July 13, 2001

Recycling center puts energy-saving ideas to work

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BOULDER ? Boulder County Recycling is practicing what it preaches.

A new 51,200-square-foot processing center and administrative offices opened in early July at 63rd Street north of Arapahoe Road, said Jeff Callahan, executive director of the Boulder County Recycling and Composting Authority. The new center will replace the Eco-Cycle processing facilities in Martin Street in Longmont and on Pearl Street in Boulder.

“Both (the Longmont and Boulder locations) are pretty close to or are over capacity for what they should handle,” Callahan said.

The building itself is an object lesson in recycling. The Boulder Energy Conservation Center helped research methods of using…

Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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