Tag: recycling
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Let’s let the market help solve Colorado River woes | Vince Bzdek
Negotiators for the seven states along the Colorado River Basin have had two years to reach an agreement on how to manage the river, which is at dangerously low water levels. They came up with zilch. That left solving the crisis in the hands of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which has been without an…
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Colorado Springs high schoolers harness AI to simplify recycling
Aryan Tuteja has long advocated for environmental awareness throughout his years at Discovery Canyon Campus High School. Last year, this advocacy became action. Tuteja, 18, and a group of students designed and presented a new sorting system for recycling everyday waste at their school during the 2025-26 school year. Utilizing artificial intelligence, their invention named…
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Discovery Canyon students harness AI to simplify recycling
Aryan Tuteja has long advocated for environmental awareness throughout his years at Discovery Canyon Campus High School. Last year, this advocacy became action. Tuteja, 18, and a group of students designed and presented a new sorting system for recycling everyday waste at their school during the 2025-26 school year. Utilizing artificial intelligence, their invention named…
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Waste plan for Colorado Springs sets goal to double recycling rate by 2045
Colorado Springs has released a long-term plan to more than double the amount of material that gets diverted from landfills to recycling. The Waste Diversion Action Plan, announced Tuesday, is the result of a study that Colorado Springs has worked on since the summer of 2023 through its WastelessCOS campaign. The study included sorting roughly…
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What can you do with the tree after Christmas? Recycling is an option
Christmas just got even more green in El Paso County. TreeCycle is offering a charitable alternative to tossing your Christmas tree after the holidays. For just $5 per tree, residents can drop off their trees at six locations throughout the county. Through the program, the county is offering an alternative that reduces tree waste, creates…
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Waste study, state programs to expand recycling access in Colorado Springs next year
By the end of 2026, Colorado will be running a program to dramatically expand recycling rates and access across the state. Colorado Springs recently completed a study to see what improvements the city can make on that front. Colorado House Bill 22-1355 established a program that charged fees to the biggest producers of recycling in…
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Colorado Springs man donates nearly 100,000 aluminum tabs to charity — one beer at a time
A Colorado Springs man recently made a sizable, if somewhat unorthodox, donation to Ronald McDonald House. On Thursday, Roger Wertheimer drove to the temporary home for families of critically ill children and dropped off a collection that took more than a decade to build, with a little help from his friends: a haul of aluminum…
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Are faithful household recyclers in Colorado truly helping the planet? Maybe
When you drop an empty milk jug, soda can, pickle jar or cardboard box into a recycling bin, will it make its way to a processing center and be reborn as carpeting, a beer bottle or a coat? Maybe. Or maybe not. There’s no tracking method to determine whether an item marked for recycling is…
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Are faithful household recyclers in Colorado truly helping the planet? Maybe
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save When you drop an empty milk jug, soda can, pickle jar or cardboard box into a recycling bin, will it make its way to a processing center and be reborn as carpeting, a beer bottle or a coat? Maybe. Or maybe not. There’s no tracking…
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BIDLACK | What the country really needs is a Green Manhattan Project
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save [inline_image src=”aHR0cHM6Ly9ibG94aW1hZ2VzLm5ld3lvcmsxLnZpcC50b3dubmV3cy5jb20vZ2F6ZXR0ZS5jb20vY29udGVudC90bmNtcy9hc3NldHMvdjMvZWRpdG9yaWFsLzAvNTMvMDUzNjE4MTEtYjQxMS01MGQ3LWFhM2QtMjQyZGQ0ZGU2YWYyLzVkYjA3NjFhNmU2YzMuaW1hZ2UuanBn” alt=”SGFsIEJpZGxhY2s=” caption=”SGFsIEJpZGxhY2s=”] Hal Bidlack I hate it when this happens — I find myself mostly in agreement with the Colorado Springs Gazette’s March 28 editorial, though not entirely. The Gazette’s op/ed page tends to run to the,…