Grand Opening for New Recycling Center Honors Volunteers, Community Spirit
By Mark Ruzzin

The grand opening of the BCRC provided an opportunity for EcoCycle to thank and salute all those who helped make the facility a reality. Following speeches by Boulder County Recycling and Composting Authority chair Tom Mayer and Boulder County Commissioner Jana Mendez, attendees at the dedication ceremony heard EcoCycle Executive Director Eric Lombardi, EcoCycle co-founder Roy Young, and U.S. Congressman Mark Udall spoke to the community spirit responsible for EcoCycle’s 25 years of success.

Many who have been involved from the days of the County’s Solid Waste Task Force to the successful passage of the 1994 county-wide recycling tax (the only tax approved that year!) and through the construction of the BCRC were on hand to be personally honored. Special thanks go out to all who have helped over the years but were unable to attend the dedication ceremony.

Eric Lombardi, Roy Young and Mark Udall spoke eloquently about the important role that community members like you play in making recycling in Boulder County successful. Without such a caring community, we wouldn’t be where we are today, and we won’t get to where we need to go in the future. The new BCRC is just the first step in turning Boulder County into the waste diversion capital of the country; look for EcoCycle to enlist your help to make that vision a reality!

Below: Out of the Old and Into the New-After 25 years of processing 40,000 tons of recyclables a year outdoors in the rain, snow, and-worst of all-the wind, EcoCycle has finally moved indoors.

EcoCycle co-founder Roy Young (Below) gave a tribute at the Boulder County Recycling Center grand opening to the many volunteers who have made recycling what it is today-volunteers like Archie Richardson (left) who worked for years at the 28th Street Drop-off Center, helping prepare materials for market.