Santa's got a brand-new bag, and Compost Colorado wants to help fill it with organic waste from Denver.
To close the carbon loop that dead-ends at the landfill, city officials are changing the economic incentive used to encourage waste diversion. Starting with the new year, the city will charge residents for the amount of trash they send to landfills, providing free, weekly recycling and compost services and doubling the number of recycling and composting routes a month. The more you send to the landfill, the more you pay.
Over 100 miles of dump trucking are currently required to complete CoCo’s waste cycle. That doesn't please Fussell or many other people working in sustainability around Denver, who are trying to make composting for large portions of the metro area economically and ecologically sound. If Denver is going to divert 70 percent of solid waste by 2032, as its climate goals suggest, it's going to need many more facilities to work with. And Compost Colorado could be the first in the city.
But now time is short. The city needs to rezone the land to allow for the project, and the Denver Department of Mass processing plants struggle with contaminated compost — with plastics, glass and other hazardous materials that end up in the mix of tens of thousands of residential and business buckets, bins and dumpsters. Seven months ago, A1 Organics began rejecting contaminated compost and sending it to the landfill. “This is a very complex challenge,” says Clinton Sawyer, marketing manager for A1. “The easiest way to remove contamination from the stream is at the smallest volume.
Two blocks away, there is a metal recycling facility on the Platte River. “You walk over there, you’ll see a bunch of mangled cars leaching all their heavy metals right into the river,” Fussell says. Nearby is Alt Recycling, another trash transfer center that leads to “little bits of micro and macro plastics being blown around every day all over Washington Street and into the river,” he adds.
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