Reuse - Lengthen the life of a product or material before it is recycled or disposed.

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How to Reuse a Worn-out Bike Tube

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I work in a bike shop and a lot of folks come in because their tire tubes have popped. Most people don't want to patch their old tube, but want a new tube instead. So, there are hundreds of used bike tubes, made of good, strong, stretchable plastic.

How can the used tubes be reused?

Challenge Guidelines

Turn the worn bike tubes into another useful tool and provide instructions for folks at home of how they to can create the new tool from their used bike tubes.

What this challenge offers to the winner

A tutorial about how to patch a bike tube.

Which state this challenge is located in

Oregon

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Richard Halpern: EcoWave! Have you checked your inbox lately? :)

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