Calendar of Events

11:00am to 12:30pm MST

Biodegradeable Plastics 101

Tour the Angel of Shavano Recycling facility and meet the CAFR Board of Directors. Contact Amy Randell for more information.

Salida, Colorado

Conference Highlights Include:
* Operating organic waste diversion systems in cold climates
* How to work with limited access to markets from rural communities
* Designing systems to easily integrate into existing infrastructures
* Creating models that address regulatory compliance

Jackson, Wyoming

11:00am to 2:00pm

Find out about new options for recycling and diversion and how they can help you reduce costs, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase jobs, and make your citizens happy.

Download a printable flyer

To register, click here or contact Amy Randell with the following information for each attendee: 1) Name, 2) Affiliation, 3) Phone number and 4) E-mail

Broomfield, Colorado

11:00am to 12:30pm MST

Sustainable Product Outlook

11:00am to 12:30pm MST

Source Reduction – A Vision for a Zero Waste America

CANCELLED

11:00am to 12:30pm MST

School Chemical Cleanout

RecycleMania is a friendly competition and benchmarking tool for college and university recycling programs to promote waste reduction activities to their campus communities. Over a 10-week period, starting January 18, schools report recycling and trash data which are then ranked according to who collects the largest amount of recyclables per capita, the largest amount of total recyclables, the least amount of trash per capita, or have the highest recycling rate.

5:00pm

The application for the six open positions on the PPAB Assistance Committee is now available online: http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/el/p2_program/acappl.html.

Applications & a current resume are due by June 12, 2009 at 5:00pm. Those currently serving two-year terms must submit a new application and current resume to be considered.

The four programs are:
1) Source Reduction Assistance (Pollution Prevention) Program;
2) Strategic Agricultural Initiative;
3) Resource Conservation Challenge (RCC) Grant Initiative; and
4) School Chemical Cleanout Campaign (SC3) (All projects under this area must be performed on tribal lands in Region 8.)

It's never BIN easier ... to recycle! Need beverage container recycling bins for your local park, school, office or special event? The Coca-Cola/NRC Recycling Bin Grant Program supports local community recycling programs by providing selected grant recipients with containers for the collection of beverage container recyclables in public settings. Selected grant recipients will receive actual recycling bins instead of funding.

The Advanced Technology Grant (ATG) Program is intended to fund research that will increase or improve recycling techniques and technology; create marketable uses for discarded materials, including but not limited to, strategies pertaining to waste tires; address problems caused by inappropriate disposal of solid waste materials, including but not limited to, waste tire stockpiles; and, make use where possible of the research capacities of Colorado institutions of higher education.

In the wake of storms, floods, tornadoes, fires, and other disastrous events, communities must determine how to quickly perform waste clean-up operations. While much debris may be recyclable or re-usable, time may be too short to allow for responders to separate recoverable materials from waste that is sent for landfill disposal. Counties and local emergency planning groups are encouraged to apply for grants, not to exceed $7,500, that will be used to develop community-specific or area-specific debris recovery plans. This grant opportunity is meant to support ongoing efforts by the State of Colorado’s Division of Emergency Management to bring attention to the importance of debris management planning.

Since 2002, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has provided financial assistance to state environmental agencies through the EPA State Innovation Grant program to help them test innovative approaches to improving results in permitting programs. Using the EPA grant program, states have tested and implemented a variety of new ideas to improve permit compliance and integrate voluntary stewardship approaches.

The objectives of the Solid Waste Management Grant Program are to: 1. Reduce or eliminate pollution of water resources in rural areas; 2. Improve planning and management of solid waste sites in rural areas.

NOTE: Rural areas are defined as any area not in city or town with a population in excess of 10,000, according to the latest decennial census of the United States.

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (department), working through its Pollution Prevention Advisory Board (board) and the Assistance Committee (committee) to the board, requests applications for the recycling rebate monies in the Recycling Resources Economic Opportunity (RREO) Fund.

Visit CDPHE's Web site for more information: http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/el/p2_program/rebates.html

The Recycling Resources Economic Opportunity Act (the Act) created the RREO Grant Program that is intended to fund implementation projects that promote economic development through the productive management of recyclable materials that would otherwise be treated as discards. Projects that meet this goal may be designed to implement source reduction, recycling, beneficial use/re-use, anaerobic digestion, or composting, for a wide variety of materials.