Dive Brief:

• Property owners in Boulder, CO are on borrowed time. Within a year, all must have waste hauling and recycling services for themselves, but businesses have the most to do to comply with the soon-to-be-finalized law.
• Businesses in the city now must have recycling and composting, in order to comply with a proposed ordinance that received pre-approval from Boulder City Council. The ruling group is working to divert waste from landfills, and it expects the town’s businesses to do their part by providing space to separate trash, recyclables, and composting, and by teaching their employees to separate, recycle, and compost items at the business.
• Before it becomes law, the ordinance will need to be approved in a final vote by Boulder City Council at its June 16 meeting.

Dive Insight:

The city's soon-to-be-OK’d ordinance that governs waste, recycling, and composting is part of its zero-waste strategy. The plan is mean to increase the amount of waste diverted from landfills. The proposed law will require all city events to be zero-waste, and it also requires trash haulers to offer recycling and composting to residential customers.