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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 Metal in the Roaring Fork Valley
What it's used for: new cans, valves, faucets, high-temperature alloys, steel beams, electrical wire, etc.
| Notes | Curbside Pickup | Basalt Recycling Center | Woody Creek Recycling Center | Pitkin Solid Waste Center | Aspen Rio Grande Recycling Center | Glenwood Recycling Center | South Canyon Landfill | |
| Aluminum cans | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Steel and tin cans | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
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Tinfoil and foil trays |
Clean and folded preferable | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Metal bottle caps | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Electronics--TVs, computers, cellphones, etc. | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | |
| Scrap Metal | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | |
Food for thought: "Recycling metals, like much of the recycling industry, is a dirty business...But it spares the earth the far larger insult of mining virgin metals, with all its attendant energy use and pollution. Extracting one ton of copper, for example, requires miners to move an additional nineteen tons of rock."...Elizabeth Royte in Garbage Land
Tip: Check out www.epeat.net, the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool, to find computers and monitors less damaging to the environment.