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 Eco-Cycle co-authors national report on Zero Waste and climate. Released on World Environment Day, this report concludes that reducing waste disposed in landfills and incinerators can have climate benefits equivalent to removing 21% of U.S. coal-fired power plants. Indeed, a zero waste approach based on preventing waste and expanding reuse, recycling, and composting is one of the fastest, cheapest, and most effective strategies to protect the climate! Read more and download the report>>
Learn more about Eco-Cycle's work on the impacts of landfill methane on climate change. |
 Make Zero Waste Purchasing Easy with the new Eco-Cycle eStore, our newest tool for our business partners. Eco-Cycle staff has chosen products that will help you and our community reduce waste, prevent pollution, conserve resources and reach our Zero Waste goals. Browse Zero Waste supplies for your business and stay tuned for the coming Information and Lifestyle eStores. |
 Our spring newsletter is here! 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>> (PDF)
We're also announcing a new material: CHaRM now recycles bike tires and tubes! A small charge of 50 cents per bike tire will cover our processing costs, but there is no charge for bike tubes. No automotive or other tires are accepted. Read more>> |
 Microbe Brew is back at the Boulder Farmer's Market (Saturdays only) and the CHaRM (Wednesdays only). Eco-Cycle's Microbe Brew is a living soil amendment great for lawns, gardens, flower beds, trees, shrubs and houseplants. Microbe Brew can help you save water, grow hardier, pest-resistant plants and replenish depleted or pesticide-treated soil. Learn more about watering your soil with life. |
 Throw a Zero Waste event: Be it a meeting, baby shower, bat mitzvah, conference, wedding, barbeque, or birthday party, our Zero Waste Event Kit is everything you need to host groups from 25 to 150 people. Learn more and order yours online.
Use Eco-Cycle's Zero Waste Event Services for everything from your next birthday party to a neighborhood block party. Learn more about what we offer and how easy Zero Waste can be. |
 ¡Ver la nueva guía de reciclaje en español aqui! |
 Unload your unwanted stuff or find just the item you were looking for on Eco-Cycle Exchange. It's free to browse for items, free to list unwanted materials, and all items are traded for free. |
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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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