One of my very best friends currently resides in Denver, Colorado. My other very best friend, Sam, and I had the chance to visit her over the weekend. We used all of our Southwest points to get us there for free!
The view from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science
We had the chance to do some early morning yoga at Red Rocks Amphitheater and the weather was gorgeous!
It was a pretty big yoga class!
It was nice chance compared to my usual yoga in a studio in the basement of my gym…
Besides being a mountain yogi, I was able to explore some of the waste differences between Denver and Chicago.
For instance, city recycling bins are purple! Here in Chicago, recycling bins can be a number of colors depending on who you get service through.
In the city, Chicago’s carts are blue. Our building recently just switched to a private hauler (stay tuned for that post) and now both our garbage and recycling bins are blue. They are slightly different shades, but both blue nonetheless. How confusing is that?
On Saturday, we went out to eat at Denver Central Market, which is basically a fancy food court. You could pick from a number of local items and could sit wherever you want at communal tables.
They had amazing clearly labeled compost, recycling, and trash bins. Unfortunately, I ate everything on my plate (pizza), so there was nothing to dispose of!
Not only can you compost at eateries, but Denver also has a city compost collection program. It is not free and is not available in all areas of the City, but I am still jealous that the city runs a program like this.
Kitchen compost container
Residents who sign up for the program get a green cart that is picked up weekly.
Other than me nerding out about Denver’s waste systems, we did do other things such as visit the Denver Botanic Garden and go to a Colorado Rockies game.
waste not want not 
:O that yoga class tho!
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It was really cool! I am so glad we got to do it!
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I needed out over the composting when I saw it too! The rest of the US needs to catch up with cities like Denver!
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Whoops. I mean nerded not needed. See, I’m so excited about it that I can’t event type correctly!
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Haha! It happens! Thanks!
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Great report. When we visited Nova Scotia 10 years ago, we found a similar system. They had some sort of “compost police” that checked to be sure you put the right stuff in the bins.
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I did not realize Denver was that progressive with composting! I knew a little about their system in regards to the waste changes made at red rocks but that is so great their is a composting program! Yea Denver! Great, informative post. Thank you for sharing!!
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Thanks for reading! I never looked into what they were doing at Red Rocks so good to know!
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