Study: Foothills mall redevelopment diverts 76,000 tons of waste from landfill

FORT COLLINS —More than 76,000 tons of waste generated by the redevelopment of the Foothills shopping mall in Fort Collins was diverted from the landfill, according to an independent report by the Institute for the Built Environment at Colorado State University.

The study was a collaboration with the city, the mall developers and CSU, said Joy Wagner, Sustainable Building Associate at the Institute for the Built Environment. “We assisted by auditing and verifying the diversion efforts to ensure the developer met the city’s reuse and recycling requirements,” she said.

The recycling/reuse effort was a condition of…