Longmont’s sustainability vision calls for the stewardship of environmental resources. From a waste perspective, this means generating less waste, diverting as much waste as possible from landfills, responsibly planning for managing waste, and adopting new technologies and practices that reduce costs and impacts on the community and environmental health. Consistent with this vision, Longmont’s Zero Waste resolution, updated and adopted in 2022, sets the City’s ambition to pursue zero waste as a long-term goal.

Citywide Waste Diversion

Through the Sustainability Plan, Waste Services and the Office of Sustainability are partnering to decrease waste in the City of Longmont.

Learn about the many ways the City diverts waste on Longmont’s Trash, Recycling and Composting webpage, including:

• City’s Universal Recycling Ordinance (URO) for commercial businesses and multifamily properties. Longmont’s City Council passed the Universal Recycling Ordinance (URO) as an effort to support the City’s goal of diverting 75% of our waste from landfill by 2030 and 95% by 2050.
• Developing a strategic waste management plan with regional partners.
• Partnering with Eco-Cycle and the St. Vrain Valley School District to bring the Green Star School Program to local schools.
• Residential programs, including curbside Composting collection and Pay-as-you-throw.
• Providing eco-friendly, compostable products for all departmental functions or City events.

Reduce and Divert Waste

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Save money and reduce waste by reducing your trash bin size. Or add curbside composting..

Longmont has Single Stream Recycling, learn what you can and cannot recycle on the Recycling Collection webpage.

Have hazardous waste, pharmaceuticals, leaves, important documents that need to be shredded, and other hard to dispose of items? Review Waste Service's Special Services & Events to learn how you can properly dispose of or recycle these items. 

Visit Longmont’s Recycling Center for hard to recycle items like Plastic Bags, Block #6 Styrofoam, Scrap Metal, Used Oil, and more. 

Wonder how to properly dispose of your waste? Try searching the Waste Wizard!

Regional Resources

CHaRM: Center for Hard to Recycle Materials offers another resource in Boulder County for waste diversion if your needs cannot be met by City of Longmont services. 

Resource Central's Reuse Facility in Boulder accepts donations of reclaimed building materials and home improvement items through their covered donation lane. The facility also features indoor and outdoor warehouse shopping areas.

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