Waste Management, a leading waste management provider, announced the opening of its recycling facility in Sterling.
Located at 18211 Iris Dr., in Sterling, the new facility will enable the company to offer curbside single stream, commercial single stream and drop-off recycling in northeast Colorado.
This new facility is the result of the State of Colorado’s Department of Public Health and Environment Resources Economic Opportunity Fund Grant Program. The grant partially funded the construction of a new building to process recyclables at the WM site in Sterling.
The facility has the potential to give approximately 48,000 people in more than 17,500 households in the region access to recycling, with the potential to divert more than 3,750 tons of household recyclable material from the landfill per year.
The new facility is part of WM’s sustainable goals, which include increasing the volume of the recycled materials they process. WM manages nearly 15 million tons of recyclables a year nationwide and, with the help of Single Stream Recycling, the company expects that to triple that by 2020.
Commenting on this development, Sterling Mayor Heather Brungardt, said, “Not only will this facility bring more people to Sterling, to use its amenities, but it will also bring in new jobs as well and with those new jobs, it will create new business and with that new business it will help Sterling expand its workforce.”
Items that will be able to be recycled at this new facility include newspapers, aluminum foil and cans, cardboard (collapsed boxes), office paper and envelopes, paper cardboard dairy and juice containers and plastic bottles and containers, Nos. 1-7.
Plastic bags, construction materials, cassette tapes, spray paint, plastic or wax lined cups, organic waste, utensils, automotive waste batteries and shredded paper are not allowed, WM said.