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Go Green Basalt
Who we are: A group of Basalt, Colorado citizens encouraging conservation and energy efficiency in our Roaring Fork Valley.
Recycling and Composting Paper in the Roaring Fork Valley
What it's used for: Newsprint, paperboard, food packaging, cartons, fertilizer
| Notes | Curbside Pickup | Basalt Recycling Center | Carbondale Compost Bin | Pitkin Solid Waste Center | Woody Creek Recycling Center | Aspen Rio Grande Recycle Center | Glenwood Springs Recycling Center | South Canyon Landfill | |
| Newspaper, shiny newspaper inserts | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes (CacaLoco) | |
| Magazines, catalogs*, shiny junk mail | Basalt Post Office has bins | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes (CacaLoco) |
| Phone books | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes (CacaLoco) | |
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Paperboard food packaging (if you can rip it) toilet paper rolls, egg cartons |
No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes (CacaLoco) | |
| Corrugated cardboard | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes (CacaLoco) | |
| Office Paper, Post-its | Staples, paper clips okay | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes (CacaLoco) |
| Books of any sort | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes (CacaLoco) | |
| Manila envelopes | No | No | Yes | Yes? | No | No | Yes | Yes (CacaLoco) | |
| Brown paper bags | same bin as corrugated cardboard | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes (CacaLoco) |
| Junk Mail | no need to open envelopes, address insets okay | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes (CacaLoco) |
* To cut down on the number of catalogs you receive, go to http://www.catalogchoice.org
Food for thought: "Goodstein liked to call the environmental savings of recycled paper 'the TOWEL effect'--for trees, oil, water, energy, and landfill. 'We benefit all of that," she said, meaning she saved trees from being turned into pulp, saved oil burned in logging operations, saved water by recycling the water used inside her recycling plant, used 25 percent of the electricity consumed in a virgin wood-pulping operation, and kept tons of paper a year out of landfills." ...Garbage Land, by Elizabeth Royte