Composting

Compost Queen recently opened its new facility and headquarters at Back Gate Farm in north Fort Collins.

Compost Queen is bringing residential food composting to Fort Collins

Food waste disposal company Compost Queen recently opened its latest facility and headquarters in Fort Collins. Chris Wood, editor and publisher of BizWest, joined KUNC鈥檚 Nikole Robinson Carroll to discuss the company and its strategies.

A metal bin decorated with a historic black-and-white photo of a person leading a horse-drawn carriage on a sidewalk beside parked cars reads "recycle," "compost," and "landfill."

暗黑爆料

鈥楽ingle-use equals trash now:鈥� Big changes are coming to composting in Boulder

John Herrick, Boulder Reporting Lab

Starting on April 1, 2023, residents and businesses can only compost food, plant trimmings, yard waste and certain compostable bags, according to the compost recycler serving Boulder.

In this Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021, photo, Seth Viddal, who co-owns The Natural Funeral, stands behind a nearly completed human body composting vessel in Arvada, Colo. The vessel will be packed with wood chips and straw and will be able to compost a body in six months. About the size of a standard grave, the rectangular insulated wooden box is lined with waterproof roofing material and packed with wood chips and straw. Two large spool wheels on either end allow it to be rolled across the floor, providing the oxygenation, agitation and absorption required for a body to compost.

Arts & Life

Body Composting A 'Green' Alternative To Burial, Cremation

Associated Press

A Colorado company is hoping to usher in a new and more environmentally friendly era of mortuary science that includes the natural organic reduction of human remains. On Sept. 7, Colorado became the second state after Washington to allow human body composting, and Oregon will allow the practice next summer.

Environment

Larimer County鈥檚 Only Public Landfill Is Almost Full, With No Replacement 鈥� Yet

Matt Bloom

When it opened in 1963, the Larimer County Landfill had plenty of room to hold most of the trash produced by the residents of Estes Park, Fort Collins and鈥