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 Eco-Cycle wins another award—the sixth one this year!
This month, Eco-Cycle won the Camera's Boulder County Gold People's Choice Award for best non-profit organization. Thank you Boulder County!
Earlier this year, our Zero Waste Services program for businesses, Zero Waste Event Kit and Green Star Schools program also won awards. Visit our awards page to learn more >>
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 Single-stream recycling is here!
Depending on where you live in Boulder County, sometime this year your two recycling bins will at last become ONE. Instead of diligently separating recyclables into two “streams”—mixed paper (newspaper, junk mail, etc.) and commingled containers (bottles, cans, etc.)—recyclers will be able to put these two streams together in one bin. Learn more about single-stream and when it's coming to your home or business >> |
 Compost your leaves and pumpkins, and do your part to build healthy soil and curb global warming. If you can't mulch your leaves onsite, drop your materials at one of these collection sites throughout Boulder County and Broomfield>> |
 Zero Waste Event Services
Eco-Cycle has a variety of tools to help you host a green event:
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 Move your business closer to Zero Waste by making smart purchasing decisions.
Eco-Cycle's eStore makes purchasing decisions easy because we've done the legwork to find the products that will help you and our community reduce waste, prevent pollution, conserve resources
and reach our Zero Waste goals. Green your buying practices with the Eco-Cycle eStore >>
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 Zero Waste is the fastest and most effective first step toward reducing climate change.
According to a national report co-authored by Eco-Cycle, reducing waste disposed in landfills and incinerators can have climate benefits equivalent to removing 21% of U.S. coal-fired power plants. Download the report or learn more about Eco-Cycle's work on Zero Waste and climate change.
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Catch up on the latest Zero Waste progress!
Read about single-stream recycling, how your food scraps are heating the planet, and the latest achievements of schools and businesses in moving toward Zero Waste. Read more in our spring/summer newsletter >> (PDF)
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| Our Zero Waste community partners & how you can get involved |
| Look for these clings around Boulder and Broomfield Counties at participating businesses, schools, municipalities and in the homes of our volunteers to know who is helping us create a Zero Waste model for the rest of the world. Click on each cling to find out who is involved and how you can get involved. |
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| What is Zero Waste? |
Rather than looking at our production systems as one way and linear, we can redesign them to be cyclical, as in nature, where there is no such thing as “waste” and materials are kept in the production cycle. Zero Waste is emerging as a paradigm shift, a new, comprehensive socio-technical system that addresses our resource use from product design to disposal.
There are four central concepts to the Zero Waste system:
- Changing the Rules to support resource recovery;
- Producer Responsibility to hold industry liable for creating less toxic and more efficient products;
- Purchasing for Zero Waste to use our buying power as our voice for Zero Waste; and
- Resource Recovery Infrastructure to build the processing and recovery systems to move us toward Zero Waste. Learn more about all these aspects and the Zero Waste System.
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| Take Action |
 While we work toward longer-term, challenging solutions like shutting down coal-fired power plants and taking cars off the road, the easiest, first step that can produce significant climate results RIGHT NOW is to STOP landfill-produced methane. Simply by getting COOL — Compostable Organics Out of Landfills — by 2012, we can prevent potent methane emissions AND build healthier soils. Taking the COOL step replenishes carbon stocks and supports sustainable agriculture, yielding healthier foods for our population. The technology exists, the need is certain and the time to act is NOW. Get involved>> |
It’s time to hold TV manufacturers responsible for their discarded products, just as they are in other countries of the world—including Japan, Taiwan and throughout the European Union. Learn which manufacturers are being responsible and which are not--and tell these ones to "Take Back My TV."
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 The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way
you look at all the stuff in your life forever. Watch The Story of Stuff and then share it with a friend. |
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