Modeshift Partner Spotlight – Doing R Bit
Doing R Bit provides a range of sustainably sourced cycling and scooter storage facilities and associated street furniture. The ‘R’ is the driver of Doing R Bit, which looks to Reduce, Re-Use, Recycle and Re-Balance its impact on the environment throughout all its processes.
Here Dave Spencer, Doing R Bit Founder, tells us more about the organisation and projects they’ve been working on:
Where Doing R Bit began
“One day as I was visiting my daughters and I was made aware by my eldest grandson, who was 10 at the time that I’d dropped an elastic band on the drive, and I should pick it up and dispose of it responsibly “as it takes years for it to biodegrade grandad”.
I duly did as I was told but was curious to find out more, so later that evening I sat down with him and asked him how he knew that “it takes years to biodegrade” and what we discussed blew me away! His knowledge on climate change, C02 emissions, rising sea levels, plastic pollution, greenhouse gases, air pollution was truly astounding for one so young.
I was unable to sleep that night and couldn’t get our discussion out of my mind. So decided the very next morning to try and find a way to redress the balance.
It is, after all, my generation and the generations before me who have had all the benefits of the earth’s resources, and I was conscious of the legacy I was leaving so founded Doing R Bit.”
Sheffield City Council School Streets projects
Fast forward to now.
“We ‘ve been working closely with Sheffield City Council over the last 10 months on a number of their School Streets projects and part of this work was based around the need to find a way of simplifying the operational structure of closing a school street.
Like a lot of councils across the UK, schools relied heavily on volunteers to help monitor traffic flow at school drop off and pick up times, this, on a lot of sites was achieved by having to erect cumbersome folding barriers which required at least two people to operate.
The whole process was fraught with problems and resulted in volunteer drop off, so a simpler solution was sought and together we developed an integrated retractable barrier system which is housed in a sustainable timber roadside planter and requires just the one operative!
They have been well received with some very positive feedback from the schools that have them and we are currently working on providing the next batch soon to be installed.”
Visit Doing R Bit – Helping create a sustainable future
Email dave@doingrbit.co.uk
Phone 01472 841122
