Relax, snack and enjoy the view without leaving a trace with Eco-Cycle's new Zero Waste Picnic Kit! It costs a mere $15 and can make your picnic waste-free for up to 10 people. Order yours today!
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We’ll notify you each month about a topic related to Zero Waste
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CHaRM's Earth Day gift to you: yoga mat recycling!
Standard yoga mats made from plastic foam, rubber foam or jute will all be accepted in the program. We will charge a $1 per mat recycling fee to cover overhead costs (in addition to the $3 facility fee), and we ask that all mats be cleaned and free of major stains before you bring them to the CHaRM. Learn more about why yoga mat recycling is important.
Ever wondered how we sort your recycling, especially now that it's all collected in one bin? Watch this 15 minute video on the Boulder County Recycling Center and follow all your materials through the sorting process as we prepare to send them off to be made into new products. You'll see why we created our single-stream guidelines and why it's important to keep plastic bags and shredded paper out of your curbside recycling bin.
Single-stream recycling is here! Do you know your Dirty Dozen contaminants?
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 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.
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.
CHaRM's Earth Day gift to you: yoga mat recycling!
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