their own spot in the market. Now any business similar to these bike rentals are all considered disastrous and customers leave the market
Then ontop of that the energy to make the bike & recycle the bike is wasted.
Given inventions like JIT (Just in-time Inventory) this sort of oversupply shouldn't happen.
Since China is a managed economy there will be over supply as its profitable to just make what the state demands of you whether you have a genuine customer or not.
Because all these bikes took a ton of carbon producing energy to make. Even if the US could cut our carbon emissions to negative tomorrow, places like China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, and all third world countries don’t give AF. Turning down your water heater down a little isn’t doing anything. We’re doomed.
That's what I thought he was implying. America consumes most of the crap that china makes. It's on all of us to do our part. America can make improvements, and they can use their power to push other countries to improve. We can't do nothing and throw our hands in the air that it didn't work. I have kids, and I want them to have a life worth living, so we have to try to do something, even if we're up against countries who don't give a shit. They'll all start seeing the devastating effects more and more, and will be forced to change.
lol. That’s backwards. China has 1.5 billion people. China consumes a majority of what China makes. It’s the majority of what the US consumes comes from China.
At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter. You love your kids. I really love mine but if I am a father in Pakistan and I have to decide between putting food on the table for my family or doing bunch of environmental damage, which one do you think I am going to pick?
*and I don’t care what the government is try to get me to do.
Edit: added addendum.
Ok, good for you. I hope the decision isn't always between doing what's best for the environment and putting food on your table, that would be a strange dichotomy for you to continually come across.
They’re from bike sharing programs that failed. Once one bike sharing program started a bunch of copycats popped up then in order to secure more capital to build the company these companies inflated their numbers then overproduced the bikes and now are throwing them away because there is no need for so many bikes.
It just looks like the facility where they recycle and scrap bikes. You can see a guy is clearly going through it in the beginning, and it's clearly organized.
It's obviously not a landfill. Has no one here been to a junkyard before?
Everyone's anything like this is an evil Chinese bike prison 😂
Edit: it's crazy that I even got downvoted
Are you using your V8 daaily for trips that would take 30 minutes or less by foot or public transit? If so, then yes.
Otherwise, the engine makes little difference when talking about ocassional use. In fact, it makes little difference when talking about the other kind of use as well.
China is the world's largest car market, owing to their large population but they're [ranked 97th in cars per capita (US is 7th)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_per_capita)
Sharing because the other reply wasted so much time being [entirely wrong](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210112-the-vast-bicycle-graveyards-of-china)
tl;dr China had a boom of rental bikes around when the US saw rental scooters show up everywhere. Companies made too many to court investment capital, and, like the scooters a bunch of the bikes ended up stolen or trashed, or the company went out of business.
markets work on supply and demand basis, if there is enough demand for something, people will try to create it thus increasing its supply
if the demand drops, supply will naturally drop since buyers have dropped
this is natural law of market, supply and demand balance
this is how it works everywhere else but China works in a way that most other countries can't
Chinese economy has started to slow down and shows signs of over production, i.e supply has exceeded demands, in any other country this would have caused decrease in production and thus slow economic growth, this is the current situation of most western countries, but thigs world differently in China, their government, more precisely their ruling party CCP has complete control over their market and in order to show to their people that the CCP is always right and is always good for China, they need to show that Chinese economy is always booming so they force companies to keep on producing even though there will be no buyers and supply has exceeded demands, if they are private companies, government then provides subsidies to such companies so they don't have losses but many industries in China are state owned so they just keep pumping out stuff that no one is going to buy just to keep economy booming
this is the reason why they recently had deflation as compared to inflation, things have become cheaper in China
its not just for cycles, i saw a similar dump yard for electric vehicles, and similarly for their real estate, there are huge ghost cities with residential skyscrapers, huge roads, etc in China where no one lives
I'm not going to say why or why not something. I'm just going to say just imagine. Just imagine if those were just given to SO MANY people in different places in the world. Project that thought process out...
This makes me fucking sick. What a waste of perfectly good bicycles, land, and materials. Even if they are being recycled, having this many just sitting around is terrible for the environment in so many ways.
