What is Reuse
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Food Service Providers with reusable serviceware and to-go containers
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- Deliver Zero
- r.World
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- Craigslist
- Facebook Marketplace
- Depop
- Poshmark
- The Real Real
- eBay
Reuse Hub for Boulder and Beyond
From Thrift to Refill: Discover Local Businesses Leading the Shift from Single-Use to Reuse
Eco-Cycle and the City of Boulder partnered to create a hub of resources and information for reuse in Boulder County and beyond. Their interactive map highlights businesses—including refill groceries, repair services, thrift shops, and secondhand stores, used furniture stores, and restaurants with reusable to-go containers—that are helping reimagine community systems to make reuse the new norm and disposables a thing of the past.
Denver Reuse Business Directory
Discover reuse-friendly businesses in Denver through the Reuse Business Directory. You’ll find places to repair, rent, or buy used items all while supporting local.
In 2023, these Denver reuse businesses employed over 3,000 people and contributed $540 million to the economy annually. They are making a huge impact on Denver, and we are making it easier for Denverites to access their services! The directory is also available in Spanish.
Upstream Solutions Business Directory
Upstream Solutions provides a catalog of reuse innovators operating worldwide on their website. These systems and services provide ways for consumers to obtain products in returnable, reusable, or refillable packaging.
Zero Waste Event Options
It seems like every week there is a fun event or festival happening somewhere in Colorado. What makes an impact is when venues and event producers utilize local zero waste teams to properly divert the waste produced. Check out the options you can choose from!
Scraps provides zero-waste services for events in and around the Denver metro area. We can work with events of all sizes – from a small private office party, to a ticketed beer fest, or multi-day outdoor music and food festival with tens of thousands of attendees.
Scraps help you source 100% compostable materials for your event, and we guarantee responsible disposal of compostables to a compost facility, recycling to a recycling facility, and the little trash you’ll have to the landfill. Scraps only works with events that agree to adhere to our strict zero-waste policies, and who share it with their vendors (food trucks, etc.) as well, to ensure full adherence to a zero-waste protocol. The policies require that all vendors who are producing any disposables only bring approved compostable items to the event. (Scraps will make exceptions for aluminum cans and glass bottles for beverages – we will not work with events that allow single-use plastics.)
Walking Mountains provides education and outreach about recycling and composting while supporting special events with their environmental sustainability initiatives. The Walking Mountains Zero Waste program is available to special events in the Eagle Valley on a contract service basis. Each event is unique and requires planning and coordination with event staff and vendors to ensure success. We will provide expertise, coordination, trained staff and volunteers, and so much more to ensure each event is a sustainability success.
In 2025, Walking Mountains worked 127 days of events and diverted 72,888 pounds of waste from the landfill through recycling and composting, with a total diversion rate of 85.41%.
The Eco-Cycle Events Department has transitioned to an equipment-provisioning rental service. Eco-Cycle’s expanded inventory of Zero Waste Events equipment for rental includes a robust selection of offerings such as individual x-frames and multi-bin x-frame systems; recycling and trash bags; signage and mounting hardware, and more!
Colorado Ordiences
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Town of Breckenridge
On March 28, 2023, the Breckenridge Town Council took a major step toward its material management goals with the passage of Ordinance 12-23 that phases out certain single-use plastics from food serviceware and beverage containers.
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