Invitation to Participate in Market Dialogue: Reuse of Bicycles

Purpose of the market dialogue 

Currenlty, many usable bicycles collected from courtyard clean-ups are recycled. Copenhagen Municipality wishes to increase the number of bicycles that are directly reused. Therefore, the municipality seeks to engage in dialogue with potential partners who may be interested in contributing to the upcoming scheme. The aim of the market dialogue is to:

• gain insight into the solutions the market sees for the collection, processing, reuse, and recycling of bicycles;
• collect input from market actors that can help qualify the upcoming scheme.

Up to 40,000 bicycles will be collected under the new scheme

Copenhagen Municipality aims to develop a scheme for the collection and processing of the 25,000–40,000 bicycles that are discarded as waste each year during private courtyard clean-ups. By increasing repair and reuse, the scheme will ensure better utilization of existing resources and provide more residents with access to functional reused bicycles.

After a private courtyard clean-up, ARC (Amager Ressourcecenter) collects the bicycles that have been marked as waste and delivers them to one or more partners. The partners' task will be to receive the collected bicycles and then ensure that usable bicycles are repaired and distributed, while the remaining bicycles are recycled. The scheme does not include electric bicycles.

Copenhagen Municipality wishes the upcoming collaboration to focus on:

• ensuring that as many of the collected bicycles are reused or used for spare parts, and bikes that cannot be reused are recycled;
• ensuring documentation of how many bicycles are reused, used for spare parts, or recycled;
• involving socio-economic activities in solving the task.

Who can participate? 

Are you a part of a company, organization, association, or socio-economic actor with experience or interest in one or more aspects of the collection and processing of bicycles? If so, we would like to engage in dialogue with you. It is not necessary to be able to cover all parts of the task to participate in the market dialogue.

Do you want to participate in the market dialogue?

If your company or organization wishes to participate in the market dialogue, you are welcome to fill out the parts of the questionnaire that are relevant to you.

When and where is the market dialogue?

We will hold dialogue meetings with interested parties on the following dates in 2026:

• 25 November
• 9 December
• 10 December 

Depending on what suits you best, you can participate in person at Njalsgade 13, 2300 Copenhagen S, or online via Teams.

How to register

If you would like to be invited, please send an email to fx21@kk.dk no later than 26 November 2026. 

If we receive many registrations, we will select and invite a representative group to the dialogue meetings.

What happens after the market dialogue?

The municipality will publish a summary of the input from the market dialogue on the municipality’s website once the dialogue has concluded.

All written responses will also be included in the municipality’s further considerations regarding the content of the scheme and future collaboration.