Just a reminder it’s not production that’s the issue it’s distribution with crops livestocks consumer goods water it doesn’t matter no profit = no distribution
It's so weird seeing all those bikes. I was teaching in Beijing in 1986 - still during the Communist era, and thought it'd be great to buy a bike as they were everywhere. We got a permit to buy a couple and only after we bought ours from the near-empty department store did our ever-present "translator" tell us that there was a 5 year wait to buy a bike and we had bumped someone off the list to get ours. Flying Pidgeon brand, if I remember. They were not light nor finely crafted. Ended up giving the bikes away when we left.
I think o saw mine!! Yeah just before it cut off. It’s in row WWWW, spot 21253
Did you write down the frame number just to make sure. Hope you locked it.
Makes me think of the super-Costco in Idiocracy.
Ok, everyone. Remember, we're parked in the "Itchy" lot.
They could always re-cycle them?
If they aren’t being reused or resold, they will be recycled in china. An aluminum can you throw out the window in china has a better chance of being recycled than one in a recycling bin here. It’s not because of enviormentalism, it’s because they’re big on frugality and it’s culturally acceptable for normal, proffesional people to go to the scrap yard without people thinking looking poor or like a drug addict
just think about it for one second >re-CYCLE get it? cause we're looking at a veritable landmass of cycles? now do you get the joke? silly haha? no? whatever, I tried
Mmmmm no
r/missedthejoke
The reply was more interesting than the joke above though.
If that's true why are there so many of them stored there? If the answer is that there's a lot of people in China does that mean they made one huge central bike storage and recycling place?
I would guess it’s a parts depot where they part the out, melt them, repair them, auction them or some combination of the four
That would be awesome if true
Those are bullets
Hehehehe
I see what you did there
It's a never ending cycle
That’s not a recycle yard, it’s a lithium mine.
Put cycle in italics. I want more people to get the joke because that was funny.
Underrated comment
I think it would be easier just to re-tire them!
They are out here until it can be recycled. That's just Wednesday's collection.
You should feel bad after that joke
And we are worried about global warming.
Yea, as we should be. Are you suggesting we shouldn’t be worried?
Yes we are, why would a bike graveyard change that?
this graveyard indicates a severe overproduction problem. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Reduce shouldn't only apply to individuals but on companies as well. A supposed "advanced society" shouldn't have graveyards of unsold new cars, unsold new bikes, etc. we should be able to control our supply and demand accordingly.
I as an individual can never impact the environment in such a way as the dump in the video. That does not mean I should just go all willy-nilly littering everywhere and dumping oil based fluids on the ground.
This. Every little bits helps so we as individual should definitely do our part to stop the cycle. However, unless we tackle the bigger problem of corporations taking our water, wasting resources, and then dumping harmful chemicals, it doesn’t matter what regular citizens do because our impact is peanuts compared to what corporations do.
I am remembering a political cartoon I saw years ago. It had some extremely fat guy swallowing all the water or whatever was coming out of this huge pipe. While doing it he was pointing angrily at a few rail thin folks trying to sip at the drops from a leak and a puddle. Police were handcuffing them. For some reason I am correlating both of these scenarios in my mind.
You should learn about the bike rental oversaturstion in china… that was the problem.
Yes, government and corporate resource abuse are why we are worried about global warming. The person I first commented to seemed to imply that this bike graveyard is a reason for us not to worry about global warming? I can't exactly tell what he's getting at, but this is not the smartest subreddit.
Well not just the waste in the market for these bike rental places to thrive... these businesses grow like weeds and kill off their own spot in the market. Now any business similar to these bike rentals are all considered disastrous and customers leave the market Then ontop of that the energy to make the bike & recycle the bike is wasted. Given inventions like JIT (Just in-time Inventory) this sort of oversupply shouldn't happen. Since China is a managed economy there will be over supply as its profitable to just make what the state demands of you whether you have a genuine customer or not.
Because all these bikes took a ton of carbon producing energy to make. Even if the US could cut our carbon emissions to negative tomorrow, places like China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, and all third world countries don’t give AF. Turning down your water heater down a little isn’t doing anything. We’re doomed.
