About Us

Recycle Colorado is a 501(c) 3, statewide nonprofit advancing circular economies & improving recycling across the state of Colorado. Our members share a vision to transform Colorado into a national leader in waste reduction, recovery, and diversion.

Vision: To transform Colorado into a national leader in waste reduction, recovery, and diversion.

Mission: To advance infrastructure, end markets, and state and local policies in waste reduction, recovery, and diversion.

As a membership-based nonprofit, Recycle Colorado is dedicated to creating a collaborative and respectful environment for all stakeholders, regardless of background or expertise. All members are expected to adhere to our principles that were developed to promote effective communication, collective problem-solving, and consensus-building. 

• 55% Private businesses (from locally serving to national corporations) 
• 25% Local governments (Cities, Towns, Counties)
• 13% Non-Profit entities (State & National)
• 7% Individuals and interested organizations

Our goal is to ensure more than 50% of Colorado’s current waste stream is diverted to reuse/remanufacturing or compost by advancing infrastructure, end markets and policies in waste reduction, recovery and diversion. We work towards that by:

• Crafting local and state policy
• Supporting the implementation of policies and programs
• Sharing knowledge and the latest developments in waste reductions, diversion, recycling and composting
• Highlighting best practices
• Hosting roundtables to address specific issues
• Facilitating networking between municipalities, legislators, businesses, industry leaders, and nonprofits

Recycle Colorado is an action-oriented and mission-driven organization that works on projects that are tangible, actionable and measurable related to infrastructure and end markets for material recovery, reuse and manufacturing. We have 5 primary mechanisms to achieve this:

• Councils
• Policy
• Round Tables
• Events
• Project