Keeping Colorado Beautiful is Everybody's Business

Colorado's been our company home for 15 years. No matter what we do for a living, we can all agree that our state is a wonderful place to live, play, and work. Here are some ways to help keep it that way:

• Participate in your community's recycling programs at home and at work. Implement a recycling program at your office to recycle office paper and other items.
• Shut down your computer at the end of the day.
• Consider your commute. Could you ride your bike, or walk to work? What about mass transit? Could you car pool to work?
• Use a washable commuter mug for your morning coffee and eliminate a Styrofoam or plastic cup every day.
• Combine multiple errands into one trip to reduce your amount of driving.
• As an office, organize a community clean up day.
• Find out where you can safely recycle cell phones and computers in your community. Better yet, find out who would be happy to receive and refurbish donated cell phones and computers.
• At home, exercise restraint when watering your lawn. Instead of landscaping with plants that require constant maintenance, consider using plants that are native to your natural environment.
• Conserve one of our most precious natural resources by installing water-efficient showerheads and faucets.
• An aluminum can is recycled, turned into a new can and back on store shelves in 60 days. Aluminum is a sustainable metal and can be recycled over and over again. In 2003, 54 billion cans were recycled, saving the energy equivalent of 15 million barrels of crude oil: America's entire gas consumption for one day.
• Buy products in containers that you know you will be able to recycle.
• Bring your own bags to the market, either cloth ones or your old paper and plastic ones.