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What’s Working: Where a company that develops cancer tests, other startups are finding funding in Colorado

by Tamara Chuang 4:58 AM MDT on Jun 3, 202310:47 AM MDT on Jun 5, 2023

It’s the state’s Advanced Industries program, which has provided $128 million in grants to early-stage companies in the past decade. So, what do taxpayers get out of it?

Posted inEnvironment

Microplastic shards plague every Colorado river. Here’s where — and how — they get there.   

by Michael Booth 3:08 AM MDT on May 30, 202310:31 AM MDT on May 30, 2023

New study samples 16 waterways and finds shredded plastic in every one. Is help on the way?

Posted inEnvironment

The government will pay you $30 an hour to sort through Telluride’s trash in the name of social science

by Nancy Lofholm 4:26 AM MST on Feb 24, 20237:26 AM MST on Mar 7, 2023

Picking through what’s left behind by high-season tourists will help towns in San Miguel County figure out how to change what people toss and why

Posted inEnvironment

How to make the right ethical decisions when recycling and reusing as Colorado pushes for clean energy

by Michael Booth 3:08 AM MST on Jan 31, 20235:11 PM MST on Jan 31, 2023

We asked recycling and reuse experts to take on a reader’s dilemma about retiring perfectly good fossil fuel-powered machinery.

Posted inOpinion Columns

Opinion: New state bag law will benefit the environment and our health

Ryan Call by Ryan Call 1:30 AM MST on Jan 7, 20235:39 PM MST on Jan 6, 2023

Plastic shopping bags defy easy recycling and break down into microparticles that end up in our bodies.

Posted inEnvironment

Will Denver pick up and compost my Christmas tree? Not anymore. 

by Michael Booth 3:10 AM MST on Jan 5, 20238:17 AM MST on Jan 5, 2023

You can’t just toss your tree in a Denver alley to be composted anymore. Haul it yourself, or it goes to the dump.

Posted inEnvironment

How will Colorado’s new bag fee impact your life? Just look to the cities that already have bag charges.

by Michael Booth 3:10 AM MST on Dec 22, 20228:33 AM MST on Dec 23, 2022

As the state follows many local communities with a 10-cent plastic fee on Jan. 1, and a ban in 2024, conservationists count up the benefits.

Posted inOpinion Columns

Opinion: Instead of banning plastic bags, let’s invest in making plastic bags biodegradable

by Adriana Bassett 1:30 AM MST on Nov 22, 20227:10 PM MST on Nov 21, 2022

Paper bags have higher environmental costs than plastic.

Posted inEnvironment

Denver recycling already struggling before major strain of expansion, audit says 

by Michael Booth 3:47 AM MST on Nov 18, 20223:57 PM MST on Nov 17, 2022

City Auditor cites major staffing gaps, aging truck fleet and other problems he says threaten rollout of pay-as-you-throw waste plan.

Posted inEnvironment

Colorado prepares to “mine” key materials from the recycling bin ahead of new law taking effect in 2026

by Michael Booth 4:08 AM MST on Nov 17, 202210:29 AM MST on Nov 18, 2022

New laws are set to move the needle on the state’s “abysmal” recycling rate of only 16%, advocates and industry leaders say

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