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It's OPEN! EcoCycle-Boulder
Center for Hard-to-Recycle Materials. Dan and Nan at
your service. Visit the new Center for Hart-to-Recycle
Materials and you'll meet our greeter Nanci Bibb and
our new Center Manager Dan Matsch.
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New EcoCycle-Boulder Center for Hard-to-Recycle
Materials
For
years, recyclers have been asking EcoCycle to collect
electronics-bulky, highly toxic products that clearly do
not belong in the landfill. Closets, garages, basements
and attics throughout Boulder County have become resting
places for thousands of outdated laptops, burned-out
monitors, defunct CPU’s and small-screen televisions,
all because no environmentally-responsible alternative
to the landfill exists. The greatest obstacle in
developing a reuse and recycling center has always been
a lack of space. But now that the Boulder County
Recycling Center is up and running, EcoCycle’s old
processing yard at 5030 “old” Pearl is available to
receive the next generation of recyclable materials.
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In the 1900's everyone was
charged the same amount for their trash--even those who
didn't generate much waste. That was before ZERO WASTE
and Pay As You Throw, where people are charged for the
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New
Boulder Ordinance Creates Incentive to Reduce Waste
Goal: To Make Boulder a
"One-Can" Town
by Same Cole and Mark Ruzzin
Currently, over 70% of Boulder’s households throw away
two or more cans of garbage every week. A new City of
Boulder ordinance seeks to change that and make Boulder
a “one-can” town. The ordinance requires an expanded
menu of recyclables to be collected at the curb and
creates a financial incentive to reduce waste. It is
hoped that Boulder will follow in the footsteps of
communities like San Jose and Seattle where similar
ordinances have helped nearly 90% of the residents
reduce their garbage down to one can per week.
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