A Word About Recycling with Ollie Maier

Last week we went to Canada, today we’ll go to someplace a little closer, Colorado.

A Resource Recycling newsletter article recently started with this statement: “With a local landfill nearing capacity, one mid-sized city in the Rocky Mountain region is planning for the future of its waste management system — and gearing up to tackle additional streams in the process.”

The city being addressed is Fort Collins, Colorado. It’s a college town with about 170,000 residents. Its high degree of curbside recycling participation has a diversion rate above the state’s average.