I put my posts in the General Discussion forum to try to get some suggestions about whether there's any way to dispose of the bike other than taking it to the tip - with the hope that someone might be able to buy it at scrap value. The Impulse 2.0 motor is completely broken (which seems to be the only thing Impulse 2.0 motors can be relied on to do!) so I'm not comfortable selling it as an e-bike, but I suppose my posts may have been misconstrued.
I was just hoping someone might know of either someone interested in the bike for spares instead of just taking it to the tip or else some other safe way of disposing it - I'm not interested in replacing the motor like for like as it just seems more trouble than it's worth.