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Recycling Data Collection and Reporting – A Statewide Conversation

Join with Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) representatives and community stakeholders April 1 to discuss issues related to recycling data collection and reporting.

CAFR announces its 2010 membership drive

All current members of CAFR are challenged to recruit their peers, competitors, and other interested business and/or government entities with a stake in the recycling industry to join CAFR. A cash reward is being offered to those current members that are successful in recruiting new members.

CAFR’s own 3R Ramblers–recycling the best of the oldies!–will perform June 7 at the Summit for Recycling

Take the shuttle to the Steamboat Springs Community Center for CAFR’s Monday-night fundraising gala and join us for an evening of fun, food, and entertainment.

‘Summit for Recycling’ conference to feature keynote speakers Jim Evanoff, Carl Steidtmann, and Jerry Powell at the Sheraton Steamboat Resort June 6-8

The Colorado Association for Recycling will hold the 21st annual ‘Summit for Recycling’ conference June 6-8 at the Sheraton Steamboat Resort in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The conference and exhibition is designed to support recycling professionals and individuals interested in recycling with tools, resources, and information that will help them in their efforts to advance recycling.

HB10-1333: Green Jobs CO Training Pilot Program

03/03/2010 House Third Reading Passed

Recycling Resources Economic Opportunity grant fund applications due March 3

This will be the third year for RREO grant funding; approximately $1.1 million is expected to be available in the fiscal year 2011 RREO grant cycle to fund multiple projects of one year in duration. Please be advised that this grant program is scheduled to sunset on July 1, 2010. See C.R.S. § 25-16.5-106.7(8). The grant funding for this RFA is contingent upon the repeal of the sunset provision; if the sunset is not repealed, the program will end on June 30, 2010, and the new grants selected through this RFA process will not be funded.

HB10-1052: Recycling Resources Economic Opportunity Fund

02/04/2010 Introduced In Senate – Assigned to Local Government and Energy

HB10-1018: Increased authority to regulate waste tires

02/02/2010 House Committee on Transportation and Energy Refer Amended to Appropriations

SB10-038: The “Organic Certification Act”

02/01/2010 Introduced In House – Assigned to Agriculture, Livestock, and Natural Resources

SB10-048: Regulation of the purchase of commodity scrap metals

02/24/2010 Senate Third Reading Passed