Composting

Food waste disposal company Compost Queen recently opened its latest facility and headquarters in Fort Collins. Chris Wood, editor and publisher of BizWest, joined KUNC’s Nikole Robinson Carroll to discuss the company and its strategies.

Starting on April 1, 2023, residents and businesses can only compost food, plant trimmings, yard waste and certain compostable bags, according to the compost recycler serving Boulder.

A Colorado company is hoping to usher in a new and more environmentally friendly era of mortuary science that includes the natural organic reduction of human remains. On Sept. 7, Colorado became the second state after Washington to allow human body composting, and Oregon will allow the practice next summer.

When it opened in 1963, the Larimer County Landfill had plenty of room to hold most of the trash produced by the residents of Estes Park, Fort Collins and…