Sustainability in Progress

Join Peak Alliance for a Sustainable Future at its monthly Sustainability in Progress (SIP) event.

Speakers will inform us about what’s happening in Colorado and the region around sustainable procurement and waste management.

Achieving significant solid and hazardous waste reduction requires buying products with the end in mind, for example does the product and packaging contain recycled content or is it recyclable?

Then handling the materials so that the products and packaging can be reused, repurposed, recycled or composted, biodegraded, or used as source material for new products rather than requiring disposal in a landfill or processing as toxic or hazardous waste.

The PPR2030 Material Management and Procurement Goal envisions that by 2030, the region has made significant progress toward a zero waste future.

Achieving this goal means:

• There is a 70% reduction in solid waste sent to landfills
• Household hazardous waste is minimized, managed, and properly disposed of, as reflected in a substantial increase in drops to regional hazardous household hazardous waste facilities.
• Individual, business, and government purchasing is guided by the tenets of reduce, reuse, recycle.
• All businesses and public institutions have developed and are choosing to follow sustainable procurement guidelines.