Caroline Eader

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Caroline Eader
www.zerowastetrips.com
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• Boulder Outlook Hotel
• Boulder County Recycling Center
• Eco-Products, Inc.
• CHaRM (Center for Hard to Recycle Materials)
• Zero Waste discussion with Eric Lombardi,
  Executive Director of Eco-cycle Inc. 
• City of Boulder Environmental Affairs Office
• Boulder County government Boulder Countys Zero
  Waste Resolution
• Western Disposal Inc.
• ReSource (A used building materials reuse
  facility)
• Boulder County Jail Compost center. 
• Eco-cycle's award-winning school recycling
  program
• University of Colorado at Boulder
• St. Julien Hotel Sustainability discussion and
  tour of a luxury hotel.
• Lunches - Zero Waste box lunches and/or dining
  at Zero Waste restaurants.
• Evenings - Recommendations provided for Zero
  Waste restaurants of your choice.

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• Boulder's first Zero Waste hotel

www.BoulderOutlook.com
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• Eric Lombardi, Executive Director of Eco-Cycle
  Inc.

www.ecocycle.org
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Eco-Products, Inc.

• Steve Kurowski,
• Marketing Manager
• for Eco-Products, Inc.,
• www.ecoproducts.com

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• Electronics
• Athletic shoes,
• Textiles, etc.
• 6 White Block Foam Packaging
• Big Durable 2 Plastics
• NEW! Bicycles and Bike Parts
• Books Manuals
• Toilets, Sinks and Urinals

www.ecocycle.org/charm/index.cfm
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Landfills are like black holes, where resources
go in and never come out as the world's
population explodes and its resource base
shrinks, we can't afford that. Eric
Lombardi Executive Director ofEco-Cycle
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www.ecocycle.org/charm/index.cfm
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Discussion with Eric, "If not an incinerator,
then what?"
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www.oldchicago.com

• Lunch at Old Chicago, a Zero Waste restaurant
• Meet with the restaurant manager tour the
  kitchen

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www.oldchicago.com
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• Policy discussion and tours
• Jonathon Koehn, Environmental Affairs Manager

http//www.ci.boulder.co.us/ 
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http//www.bouldercounty.org/recycling/
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• Will Toor, Boulder County Commissioner and former
  mayor of Boulder who was instrumental in the
  implementation of Boulder County's Zero Waste
  Resolution.
• Sustainability issues of Boulder County
• The role of government in promoting ZW concepts
  and programs
• http//www.boulderc
  ounty.org/newsroom/templates/?a1149z1

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• Hauler's regulations
• Business Practices
• Tour of composting operations, transfer stations,
  etc. 

www.westerndisposal.com.
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• Western Disposal, Inc.
• Bryce Isaacson, VP of Marketing and Sales and
  Gary Horton, President

www.westerndisposal.com
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• Used building materials reuse facility

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Spencer Villwock, Deputy Director for the Center
of Resource Conservation
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• Construction demolition waste takes up 25 -
  30 of area landfill space.
• ReSource accepts donations of reusable building
  materials and then resells them to the public at
  great prices.
• Everything at ReSource has been donated by
  homeowners, businesses, contractors or
  deconstruction experts. Because ReSource is a
  501c3 non-profit, donations are tax-deductible.
• ReSource promotes waste reduction through
  innovative landfill diversion programs.

www.resourceyard.org
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Boulder County Jail compost center http//www.nac
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• The program provides for the collection of
  recyclables from all 53,000 students and staff in
  85 Boulder Valley and St. Vrain Valley public
  schools (two districts).
• Educational presentations are given to over
  38,000 kindergarten through 12th grade students
  in approximately 1,400 Boulder and Broomfield
  County classrooms annually.

www.ecocycle.org/atschool/school_info.cfm
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• GREEN STAR SCHOOLS
• Launched in 2005
• Boulder County and Broomfield County schools are
  the first in the nation to move towards Zero
  Waste by addressing every aspect of each schools
  waste stream.
• Large scale composting of food waste and
  non-recyclable paper from the kitchen, cafeteria,
  classrooms, offices and bathrooms (paper towels)
  has cut participating schools trash by one
  third.
• Another third is diverted by the recycling
  program.

www.ecocycle.org/atschool/school_info.cfm
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• A Waste-Free Lunch campaign
• Extensive and ongoing training for staff and
  students is integral to the program.
• Currently, 17 schools are part of the program and
  more will be added each year.

www.ecocycle.org/atschool/school_info.cfm
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Ralphies Green Stampede

• 80-90 diversion
• No public trash cans
• 25 attended zero waste stations
• All recyclable or compostable packaging
• concession contract requirements (5 points)
• Portion control, bulk condiments, souvenir cups
• Finished compost returned to CU
• Fry oil refined locally
• Scoreboard visuals/press box announcements

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Campus Building Standardsdesign for recycling

• Recycling container space provided in
• offices
• copy/computer rooms
• vending areas, lounges
• classrooms
• storage rooms
• loading areas/outdoor storage
• Combination of litter recycling receptacles
• secured to the ground with a removable liner
• available at convenient points on campus
• Floor plans reviewed by Recycling Office prior to
  approval of plans

http//fm.colorado.edu/construction/standards/v200
7/arch/documents/appendix-7.pdf
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http//www.stjulien.com/pdf/initiatives.pdf
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• Zero Waste Box lunch at Chautauqua Park

www.dishgourmet.com
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www.folsomstreetcoffee.com
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Berry Best Smoothie Company
www.villageboulder.com/berrybest.html
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Caroline Eader
www.zerowastetrips.com
Thanks to Kai Hagen and the
University of Colorado for photo contributions.