Recycling Education, Training & Volunteer Opportunities

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For over a decade, we have been leading waste reduction and recycling education, training, and volunteer opportunities for Northern Colorado schools, businesses, and organizations. No matter your organizational needs, we have passionate, expert staff who are happy to answer questions and support the recycling requirements of our region.

Education for Schools:

Poudre School District and Thompson School District choose Republic Services as their trash and recycling hauler because we provide reliable service, engaging education programs, and are responsive to their needs.

We support both public and private schools to help them achieve their sustainability goals by providing primary, secondary, middle, and high school lesson plans that align the Departments of Educations Next Generation Science Standards. Classroom presentations are given on a variety of topics, including waste reduction, recycling, composting, natural resources, and plastics. Students learn the importance and impact of waste concerning environmental issues through our Recycling Simplified educational programming.

Services offered include site visits, staff training, waste audits, kick-off assemblies, monthly reports, and lunchroom monitoring. If you need the below resources in another format, please contact 970.980.6562.

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Business and Corporate Training:

If you are like most businesses in Northern Colorado, you need support in understanding the requirements for recycling. We provide custom programming for organizations of all types and sizes. Our most popular program is our “lunch-n-learn” where we provide a waste audit, a custom waste report, and a business presentation.

Waste management programs such as recycling and waste reduction are easy to engage employees to promote sustainability initiatives. This is because recycling reduces the need for natural resources to be extracted from the environment, keeps materials out of the landfill, and supports a local, circular economy that promotes American jobs.