Boulder County Board of County Commissioners awards $46,649 to 12 waste reduction programs as part of the Resource Conservation Division’s Community Outreach Program 2007.

For the past ten years, the Boulder County Resource Conservation Division has funded more than $742,000 towards educational or infrastructure programs within Boulder County and Broomfield County.

• Aerosol Spray Can Pollution Prevention $4,007
  
  Boulder County Environmental Health –Partners for a Clean Environment (PACE)

As a commercial sector, auto repair shops consume the largest amount of hazardous waste in the U.S. A portion of this waste is aerosol cans. To assist this sector, PACE will provide a reusable spray can, a bulk one-gallon container of a commonly used non-chlorinated cleaner and educational material to auto repair shops to achieve reduction and to demonstrate financial incentives to business.

• ReSource Transportation & Storage Trailers $5,000

Center for ReSource Conservation (CRC)

ReSource will use funds to purchase a semi-trailer to haul materials that ReSource receives but cannot sell, and would otherwise be part of Boulder County's waste stream, to ReSource's Ft Collins site or to American Indian reservations within 600 miles of Boulder.

• Peach Festival Zero Waste Services $1,500

City of Lafayette

The City of Lafayette will use funds to increase its waste diversion rate at the Peach Festival in August 2007 by working with Eco-Cycle for event planning and consulting, increased staffing for zero waste stations, and educating the public on zero waste concepts and practices.

• Louisville Recycles Program $2,080

City of Louisville

The City of Louisville will use funds to purchase both portable and permanent recycling-specific containers for its many special events that generate large amounts of material, and for parks and open space properties that do not yet have adequate recycling containers. The City of Louisville has been a strong supporter of recycling over the years and makes a concerted effort to provide easy-to-use recycling facilities at special events and throughout its parks and open space properties.

Colorado Interfaith Power and Light (CIPL)

CIPL will use funds for educational outreach targeting 100 community churches to encourage waste reduction, recycling and composting.

Eco-Cycle/Boulder County School Recycling and Environmental Education Program

Eco-Cycle/Boulder County School Recycling and Environmental Education Program will use funds to purchase reusable cloth sandwich wraps for the Litterless Lunch Project and to implement the Waste Free Lunch Contest. This will enable Eco-Cycle to implement the Litterless Lunch Project in at least 26 classrooms and the Waste Free Lunch contest in six schools, involving approximately 3,200 students and their families countywide.

Eco-Cycle/Boulder County School Recycling and Environmental Education Program

Eco-Cycle/Boulder County School Recycling and Environmental Education Program will use funds for 12 Growing Green Tours for 3rd - 5th grade students in Boulder County and Broomfield County public schools. These tours promote composting to participating students and their families, and encourage teachers to include composting in their curriculum.

Extras for Education

Extras for Education will use funds to purchase a cartage trailer for storage, transportation and delivery of thousands of items diverted from waste each year. Extras diverts re-usable items from probable disposal and distributes to local schools and non-profits.

Naropa University

Naropa University will use funds to move towards a Zero Waste Community by implementing a multi-part educational program that includes the creation of Zero-Waste station signs, developing training manuals and providing training to faculty, staff and students, holding a Community Forum on Zero Waste, and the creation of a recognition and rewards program for Zero-Waste Leaders on its three campuses.

Tara Institute of the Performing Arts

Tara Performing Arts High School is committed to earth stewardship and sustainability through its educational mission. Tara will use funds to purchase tools and supplies for ongoing maintenance of its composting program. The program will divert the daily food waste created from students, faculty and visitors from landfill to reusable matter.

Shepherd Valley Waldorf School

Shepherd Valley Waldorf School is committed to environmental stewardship by integrating the school's agricultural land and exceptional natural setting in our education and community programs. The integrative composting program will divert the daily food waste created by students, faculty and visitors from the landfill to reusable organic matter and is a natural part of Shepherd Valley's learning environment. Students, faculty and parents will research and build the compost bins using volunteer hours and in-kind services. The funds will be used to purchase tools and supplies for on-going maintenance of the composting infrastructure.

University of Colorado Recycling Services

CU Recycling will use funds to assist the University of Colorado in adjusting its recycling program to more closely align with the planned conversion of the Boulder County Recycling Center to single stream recycling. New container labels and signage as well as coordinated outreach campaign are needed to educate the campus community on these important changes. CU Recycling will educate its 8,500 employees on proper off-campus as well as on-campus recycling guidelines.

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