2018 Spring Clean Up

Saturday, June 23, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. at the Bluebird Lodge parking lot. 

DIVERSION is the focus again this year.  Boulder County supports our diversion/recycling efforts, but they are no longer providing any money for trash disposal.  We will be getting one dumpster for trash and, since we will have to pay for it ($485 this year), we will need to charge (rate sheet at the end). 

Three Dumpsters will arrive between 8:30 and 9:00 a.m. – Only one for junk/trash (we will need to collect a fee for trash and donations are requested for the diversion stuff), one for metal, and one for wood – general wood/lumber as in the past.  Please don’t come with stuff earlier than 9:00. 

***And, as always, we need volunteers to help!***

To volunteer, please contact me, Gretchen Diefenderfer, at gretchend@nullmac.com  (303-442-3847).

DIVERSION (see http://www.ecocycle.org/charm). 

Mixed rigid plastics (playground stuff, coolers, etc.) and Styrofoam 

Tires – no rims.

Refrigerators and freezers!

Electronics, small appliances

Mattresses

Household hazardous waste (HHW)

Oil, Antifreeze

           Car batteries

            Latex paint

        METAL Container– No liquids – No fridges – No tires on rims (just rims are ok!) – No batteries –No paint cans with paint still in them.  We will take fridges and tires this year, but they have to go in the diversion trucks [there will be one for tires and appliances, one for HHW, one for mattresses, and more for electronics.   Wire fencing and barbed wire are ok

 WOOD Container– No chemically treated wood including stain or paint – No nails in the wood (although a few seem to be ok, just not an excessive amount) – No particleboard.  Slash is ok – no longer than 18” (be judicious with this – there is only one dumpster and it can’t take a forest of slash) 

        TRASH  Containers  – junk – No recyclables!  We need to pay for this and will need to charge for trash. And we request donations for the diversion items  

            $12 per car, van, or SUV (less for just a few things)

            $15-18 per pick-up truck or trailer full

            $25 per vehicle with trailer

Please remember that it would be much more expensive to take a truckload to the dump (a carload taken to Western Disposal is charged $37-$45).

 Repurposing – We encourage people to bring stuff that others might want.  Be prepared to pick these items up if no one wants them, or for them to go into the dumpsters.  We will take some stuff down to donate in Boulder, either to second hand stores or to Resource 2000.  But don’t forget we will have the town bake/rummage/craft sale in September, too.

 Any propane bottles must be vented and this means the entire top mechanism must be removed.  Just opening it does not suffice. We made this mistake once and it cost us

It’s amazing how much stuff piles up!  This is your chance to clear that stuff out!

Tony Vrba, our Chair of the Gold Hill Town Meeting, would like to encourage people prior to the 23^rdto clean up areas around the community.  Several people do this frequently on their own, and it would be nice to get a group effort going.