News Release

Nederland Recycling Expands: Paperboard, and Phone Books Now Accepted in the "News Plus" Bin

3 February 2003

Nederland residents have asked for it, now they’ve got it. Boulder County is making recycling easier for Nederland residents by expanding the local Recycling Drop-off Center to accept more types of paper recyclables. Now residents can recycle paperboard and phone books at the Nederland Drop-off Center.

Even better, these papers don’t have to be sorted into different categories; they can be mixed together and recycled with newspaper, magazines, catalogs, office paper and opened mail-all in the bin marked "News Plus."

Guidelines for the newly expanded "News Plus" bin are as follows:

• Newspapers and Newspaper Inserts (NO bags or strings)
• Magazines & Catalogs
• Office Paper & Opened Mail, including: 
  • Copy/printer paper
  • White and pastel colored paper and envelopes (labels, stamps, and windows on envelopes okay)
  • Greeting cards
  • FAX paper
  • Brochures (glossy okay)
  • Stationery and letters
  • Manila or pastel colored file folders
• NEW! Paperboard materials such as cereal boxes, shoe boxes, and gift boxes (Remove bags from boxes, NO wrapping paper, paper towels, or tissue paper.)
• NEW! Phone books

  It is not necessary to remove paper clips, tape or staples.

  Residents are asked to open all mail to remove all items listed as a NO below:

  NO stickers, "neon" fluorescent or dark colored non-glossy papers (glossy papers of any color are okay), sheets of address labels, Kraft (orange/brownish) envelopes, cardboard, cereal-box type material, food containers, bags of any kind, plastic or trash.

  For more information on recycling at the Nederland Drop-off Center (located at County Rd. 128, East of the Peak to Peak Hwy.) or at other recycling centers, call the Boulder County Resource Conservation Division at 720-564-2224, or Eco-Cycle at 303-444-6634.