Volunteer Opportunities and Events in and around Boulder, Colorado
Your home for Zero Waste volunteer opportunities and environmental events throughout Boulder County! Learn more about our volunteer program—the Eco-Leader Volunteer Network—here!
Calling all Eco-Leaders!
Looking for fun ways to get involved in the Zero Waste movement? Read on to find the latest and greatest volunteer events, webinars, and sign-ups for local opportunities to take action with Eco-Cycle and other community partners! Not an Eco-Leader yet? Before you sign up, join our network of about 1,000 volunteers.
Eco-Leader Events
2025 Colorado Policy Action Meeting: February 11
Join Eco-Cycle for a policy debrief and learn about ways you can engage
February 11, 6:00 pm–7:15 pm MT
Via Zoom
Join us to explore upcoming Zero Waste policies that Eco-Cycle will champion this legislative session. This meeting is your chance to learn how you can take action on Zero Waste policies in Colorado and connect directly with Eco-Cycle policy experts Randy Moorman and Ryan Call. Community members like YOU are the reason Colorado has made huge strides in Zero Waste policy—and there’s no better time to get involved than now!
Webinar: Producer Responsibility in Colorado
Learn how Colorado’s Producer Responsibility law will create free recycling across the state, and how we’re tackling battery waste this year
February 27, 6:00 pm–7:30 pm MT
Via Zoom
Eco-Cycle successfully championed monumental Producer Responsibility legislation (HB 22-1355) in 2022 that requires producers to take responsibility for their packaging from cradle to grave. Join Eco-Cycle for a webinar about Producer Responsibility, where policy expert Rachel Setzke will cover the Colorado law that will provide packaging recycling to all Coloradans as well as the upcoming efforts to create a statewide system for recycling batteries in 2025. We hope you can join us to learn how you can be part of this exciting solution!
Missed the 2025 Eco-Leader Kickoff last month? We’ve got you covered!
Last week, a big group of Eco-Leaders gathered together to discuss how we can take action in 2025. If you couldn’t make it, we made a separate recording for you to catch up! Please find that recording here.
There are many calls to action this year, but one of the foundational actions we’re requesting is for Eco-Leaders to sign up for Action Teams this year!
Action Teams help us engage you in the most meaningful way possible, and support our work more effectively. If you choose not to opt in to any Teams, we will still always let you know about important Eco-Leader calls to action, but this is a way to engage more deeply in whatever aspects of the program are most interesting to you.
Learn from repair experts at a free DIY repair clinic in Boulder, Colorado!
Boulder U-Fix-It DIY Repair Clinic
Sunday, March 9, 2025
1:00 pm–4:00 pm MT
Boulder Public Library, BLDG 61 Makerspace
U-Fix-It Clinics are community events where people bring all sorts of broken appliances, toys, electronics, clothing, and jewelry and work with volunteer coaches to learn hands-on repair skills. Not only does this save resources from the landfill, but it also empowers us to repair our own belongings and builds community around the role of reuse in a circular economy! Eco-Cycle is proud to be a supporter of this impactful, feel-good event.
Register below for your slot, and bring that item you haven’t thrown out but don’t know how to fix!
Volunteer Opportunities
Make your voice heard to help slash methane emissions in Colorado
Action alert! The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is in the process of updating landfill emission regulations and wants to hear from you!
Landfills are a major source of methane—a potent greenhouse gas that generates when organic discards, like food scraps and yard debris, break down without oxygen. This invisible pollutant leaks into our atmosphere, driving global warming at an alarming rate. In the US, landfill methane emissions are equivalent to the pollution from 24 million passenger vehicles or 74 coal plants. Landfills also release harmful air pollutants that disproportionately impact low-income and communities of color nationwide.
Eco-Cycle is leading a coalition of organizations to encourage the state of Colorado and the Air Quality Control Commission to adopt the strongest possible update to the state’s landfill methane control requirements, and we need your support!
During the month of February, you can make your voice heard by:
- Attending CDPHE’s virtual public participation meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm MT, or
- Submitting written public comment.
Boulder Volunteer Opportunity: Be a volunteer CHaRM lane attendant!
At the Eco-Cycle Center for Hard-to-Recycle Materials (CHaRM) in Boulder, volunteers are essential. Learn how you can engage recycling customers about Zero Waste and related environmental issues, and help prevent “contamination” (non-recyclable items) from being mistakenly dropped off.
If you’ve already attended a Saturday orientation, sign up here for your next shift! Please email [email protected] with any questions.
NEW CHARM LANE VOLUNTEERS: Please sign up for a Saturday orientation BEFORE signing up for a volunteer slot! Once you have attended an orientation and received volunteer training, we gratefully welcome you to sign up for any of the volunteer slots that fit your schedule. Training is offered the first Saturday of most months. The next training is March 1, 2025, from 10:00 am–12:00 pm.
Volunteer at the U-Fix-It Clinic
Help check folks in at the clinic, and match them with their volunteer coach. If you have repair skills, you can also sign up as a volunteer coach! Please email [email protected] for more info.
