Tag: recycling
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Waste plan for Colorado Springs sets goal to double recycling rate by 2045
Colorado Springs has released a long-term plan to more than double the amount of material that gets diverted from landfills to recycling. The Waste Diversion Action Plan, announced Tuesday, is the result of a study that Colorado Springs has worked on since the summer of 2023 through its WastelessCOS campaign. The study included sorting roughly…
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What can you do with the tree after Christmas? Recycling is an option
Christmas just got even more green in El Paso County. TreeCycle is offering a charitable alternative to tossing your Christmas tree after the holidays. For just $5 per tree, residents can drop off their trees at six locations throughout the county. Through the program, the county is offering an alternative that reduces tree waste, creates…
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Waste study, state programs to expand recycling access in Colorado Springs next year
By the end of 2026, Colorado will be running a program to dramatically expand recycling rates and access across the state. Colorado Springs recently completed a study to see what improvements the city can make on that front. Colorado House Bill 22-1355 established a program that charged fees to the biggest producers of recycling in…
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Colorado Springs man donates nearly 100,000 aluminum tabs to charity — one beer at a time
A Colorado Springs man recently made a sizable, if somewhat unorthodox, donation to Ronald McDonald House. On Thursday, Roger Wertheimer drove to the temporary home for families of critically ill children and dropped off a collection that took more than a decade to build, with a little help from his friends: a haul of aluminum…
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Are faithful household recyclers in Colorado truly helping the planet? Maybe
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save When you drop an empty milk jug, soda can, pickle jar or cardboard box into a recycling bin, will it make its way to a processing center and be reborn as carpeting, a beer bottle or a coat? Maybe. Or maybe not. There’s no tracking…
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Are faithful household recyclers in Colorado truly helping the planet? Maybe
When you drop an empty milk jug, soda can, pickle jar or cardboard box into a recycling bin, will it make its way to a processing center and be reborn as carpeting, a beer bottle or a coat? Maybe. Or maybe not. There’s no tracking method to determine whether an item marked for recycling is…
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BIDLACK | What the country really needs is a Green Manhattan Project
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Hal Bidlack I hate it when this happens — I find myself mostly in agreement with the Colorado Springs Gazette’s March 28 editorial, though not entirely. The Gazette’s op/ed page tends to run to the, well, can we just…
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BIDLACK | What the country really needs is a Green Manhattan Project
I hate it when this happens — I find myself mostly in agreement with the Colorado Springs Gazette’s March 28 editorial, though not entirely. The Gazette’s op/ed page tends to run to the, well, can we just say “conservative” and leave it at that? Over the years, I’ve often been offended and/or outraged by the views expressed there. But…
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Bill setting limits on plastic straws dies in Colorado House committee
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Restaurants and bars would have no longer been able to automatically dispense plastic straws under a proposed law that died Monday afternoon in a Colorado House committee. The bill died at the request of the very representative who proposed it: Rep. Susan Lontine, D-Denver. That…
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Bill setting limits on plastic straws dies in Colorado House committee
Restaurants and bars would have no longer been able to automatically dispense plastic straws under a proposed law that died Monday afternoon in a Colorado House committee. The bill died at the request of the very representative who proposed it: Rep. Susan Lontine, D-Denver. That request came after the House Committee on Energy and Environment…