DONATE YOUR VEHICLE TO BICYCLE RECYCLE
Students, staff and faculty who no longer want their bikes or e-scooters/e-bikes are encouraged to remove them from campus property by donating them to the DOTS Bicycle Recycle program. Through Bicycle Recycle, your micromobility vehicle will be refurbished by RecWell bike mechanics and sold to Terps at a discount at select events. DOTS also works with several local non-profit organizations that will accept non-refurbished bikes as donations.
RECYCLE YOUR E-BIKE OR E-SCOOTER
If your e-scooter/e-bike is no longer in working condition, DOTS can recycle it for you for free. The lithium-ion batteries inside e-micromobility vehicles must be recycled in a specific manner as they can cause fires and other damage when disposed of incorrectly. Please do not dispose of your e-scooter/e-bike in dumpsters or curbside garbage/recycling bins.
HOW TO DONATE
- Fill out our Donation Release Form
- Drop off your micromobility vehicles at one of our striped donation racks outside the DOTS office.
WHY DONATE?
Did you know that DOTS identifies and removes as many as 200 abandoned micromobility vehicles from the UMD campus each year?
Abandoned bikes and e-scooters/e-bikes are retained for a year (as required by law) before DOTS donates them to community partners or sells them to UMD students at discounted rates. However, after a year in storage, many of these vehicles deteriorate to the point of being unusable and ultimately end up in a landfill.
When you donate your bike, you reduce environmental waste and make traveling by bike and e-scooter/e-bike accessible to other Terps.