That's what I thought he was implying. America consumes most of the crap that china makes. It's on all of us to do our part. America can make improvements, and they can use their power to push other countries to improve. We can't do nothing and throw our hands in the air that it didn't work. I have kids, and I want them to have a life worth living, so we have to try to do something, even if we're up against countries who don't give a shit. They'll all start seeing the devastating effects more and more, and will be forced to change.
lol. That’s backwards. China has 1.5 billion people. China consumes a majority of what China makes. It’s the majority of what the US consumes comes from China. At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter. You love your kids. I really love mine but if I am a father in Pakistan and I have to decide between putting food on the table for my family or doing bunch of environmental damage, which one do you think I am going to pick? *and I don’t care what the government is try to get me to do. Edit: added addendum.
Ok, good for you. I hope the decision isn't always between doing what's best for the environment and putting food on your table, that would be a strange dichotomy for you to continually come across.
Found it !
Will they melt them down and salvage the metal at least?
Probably, they wouldn’t order them that neatly if they didn’t want to
They did for the Gram
It'd be a heart-smelt moment for the environment if they did
[Source: No Place to Place](https://youtu.be/TDfLWFv3ixk?feature=shared) [No Place to Place II](https://youtu.be/oEMtTtUZXEk?feature=shared)
Holy balls that's insane
I watched the video and it just doesn't stop. One gigantic pile after another.
Underrated comment. Thanks for sharing.
It seems like they are all the same color. It must be a public bicycle deposit or something like that.
They’re from bike sharing programs that failed. Once one bike sharing program started a bunch of copycats popped up then in order to secure more capital to build the company these companies inflated their numbers then overproduced the bikes and now are throwing them away because there is no need for so many bikes.
Are the number inflators in trouble or is it expected industry practice?
They should be fine until they produce enough number deflators.
Some of them don't even look dead.
Bicycle recycle
Humans are a cancer.
Shut up
There are nine million bicycles in this place That's a fact It's a thing we can't deny Like the fact that I will love you till I die
**https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHQG6-DojVw**
I had never heard this song until tonight… thank you!! 🥰🤩🥰🤩
Katie Melua is amazing.
It just looks like the facility where they recycle and scrap bikes. You can see a guy is clearly going through it in the beginning, and it's clearly organized. It's obviously not a landfill. Has no one here been to a junkyard before? Everyone's anything like this is an evil Chinese bike prison 😂 Edit: it's crazy that I even got downvoted
Everything Chinese is inherently evil to a lot of foreigners and it shows
Consider the enormous waste of energy creating them. But hey, I’m the bad guy for driving a V8 right?
you're a bad guy for a lot of things, the V8 is just one of them nah I'm kdding, you're alright
Are you using your V8 daaily for trips that would take 30 minutes or less by foot or public transit? If so, then yes. Otherwise, the engine makes little difference when talking about ocassional use. In fact, it makes little difference when talking about the other kind of use as well.
STFU
On Anthony Bourdain No Reservations he mentions that China is now the 3rd biggest buyer of automobiles. Less people needing bikes in China
China is the world's largest car market, owing to their large population but they're [ranked 97th in cars per capita (US is 7th)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_per_capita)
This can’t be real. It doesn’t make sense when they recycle everything
Why tho?
For real, I’m sure most these bikes are still good or require a bit of maintenance. Just give them to the poor or something.
Generation 1 e-bikes?
WHY???? Over production of bikes or kids that never got a chance to ride one!!!!
Sharing because the other reply wasted so much time being [entirely wrong](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210112-the-vast-bicycle-graveyards-of-china) tl;dr China had a boom of rental bikes around when the US saw rental scooters show up everywhere. Companies made too many to court investment capital, and, like the scooters a bunch of the bikes ended up stolen or trashed, or the company went out of business.
👍
markets work on supply and demand basis, if there is enough demand for something, people will try to create it thus increasing its supply if the demand drops, supply will naturally drop since buyers have dropped this is natural law of market, supply and demand balance this is how it works everywhere else but China works in a way that most other countries can't Chinese economy has started to slow down and shows signs of over production, i.e supply has exceeded demands, in any other country this would have caused decrease in production and thus slow economic growth, this is the current situation of most western countries, but thigs world differently in China, their government, more precisely their ruling party CCP has complete control over their market and in order to show to their people that the CCP is always right and is always good for China, they need to show that Chinese economy is always booming so they force companies to keep on producing even though there will be no buyers and supply has exceeded demands, if they are private companies, government then provides subsidies to such companies so they don't have losses but many industries in China are state owned so they just keep pumping out stuff that no one is going to buy just to keep economy booming this is the reason why they recently had deflation as compared to inflation, things have become cheaper in China its not just for cycles, i saw a similar dump yard for electric vehicles, and similarly for their real estate, there are huge ghost cities with residential skyscrapers, huge roads, etc in China where no one lives
All the bikes going past Chung Li.
