Norwegian recycling firm asked to scrap bikes for not meeting safety standards as refugees turn to Arctic circle route to access Europe
About 3,500 bicycles used by refugees to enter Norway from Russia are to be destroyed because they do not meet the Scandinavian country’s standards.
Rune Larsen, manager of scrapyard and recycling company Masternes Gjenvinning, in Norway’s Arctic region, said on Wednesday that his firm had been asked to destroy the bikes, employed by refugees at the remote Storskog border crossing, where pedestrian traffic is banned and drivers of vehicles are fined if they carry passengers across without the proper documents.
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