Colorado Must Protect Access to Advanced Recycling Options: Let’s Work Together to Reduce Valuable Items in our Landfills
Did you know that Colorado diverted only 15.5% of its waste away from landfills in 2023 and that landfills generate methane emissions equivalent to the emissions of about 1 million gasoline-powered cars for a year?
We can help keep valuable items out of the landfill through advanced recycling and mass balance accounting. Mass balance is an environmentally safe, trusted, science-based tracking and accounting system used as part of advanced recycling processes for hard-to-recycle products, like film or plastic wrap. Mass balance tracks how much recyclable materials are put into complex manufacturing and supply chains and how much are reused and recycled out.