CDPHE Award

Since its inception in 1994, the Waste Reduction Advisory Committe has been active in the community with many beneficial and innovative programs. From 1994 to the present, these include but are not limited to:

• Purchase of shredder/chipper for Parks Department
• Solar lighting for Recreation Center
• Education kits for Lafayette schools
• "Leaved It A Lawn" program to encourage grass recycling
• Compost bin sale (500 bins sold)
• Hwy 287 clean-up (Baseline to South Boulder Road)
• Adopt-an-Open Space (Coal Creek Trail at Avalon)
• Computer Recycling Roundup - 21,500 pounds
• Christmas Tree Recycling
• Household Hazardous Waste collection (8.61 tons collected in 2001)
• Zero-Waste at community festivals

In 2005, WRAC received received the Bronze Environmental Achiever Award from the Colorado Environmental Leadership Program sponsored by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

The Waste Reduction Advisory Committee would like to thank the Boulder County Community Outreach Program for their valuable assistance in helping us achieve our success in reducing waste at community events.  Working together, we have turned community community events into waste reduction events.

Grants from Boulder County Community Outreach Program

1997 - $6,000 for environmental education

1998 - $5,639 for Lafayette/Louisville drop-off center

2001 - $12,000 for Lafayette/Louisville drop-off center

2003 - $2,700 for recycle bins used at Lafayette festivals

2004 - $2,500 for Eco-Cycle Services for Peach Festival and supplemental cost of compostable cutlery

2005 - $1,689 for waste reduction outreach and education

2006 - McStain Community grant of $1,600 to Eco-Cycle for WRAC to promote the 2006 Peach Festival as a zero-waste event

2007 - $1,500 for Zero-Waste services at Peach Festival

2009 - $3,468 for Zero-Waste station modifications