Recycle Colorado

07/05/2026

‼️REMINDER ‼️ Book Your Stay for the Summit‼️

The Denver Marriott Westminster is the venue for the Summit and where there are rooms currently being held for our guests until MAY 11TH! After this date, our special pricing and blocked off rooms get opened up to the public.

You begged for more networking and connection building, so make it happen by staying where your fellow attendees will be.

You never know what kind of opportunity you will run into in the hotel lobby during your stay...

Book your Summit Stay: https://book.passkey.com/event/51207523/owner/14285164/home

07/05/2026

Happy International Compost Awareness Week! 🏔️♻️🦝🌱

🤎 The Colorado Composting Council is taking to social media this week to get your feedback on some exciting ideas they have and share what members are doing to celebrate the awareness week! Be sure to follow them and check out their posts on Instagram, Facebook and...
🤎 The Colorado Composting Council created their own LinkedIn, give them a follow: https://www.linkedin.com/company/colorado-composting-council/
🤎 The Recycle Colorado girls participated in Boulder County’s ICAW Social Media celebration.
🤎 COCC Members received a proclamation from the governors office, naming May 3rd-9th, 2026 is Compost Awareness Week!
🤎 COCC members will be at CSU Spur “Spur in Bloom” event to spread compost love on May 9th.

07/05/2026

The moment you've all been waiting for... The winners from this year's student design contest:

♻️ Most Radical Recycling Hero: Harry's Colorado Clean Driver Bird
🏔️ Most Colorado: Royal's Penny the Colorado Pika
🤎 Coolest Composting Champion: James's Working Worm
🤩 Judges’ Choice: Sahithiqan's Cute Cleaning Raccoon
♻️ Most Radical Recycling Hero: Hazel's Recycling Horse Hero
🤎 Coolest Composting Champion: Ethan's Ballin Compost GOAT

Thank you all for your participation and love for our planet! We are already excited for next year!

06/05/2026

Happy International Compost Awareness Week!

Get up to speed on all things organics and prepare for the Recycle Colorado Policy Retreat with International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW)!

Check out The Local Composting Toolkit, and follow along this week to learn more!

https://ilsr.org/composting/local-composting-toolkit/?mc_cid=c61fbb233b&mc_eid=ce48e196ef

27/04/2026

24/04/2026

The final day to submit a nomination for our recycling and composting awards is TODAY! Submit your nominations asap!!!

A little butterfly told me that a few of his butterfly friends will be released in honor of our award recipients at this year's awards dinner hosted at the Butterfly Pavilion. Does that entice you? 😏🦋

Submit nomination for recycling or composting award: https://www.recyclecolorado.org/summit-for-recycling/

23/04/2026

That's right, YOU made Earth Day happen! 😎 From take back events to community cleanups, you showed what local impact can do. 🔋💪🚮👷🏽

We want to celebrate your dedication to the planet and your people! Share in the comments how you celebrated Earth Day👇

We’ll send you our Earth Week Impact Discount Code to the Summit for Recycling where we will keep the momentum going 🤑🏔️💚

22/04/2026

We asked Colorado Students to design a Colorado Eco-hero. They created some super neat designs!! Check them out to bring a smile to your lovely Earth Day! 💚

We had 89 total submissions for this year's contest. 🤩 Students were tasked with creating an eco-hero mascot that was represented by a native Colorado animal. We received submissions that included:
🦝 Trash sorting raccoons
🐿️ Litter critters
🐏 Reusing rams
🐻 Trash protecting bears
🪱 Wiggling compost worms
🦅 Tons of eagles squawking about recycling and keeping Colorado clean!

Selected winner's art will be used to create stickers to be shared far and wide with their classmates and our members. 🌎

Interested in helping to select the winners? Leave a comment of your fav animal! ⬇️🦋

Want to receive some super cool eco-hero stickers? Join us at the Summit where we will have a swag swap table to redecorate your water bottle or computer! ♻️

16/04/2026

16/04/2026

Want to take action at Longmont Earth Day? Join our Zero Waste Team for a Community Clean up!

Join us at Longmont Earth Day on Saturday the 18th, 10am-2pm, Timberline PK-8 School.

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14/04/2026

Come one, come all to the conference that connects hazardous materials managers with waste diversion and sustainability professionals. You won't want to miss the Rocky Mountain NAHMMA conference!

🏔️ April 28-29 at the Summit County South Branch Library 🏔️

Sessions will cover relevant Colorado and beyond topics. Check them out:
🔋 The Dangers of Lithium-lon Batteries
👷🏽 How a Mill Levy Can Help Fund Your HHW Program
🌲 Above the Treeline: HHW Challenges and Solutions in Mountain Regions
🤩 All We Do Is Win: Tell Us About Your Successes
🏔️ Beyond the Diversion Goal: Data, Constraints, and the Future of Diversion at the Pitkin County Solid Waste Center
🚙 Shift into Sustainability: Colorado's New Auto Container Recycling Program
♻️ Wonderful One-Day Collection Events

But that's not all...You get a full day of tours!
🏔️ Summit County Resource Allocation Park (SCRAP)
🦅 Eagle County Solid Waste & HHW Facility
🐻 Walking Mountains Science Center
🌲 Frisco Transfer Center

REGISTER: https://nahmma.starchapter.com/meetinginfo.php?id=243&ts=1774286597