This year Recycle Colorado and our members were able to...
- Pass HB22-1355 Producer Responsibility legislation
- Pass HB22-1159, the Circular Economy Development Center
- Hire an amazing Executive Director, Liz Chapman
- Host our first in-person Summit for Recycling and Annual Meeting in two years
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During Colorado Recycles Week, we are taking to LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter to highlight the success of our members. Follow us on social media to be part of the celebration!
If your organization has an accomplishment you would like us to post on social media, please email us!
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Congratulations to our New Board of Directors!
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We are lucky to have our new board members as part of the Recycle Colorado team. Thank you for everyone who ran for a board position and participated in this year's election process. We look forward to accomplishing our mission and vision with the guidance of these great individuals over the next few years.
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Thank You to our Outgoing Board Members
Tim Broderick, Randy Moorman, Tom Sisnroy, and Emily Wilson
We appreciate the time and commitment you have given. With your support, Recycle Colorado was able to make great strides within the recycling world.
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Thank you to our members for the great work across the state and nation you are doing to improve Recycling!
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AMP Robotics
AMP's latest funding of $91 million helped modernize and scale waste infrastructure to continue improving the economics and efficiency of recycling.
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GreenSheen Paint
- Maintains an over 92% paint-to-paint recycling rate year after year.
- Received an RREO grant to create a paint bucket reuse operation. They will create a wash line so buckets can simply be washed and reused rather than landfilled.
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High Country Conservation Center
- The towns of Breckenridge and Frisco Passed Pay as You Throw & Universal Recycling.
- Rocky’s Recyclers reached 266 students and teachers this year.
- With the Free Residential Food Scrap Program, 246,000 lbs of residential food waste were diverted from landfill this year.
- 921 recycling bins were scanned for contamination this year.
- Over 35 Summit County businesses are composting food waste.
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PaintCare
To date, PaintCare has collected more than 60 million gallons of paint across all state programs. In fact, 5.2 million gallons of this total was collected in Colorado. Utilizing a network of nearly 200 year-round drop-off sites, the Colorado PaintCare program is making paint recycling more convenient in the state and keeping paint out of the waste stream.
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Smokey's Cannabis Co.
Michelle and Ryan showcase one aspect of Smokey's Cannabis Co's sustainability program. Smokey's partners with Green For Green, where customers can earn rewards by bringing back empty containers. Then Green For Green is able to sanitize and prepare them to be used time and time again. Everybody Wins!
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Eco-Cycle
Along with helping Recycle Colorado, and a broad coalition of national and state businesses, environmental advocates, residents, and over 65 Colorado communities successfully champion HB22-1355: Producer Responsibility for Recycling Program, Eco-Cycle has also completed two studies for CDPHE: the Front Range Waste Diversion Baseline Assessment and Greater Colorado Waste Diversion Baseline Assessment. The reports and accompanying interactive maps provide a look at access to recycling and composting programs and other key metrics to establish a baseline assessment for our diversion system. Both reports show trends in diversion, identify what programs communities have in place, and provide suggestions of programs and policies to advance diversion for users to reference in grant applications, public education, and decision making.
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Glass to Glass Denver
Glass to Glass Denver is Colorado’s new and improved location for glass collection, processing, and output. Our glass output for September and October were record 2022 months yielding 7000 tons of furnace ready glass. Newly installed bunkers provide over 200 cubic yards of storage space for transport ready clean glass.
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City of Golden
The City of Golden collects appliances and mattresses from residents which has diverted more than 50,000 lbs of these items from the landfill in 2022.
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Foam Cycle & SustainAbility
SustainAbility’s recycling drop-off center successfully recycled many different items, yet diverting packaging foam from the solid waste stream was being done at a great “cost” to both the agency, and the environment.
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An introduction from NextCycle Colorado brought in a unique company, Foam Cycle, to highlight it’s plug and play system of processing and repurposing packaging waste foam where it is being collected. With an RREO grant, determination and a vision, SustainAbility’s diverse work force has collected over 18,000 pounds (9 tons) of EPS and avoided trucking at least 2,300 miles by recycling the foam at their Center.
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