Author: Mary Murphy

Colorado Springs-based nonprofit Blue Star Recyclers has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the Mitsubishi Electric American Foundation to help it expand nationwide, starting with two cities next year. Blue Star, which employs disabled adults to recycle electronics that would otherwise end up in landfills, is pondering new locations in Austin, Texas; Richmond, Va.; Salt…

Exports from the Colorado Springs area declined 5 percent in 2016 to $786.9 million, the third consecutive drop and the seventh in the past eight years, according to data released last week by the U.S. International Trade Administration. All but $104 million in local exports were manufactured products, mostly computer and electronic equipment, though miscellaneous…