Evergreen Sustainability Alliance collects hard-to-recycle items

BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

June 24 was a perfect day to enjoy the beautiful summer weather – and to rid our houses of hard-to-recycle items.

Evergreen Sustainability Alliance hosted a recycling event at Evergreen Lutheran Church with car after car lined up to unload electronics, glass, paint, Styrofoam and more at various sta- tions throughout the parking lot.

ESA was formed in 2010 to improve recycling, composting, and the availability of local and organic foods in the foothills. Among its many accomplishments, it started and operates two community gardens, organized a composting pilot program, provides zero-waste services and a re ll station inside Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore, and does community education and outreach.

Most know of ESA when it hosts Christmas tree and Styrofoam recycling in January.

According to Kim Lauber, an ESA board member, the organization is all about reuse and sustainability, and the June 24 recycling event included companies that have been great partners.

For example, GreenSheen recycles paint and then donates it to Habitat for Humanity, while 3R Recycling Solutions takes anything that can be plugged in and pulls out anything that can be reused.

Glass to Glass based in Broomeld pulls glass out of trash, sorts it by color and sends it to bottling plants for recycling, and Golden Real Estate lls its truck with Styrofoam that it sends to EcoCycle in Boulder for processing, so it can be turned into other items.