Project

Eco-Cycle
Building Zero Waste Communities

Local Eco-Cycle volunteers brought recycling to Boulder in 1976, making the city one of the first 20 communities in the U.S. to offer curbside recycling. Forty years later, Eco-Cycle is pioneering a new form of resource management, reducing pollution and tackling climate change through the concepts and practices of Zero Waste. For local communities, Zero Waste practices now top the list of the quickest and most cost-effective ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Eco-Cycle also operates the Boulder County Recycling Center and the Center for Hard-to-Recycle Materials in Boulder, as well as providing programs and services to help businesses, schools, local governments, neighborhoods and events in Boulder County and beyond reduce, reuse, recycle, compost and otherwise eliminate the concept of “waste.” We also spearheaded the successful effort to make recycling and composting available citywide in Boulder through a new ordinance that takes effect this summer.

Colorado recycles only 12% of its waste—about one-third of the national average. Eco-Cycle is working to make recycling and composting, along with other Zero Waste Practices, easy for all Coloradans to embrace.