Denver
23% in 2018
What is Denver’s recycling or diversion rate?
If recyclable items are placed in this, they will be recycled
What is the recycle bin or cart?
Will be enacted in July, 2021
What is the disposable bag fee?
Saves water, energy, resources and money
What is Recycling?
First closed loop in Colorado
What is glass?
An estimated 50% was found in the landfill from Denver single family homes?
What is organic material?
The main task at the recycling center
What is separating and sorting materials from one another?
EPR
What is Extended Producer Responsibility?
Recycling this can save 95% of the energy it takes to produce
What is aluminum?
15.9% in 2019
What is CO’s recycling or diversion rate?
Sales tax passed in November 2020
What is 2A: Climate Action Tax?
Declared essential and in 2017 was valued at $265 billion in the US alone
What is the recycling industry?
Ordinance which requires businesses and apartments to provide recycling and composting services
What is a Universal Zero Waste Ordinance (UZWO)?
Since 1970 recycling has saved 4.5 billion barrels of this
What is oil?
Has the highest city-wide diversion rate in CO
What is Boulder?
26,148 participating households as of August 2020
What is Denver Composts?
MRF
What is a Materials Recovery Facility?
Will be introduced in the 2021 state legislature
What is the plastic pollution bill?
This can be recycled on average 5-7 times before becoming too weak to recycle
What are paper products?
Has the highest residential diversion rate in CO
What is Loveland?
Will oversee and advise how 2A money should be allocated
What is the Sustainability Advisory Committee?
Separates steel and tin at a MRF
What are magnets?
Will help shape Pay-As-You-Throw (PAYT) in Denver
What is the PAYT Advisory Council?
Recycling this can save 74% of the energy it takes to produce
What is glass?
Has the highest industrial diversion rate in CO
What is Fort Collins?