
Eco-Cycle Don't let the holidays get you in a waste rut... check out our Zero Waste Holiday Guide! It's packed with ideas for eco-friendly gift giving, 10 ways to green your holiday and local holiday-item recycling collections.
Source: ecocycle.org
We have more answers. The following short videos offer hands-on demonstrations to help with some of your toughest holiday recycling questions.

Eco-Cycle The Eco-Cycle Times is here! Read our room-by-room guide to Zero Waste living, how to compost in the winter, curbside recycling's Scuzzy Six contaminants, how local officials are making Boulder County a Zero Waste model + much more.
Source: ecocycle.org
The Eco-Cycle Times has been published since Eco-Cycle's inception in 1976. This information-packed newsletter is one of the organization’s primary outreach and education tools and is printed twice a year, in the spring and fall. ...

Eco-Cycle Another Q for our eco-stars—What's your biggest Zero Waste challenge? Example: "My favorite cereal comes in a non-recyclable bag. Dang!" and so on.

Eco-Cycle wants to know... what's a current environmental issue you'd love to see our director tackle in the next Eco-Cycle Times?

Eco-Cycle One of our favorite Zero Waste supporters is under attack! Annie Leonard's video "The Story of Stuff" -- a quick and insightful look at the underside of our consumption habits -- was attacked on Glenn Beck's cable and radio shows yesterday. Please watch and share this important video and check out Annie Leonard's blog for her response.
Source: www.thestoryofstuff.com
From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. ...

Eco-Cycle We're working on the upcoming issue of the Eco-Cycle Times and need your help! We'll be covering composting--curbside and backyard--and are wondering, what would you like to see us include? Are you looking for tips? What are your composting challenges?

Eco-Cycle What a Zero Waste victory! City Council voted to buy a new (and very much needed) site for CHaRM and ReSource. Soon enough, the Center for Hard-to-Recycle Materials will no longer be hard to find.
Source: www.dailycamera.com
The Boulder City Council on Tuesday night approved the $6 million purchase of a 10-acre site at 6400 Arapahoe Ave. to expand the city’s recycling operations — and voted to raise the trash tax to its maximum voter-approved levels to pay for it.

Eco-Cycle Boulder City Council meeting tonight @ 6 p.m. to discuss the trash tax and the potential new site of ReSource and CHaRM (a.k.a. our wonderful Zero Waste facilities that will help us reach our goal of Zero Waste by 2025!). You can also watch it live on Channel 8.

Eco-Cycle Local entrepreneur brings curbside composting and hard-to-recycle collection to Lyons! (scroll down on site for article)
Source: www.lyonsrecorder.com
JJ Booksh-Asnicar has just come from a practice session, preparing for her upcoming aerial dance performance at the 11th Annual Aerial Dance Festival at Colorado University's campus in Boulder. Actually, ...

Eco-Cycle We have 149 fans... hooray! Who will be lucky 150?

Eco-Cycle Scientists get emotional as they encounter the giant garbage patch in the Pacific
Source: www.ktvu.com
A crew of scientists who sailed away from the Bay Area has had an amazing and emotional experience since reaching a vortex of floating plastic trash in the Pacific Ocean this week, an organizer of the mission said from the boat.

Eco-Cycle Reason #344 to go for Zero Waste...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Marine scientists from California are venturing this week to the middle of the North Pacific for a study of plastic debris accumulating across hundreds of miles (km) of open sea dubbed the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch."

Eco-Cycle ECO-FACT: Bottle recycling deposits greatly increase recycling participation rates, but only a few states offer them. Last spring, Rep. Ed Markey introduced a bill to set a 5-cent deposit on all beverage containers nationwide, but Nestle, which owns various water-bottling plants and brands, isn't letting it happen without a fight.
Source: www.parade.com
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