After a heated debate on the merits of maintaining a long-term contract with Waste Management of Colorado Inc. -- without competitive bidding -- a Denver City Council committee approved an additional ...

Waste Management sanitation roots extend back to the late 1800s, when the grandfather of one of their founders started collecting trash in a small wagon. Their founders wanted to serve their community ...

Bruin Waste, a Colorado-based waste management company, is building a recycling facility in partnership with the city of Grand Junction. The firm operates in Montrose, Mesa, Garfield, San Miguel, ...

Compost Colorado sits just north of the I-70/I-25 interchange, where the South Platte River squeezes beneath the state’s two largest highways, in a historic neighborhood at the nexus of environmental ...

Rust-colored piles of mine waste and sun-bleached wooden derricks loom above the historic Colorado mountain town of Leadville—a legacy of gold and silver mines polluting the Arkansas River basin more ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. It might be surprising to discover that, despite Colorado's ...

DENVER (CBS4) - A grassroots organization is hoping to bring better waste management to the city of Denver. After garnering more than 17,000 signatures, the group Waste No More secured a spot on the ...

Jack Lowenstein is a digital media producer and assignment desk editor with CBS Colorado. At the news desk in Denver, Jack takes pride partnering with public servants every day to confirm necessary ...

Here’s the dirty truth about “compostable” cups and takeout containers distributed in Colorado: They’re probably going to the dump. On July 1, a new Colorado law took effect to address the problem by ...

A large trash fire was reported at a waste management facility Sunday night, according to a tweet from the Colorado Springs Fire Department. Firefighters worked a fire at the Waste Management building ...

Retailers and manufacturers have strong incentives to minimize waste, as they operate on tight margins and possess resources to invest in waste reduction technologies. These sectors benefit from ...

EH&S is responsible for overseeing general university compliance with the Biowaste Program. The waste generator is responsible for identifying infectious and non-infectious biological waste that they ...