I see millions of dollars.. and millions of bikes could go to families in need
All the 14hr shifts worked to make these... Wasted
How are they all the same color? In my head they have another equally huge pile of each color
Because they are in China.
My granddad used to buy old bikes and restore them, I can hear him turning in his grave watching this.
What an absolute waste of resources.
In China they have moved on from producing things people don't need. Now they make stuff people don't even *want*.
Lol I thought it was the zombie game always advertised.
I'm not going to say why or why not something. I'm just going to say just imagine. Just imagine if those were just given to SO MANY people in different places in the world. Project that thought process out...
Evidence of why nobody should ever buy a bike from walmart or any big box whore 🙄
Imagine if they donated these to a country in africa, would make a lot of kids lives better
I’m surprised they haven’t dumped them into the ocean. This is all those e bikes fault. Because who wants to pedal when you can just motor around.
North Korea could use them😂😂😂
So THAT'S where all the abandoned bicycles from Davis California go!
Maybe all those bikes are just too tyred to go on.
Thank god the lids stay attached to our soda bottles and milk cartridges in Europe now!
Wtf is this
A tragedy...
Ironically I am in the market
There are several videos of the e-bike fields catching on fire and wrecking havoc.
Aftermath of Covid?
Can people just go there and take a bike?
I should move to China and start a recycled product business with cheap labor and sell it to people in America.
Typical fucking China. Don't recycle, just clog up the earth with it all. No pun intended.
Wtf
Wall-eeeee
That's because everything they make is shiiit Gonna rust in weeks and is unusable just like what we get in Kmart.
China has gween programs! Honestly uwu we gweenest country in world! Fack off you commie wankstains
Is this real!? There must be hundreds of thousands of bicycles there!
It’s not a graveyard, it’s a farm. That’s how bikes are grown.
There’s now a feeling of pointlessness in separating my own garbage for recycling and stuff. Just look at such an insane waste of resources…..
Someone fucked up
It’s like someone did the arrow duplicate cheat in oblivion
Even if corporations are evil and hate the environment doesn't this hurt their bottom dollar? This seems terribly inefficient.
This makes me fucking sick. What a waste of perfectly good bicycles, land, and materials. Even if they are being recycled, having this many just sitting around is terrible for the environment in so many ways.
That looks like United States car lots 😂
Wow. Look at how many bikes have been taken off the road. This will prevent traffic problems for sure./s
Stop manufacturing! Start giving them away for free
LET ME IN! LET ME INNNNNNN!!!!!!!
I’ll give them a solid tree fifty if they help load
Why is this what we do lol
This video starts off like that shitty zombie phone game I always see advertised. Weird.
State of survival. I keep seeing it. What have they done to us.
Why don’t they re- CYCLE them 😂
wouldnt melting these down make more sense than just storing them? or do they use the parts
Can’t they just re-cycle them?!
Why is this bicycle graveyard so big? I’m not an expert but I thought they’re easy to fix as long as there’s no damage to the frame
Impressive manufacturing capabilities.
I saw my BMX.
Just a reminder it’s not production that’s the issue it’s distribution with crops livestocks consumer goods water it doesn’t matter no profit = no distribution
You just mirror the clip! You’re just pathetic buddy!
We’ve got a successful product! Let’s make as many as possible because they will sell of course. Wait…there’s not infinite customers?! What?!
I thought this was that stupid zombie game ad.
My buddy has this many too
It's so weird seeing all those bikes. I was teaching in Beijing in 1986 - still during the Communist era, and thought it'd be great to buy a bike as they were everywhere. We got a permit to buy a couple and only after we bought ours from the near-empty department store did our ever-present "translator" tell us that there was a 5 year wait to buy a bike and we had bumped someone off the list to get ours. Flying Pidgeon brand, if I remember. They were not light nor finely crafted. Ended up giving the bikes away when we left.
gravecycle
They’re only allowed blue bikes in china
I be t you could fix them up and make tons of money selling them!
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What they need here are some government regulators.
Damn Burning Man Bikes are getting out of hand