DNC proves 'green' trash efforts big success
source: http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/aug/29/dnc-proves-green-trash-efforts-big-success/
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Months of planning for a deeply green Democratic National Convention largely paid off, vendors and city officials said Friday, with tons of garbage now in composting rows and recyclables headed for reuse.
"We said this would be the greenest convention ever and it has been," Mayor John Hickenlooper said Friday morning.
Final answers on how sustainable this convention really was won't be available for several weeks.
Parry Burnap, director of greening for Denver's local convention committee, said a report that compares preliminary estimates with actual results would likely be ready in early to mid-October.
"We've had scant time to digest this," Burnap said.
But Hickenlooper said Friday that nearly 70 percent of the trash generated at the Colorado Convention Center had been diverted from the landfill, sorted into compost or recycled.
At the Pepsi Center, the other convention venue, it looked as if similar amounts had been diverted, he said.
On one afternoon alone, volunteers weighed 150 pounds of "e-waste" - laptop batteries and discarded cell phones - that had been captured for recycling instead of being thrown out.
Waste Management, which hauled all of the trash and recyclable materials, said the undertaking, which required hand sorting by hundreds of volunteers, was the most complex it had ever tackled.
"We said this would be the greenest convention ever and it has been," Mayor John Hickenlooper said Friday morning.
Final answers on how sustainable this convention really was won't be available for several weeks.
Parry Burnap, director of greening for Denver's local convention committee, said a report that compares preliminary estimates with actual results would likely be ready in early to mid-October.
"We've had scant time to digest this," Burnap said.
But Hickenlooper said Friday that nearly 70 percent of the trash generated at the Colorado Convention Center had been diverted from the landfill, sorted into compost or recycled.
At the Pepsi Center, the other convention venue, it looked as if similar amounts had been diverted, he said.
On one afternoon alone, volunteers weighed 150 pounds of "e-waste" - laptop batteries and discarded cell phones - that had been captured for recycling instead of being thrown out.
Waste Management, which hauled all of the trash and recyclable materials, said the undertaking, which required hand sorting by hundreds of volunteers, was the most complex it had ever tackled.
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