Guided tours of Boulder County
Recycling Center
FREE TOURS
 and
NEW EXHIBITS
Are you curious about what goes on inside the Boulder County Recycling
Center? Come for a guided tour of the Boulder County Recycling Center,
1901 63rd Street, Boulder.
Tours take place the first Wednesday of every month from 2 - 3 p.m.
Guided Tour Dates:
Tour begins at 2 p.m. and lasts 1 hour. FREE.
- September 3, 2008
- October 1, 2008
- November 5, 2008
- December 3, 2008
Watch a short video about how the processing center works, tour the
facility and have an expert available to answer all your waste reduction
questions.
For more information, contact Jennifer at 720-564-2242 Self-Guided Tours:
Self-guided tours may be taken during open hours of the recycling
center: Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (excluding holidays). The sorting lines shut down
daily around 3 p.m., so come before that time if you want to see the
fast-action of the workers sorting items.
Check out the Boulder County Recycling Center’s new educational
exhibits, designed specifically for people wanting to take a self-guided
tour. Learn how cans, bottles, jars and paper are separated and sorted
so they can be shipped to places across the country to be made into
something new.
The first phase of new exhibits includes a kiosk that features an
award-winning video of the recycling center and a close-up look at its
operations. A new video to explain the new single-stream recycling
equipment will be produced and installed upon completion of the
installation of the new single-stream recycling equipment (fall 2008).
Another exhibit focuses on the natural resources used to make common
materials such as soda cans and plastic bottles and the environmental
benefits of recycling these items. The second phase of new exhibits will
be installed in fall/winter 2008 after the facility is
retrofitted for single-stream recycling. |
