CU recycling, now twice as nice

February 3, 2010 · Posted by in G.I.Y. 

A couple of CU seniors get serious about smashing down cardboard boxes at a recycling dumpster on campus | Daily Camera

The University of Colorado is making changes to its recycling program that will make participation twice as easy. (Actually, 2.5 times as easy, if you’re a math person.)

Now, recycling locations around CU still have five bins — which to a lot of us Boulderites seems, well, pretty old school. (Read more about they city’s single-stream recycling on BigGreenBoulder.) The  plan, according to an article in the Daily Camera, is to implement “dual-stream” recycling, which would cut the number of bins to two: one for paper and one for pretty much everything else.

Read more about it at DailyCamera.com.

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