When Denver’s largest compost provider announced last year that it would no longer accept paper products and takeout containers, many compost operations throughout the Front Range came to a grinding halt, including the one ran by the Auraria Sustainability Campus Program.
The tri-institutional program, which works in collaboration with Metropolitan State University of Denver, Community College of Denver and the University of Colorado Denver, developed an innovative solution: Bring all composting in-house.
Officially unveiled Sept. 25, the new processing facility is the only closed-loop system at a higher-education institution in Colorado.
