Colorado
Thank you for visiting Earth911’s Colorado page. Below you can find more resources offered in your state, as well as recent news from your neck of the woods. If you’re looking for where to recycle in your area, please use the Earth911 recycling location search.
MARIE
posted on November 5th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
i want to learn more about recycling
Howard
posted on November 6th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Earth911 has some great content (http://earth911.com/recycling/start-recycling-program) that will help you start your own recycling program. In addition, check out the business link (http://business.earth911.com/) at the bottom of the homepage, too.
Oh, and they have a great definition and explanation of recycling, product stewardship, and how to’s when you click the green “Recycle to close the loop” link!
Conal
posted on December 11th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Wheel balancing weights are not getting the attention they deserve. Batteries are seen as a big problem because big numbers are highlighted, but lead batteries are 90% recycled, and the 180,000 tons of batteries that end up in landfills are mostly harmless zinc, with trace quantities of mercury, etc. being phased out of manufacturing. Use of rechargeable batteries is also limiting the problem.
Wheel weights are only(!) 40,000 tons per year, but nobody seems to know what percentage is recycled. There is not only a continual loss on roads, but my observation is that wheel re-balancers sweep away any old weights that aren’t convenient to pick up. Junked tires are another unknown contributor. Some places have switched to other types of weight, but slowly, and meanwhile thousands of tons of 90% lead are in road dust, in fragments along roads, and in the waterways they are swept into.
In the small town of Durango Colorado, I found 50 pounds, mostly along Main Ave., this Fall, and can still find a pound or two most days, especially in alleys and along curbs near tire stores. The amount that street sweepers have brushed into storm drains and road shoulders, or taken to landfills, is only to be imagined (this is a well-swept tourist town). Metals found in the river water have probably been blamed on the old mines upstream.
One lead weight being ground to dust by passing vehicles is worth more concern than a ton of batteries in a monitored landfill. If you see one, take it to the nearest tire store, then wash your hands.
maria
posted on January 17th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
I want to comment something and to ask a question! In the king sooper and in the walmart the markets can be carried for recyclar. My question is: alone the markets of the king sooper or the walmart are to recycle or can be carried any other.
Michael
posted on January 19th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
I run a very small recycling buisness in colorado springs colorado.I recycle old and broken computers/motherboards/hardrives/all cables/etc.. I can only take 2 or 3 monitors per pickup as long as you have some computers/and or parts to go along with it/reson being i pick up for free and i have to make something to pay for gas car insurence etc..
FREE PICKUP in colorado springs and fountain colorado bulk pickups considered elswhere
just e–mail me at spike65@comcast.net to arrange a pickup
HELP KEEP THESE ITEMS OUT OF OUR LANDFILLS!
Jergensen
posted on January 22nd, 2009 at 10:03 am
Where can I recycle computer discs?
susa
posted on January 28th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
where can I recycle lcd flatscreen tvs?
Barb
posted on March 4th, 2009 at 9:56 am
where can I recycle 78 records? or is it possible.
Linda Neely
posted on February 2nd, 2010 at 10:43 am
Where can I recycle monofilament line (fishing line) I hope to arrange for volunteers at Denver parks to clean up fishing line to save birds from getting tangled in it and losing limbs because of it.
Thanks.
Kandice
posted on February 18th, 2010 at 12:10 pm
I work for a roofing company near Denver and have heard that there is a shingle recycling center and they use the old shingles to make roads. Can anyone help me find a dump like this.
Thanks
Judith
posted on February 26th, 2010 at 9:03 am
Where can I recycle fluorescent tubes (T-8 grow lights)?
Karen Seder
posted on March 2nd, 2010 at 10:34 am
Colorado Springs now has a recycling company for roofing tear-off of Asphalt Shingle. Asphalt Recovery Specialists at 5565 E Bijou St, Colorado Springs, CO 80916 719-597-1963, will be opening their doors to all contractors and homeowners by April or May, but are test driving the start up with a selected number of contractors now.
Denise Moore
posted on March 10th, 2010 at 3:26 pm
Linda and Kandice:
Linda, go to purefishing.org to find out where to send the fishing line. They have a great program.
Kandice: Check out the “Roofs to Roads” program in Boulder.