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A Graveyard Of Colorful Bike-Share Causes Problem In China
What a colorful pile of waste.
Millions of bicycles are left abandoned in several cities in China as a result of an oversupply from Bike-share services. At first, these companies thought that this kind of business would boom, but unfortunately, to their dismay, it did not.
Ever since the fall of Bike-share companies, the government is trying to figure out what to do with the bicycle graveyards. See some of the photos below:
#1. Tons of colorful bicycles from different bike-sharing companies piled up together with the rubbles of demolished houses on July 8, 2018, in Shanghai China.
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#2. Still in Shanghai, China, bicycles are pressed into blocks in a dumping site last June 4, 2018.
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#3. In an open area in Wuhan, China, accumulated bicycles from bike sharing services have reached the number of 1.03 million.
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The bikes are left piled up near a riverbank on July 9, 2018.
#4. Meanwhile, in Caidin District, Wuhan Hubei Province in China, bicycles sit in an open area.
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#5. In this photo, a stack of tires removed from shared bicycles are seen on Hangzhou’s outskirts.
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#6. On June 4, 2018, and still, in Hangzhou, thousands of piled bikes are in an abandoned construction site.
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#7. This image is an aerial view of impounded bikes in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region’s empty field taken last April 14, 2018.
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#8. These are abandoned bikes near Wuhan’s river embankment.
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#9. Compressed into cubes, these bikes lie in the outskirts of Hangzhou on July 30, 2018.
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#10. As you can see in this photo, bicycles from various bike-sharing services are spotted among partially demolished homes in Shanghai.
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#11. On July 9, 2018, shared bikes sit along a road in Wuhan beside a river.
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#12. Another aerial view of piled bikes in Hongshan District, Wuhan last April 2, 2018.
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13. There is now a sea of black and yellow abandoned bicycles.
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#14. A relocation area in Jing’an District was also used to store the bikes.
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Clearly, it’ll take a long time for these millions of colorful bike graveyard to vanish.