NOTICE for City of Boulder residents: Special Collection for Storm Debris
Starting Monday, Oct. 31, Western Disposal will provide one extra pickup of branches that are left out for curbside compost collection. Branches left at the curb must be no longer than 6 feet and no bigger than 6 inches in diameter. Place branches and tree limbs at the curb before your regular compost collection day. They will be picked up once within the next two weeks.
Join Us and Explore what it Means to Be Sustainable
Eco-Cycle, in partnership with Amadeus Consulting and the St. Julien Hotel & Spa, is hosting a Sustainability Summit, a half-day event on what it means to be sustainable. The event focuses on Community and how re-investing in ours, achieves economic, environmental and social benefits. Attendees will receive information that is relevant to both the business and residential sector demystifying sustainability. Typically, an event of this nature would cost anywhere from $75-$150 per person. THIS IS A FREE EVENT on Friday, November 18th from 1 pm – 5 pm with an extended St. Julien Happy Hour following from 5 - 7 pm.
Some of our participating companies include Amgen, the University of Colorado at Boulder, Whole Foods, the Boulder Outlook Hotel, the Center for Resource Conservation, and Boulder Community Hospital to name a few. This event is sponsored by the City of Boulder Local Environmental Action Division (LEAD).
Fall is here! Discard those leaves and pumpkins the eco-friendly way in Boulder, Longmont, Lafayette, Louisville, Superior and the greater Boulder County area with our Guide to Fall Leaf Collections.
Sick of dealing with junk mail?
We are too. That's why we are launching a Stop Junk Mail for GOOD service. It's good for you, good for the planet, and free for Boulder County residents and businesses!
It's so great to still be a favorite after 35 years. Thank you for all your support!
Scrap metal moves in Boulder
NEW BOULDER SCRAP METAL RECYCLING LOCATION: Eco-Cycle/City of Boulder CHaRM(Center for Hard-to-Recycle Materials) 5030 "Old" Pearl St.
OPEN Monday – Saturday, 9 am – 4 pm
VISITORS WILL NOT BE CHARGED TO RECYCLE SCRAP METAL AT THE CHaRM. Items containing Freon®, like refrigerators, do require a $15 fee for the safe removal of the Freon®. For hard-to-recycle materials, such as electronics, there is $3 facility fee as well as individual recycling fees for some materials. Learn more about CHaRM prices for hard-to-recycle items.
Why are we moving the scrap metal recycling location?
Boulder County wanted to improve scrap metal service to our community by:
1) Providing a secure, staffed location to drop off scrap metal
2) Increasing scrap metal opportunities. The new location at the CHaRM will allow Eco-Cycle to sort materials for reuse, which will support and foster local reuse and repair businesses. It will also enable us to sort by metal type, which will allow us to better market some of the more valuable metals and help generate more revenue for community Zero Waste programs.
Click here to view and print a scrap metal info flyer or here to learn more about the change.
You've got recycling questions, we've got video answers! Eco-Cycle has a variety of short video clips to help you better understand our recycling guidelines and the recycling process. Here's our latest video, a recycling game for the whole family: Does It Go, In the Bin?!?!
Announcing Eco-Celebrations, a new elegant Zero Waste event service
Eco-Celebrations is a Zero Waste service that turns any black tie event into an elegant green tie event. Learn more about Eco-Celebrations for stylishly sustainable events including corporate events, fundraising galas, weddings and commitment ceremonies, and social events and celebrations.
Have your own idea on how to advance Zero Waste? Email us!
National Eco-Cycle research reveals micro-plastics in compost threaten humans and our environment. Many U.S. compost programs are inadvertently polluting our soils with plastic fragments by trying to compost plastic-coated paper products, according to new research from Eco-Cycle and partner Woods End Laboratories. These small plastic fragments threaten marine and soil ecosystems, wildlife and even humans, enough to call for a ban on plastic-coated plastic products from composting. Read more about our findings and help keep our compost clean by following these guidelines.
The Eco-Cycle Times is here!
And this issue is unlike any other: We’ve changed it to be your guide for Zero Waste news, recycling updates, eco-conscious living and more.Check it out »
Shop green with our Boulder and Longmont Tour de ThriftMaps!
Boulder has more than two dozen secondhand stores for clothing, furniture, books and more. Shop these outlets first, instead of buying new, to reduce your impact on our environment, promote Zero Waste, support our local economy and save money too. Grab a friend and our Boulder Tour de Thrift map or our Longmont Tour de Thrift map and get started today! Or visit our Reuse page to learn more.
The Story of Electronics This 8-minute animated movie takes on the electronics industry’s “design for the dump” mentality and champions
product takeback to spur companies to make less toxic, more easily recyclable and longer lasting products.
Support Eco-Cycle and the environment with Eco-Inspired Birthday Parties for Kids! Eco-Cycle's Party with the Planet Birthday Parties combine fun activities with green values. They also support a good cause: The proceeds go to Eco-Cycle’s School Recycling and Environmental Education Programs. (A portion of the cost is tax deductible.) Now take $50 off the regular price!Learn more»
Building a Zero Waste Community
We've changed our mission to reflect a new era of resource conservation in our community. We are now "Working to Build a Zero Waste Community." Eco-Cycle is partnering with individuals, schools, businesses, governments and event organizers to make ours a model Zero Waste community for the world.
Our Zero Waste community partners & how you can get involved
Look for these clings around Boulder County 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.
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.
Click on the icons above to learn more about how you can get involved with Zero Waste in our community.
Take Action
Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families. Chemicals are a part of our lives. But when they threaten our health and safety, we have a right to know. Every day we are unknowingly exposed to toxic chemicals where we live, where we work, and where our children play. If this truly is a time of change, this is something that needs changing - now. Join the thousands of people signing on to make a change.
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>>
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.
Eco-Cycle, in partnership with Amadeus Consulting and the St. Julien Hotel & Spa, is hosting a Sustainability Summit, a half-day event on what it means to be sustainable. The event focuses on Community and how re-investing in ours, achieves economic, environmental and social benefits. Attendees will receive information that is relevant to both the business and residential sector demystifying sustainability. Typically, an event of this nature would cost anywhere from $75-$150 per person. THIS IS A FREE EVENT on Friday, November 18th from 1 pm – 5 pm with an extended St. Julien Happy Hour following from 5 - 7 pm.
Eco-Cycle wins best non-profit
Scrap metal moves in Boulder
Help move our community toward Zero Waste. 
