Sustainability
Recycling
Recycling is one of the most fundamental and familiar principles of sustainability. At Stapleton, it has been – and remains – a continuous priority, from the initial challenge of recycling the site’s original airport to ongoing concerns of residential recycling.
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Consumer Recycling
Denver Recycles provides free curbside recycling throughout Stapleton. Their expanded recycling program accepts corrugated cardboard, junk mail, paperboard, office paper, magazines and catalogs, phone books, brown paper bags, newspapers with inserts, plastic bottles, glass bottles and jars, aluminum cans, aluminum foil, pie tins, steel cans and empty aerosol cans.
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Denver Recycles strives to start service in newly built areas in Stapleton as soon as possible, especially since awareness of recycling is so high in the community. Denver Recycles regularly sends staff out to Stapleton to assess construction progress within newly occupied areas. Their goal is to start service to an area as soon as it is safe to do so.
Airport Recycling
Forest City Stapleton is committed to recycling the remnants of the airport into usable materials. Key accomplishments include:
- The removal and recycling of 6 million tons of concrete runways. The aggregate is successfully being used in construction projects at Denver International Airport, Buckley Air National Guard Base, E-470, The Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge and Bluff Lake Nature Center. It is also being used for numerous roads, alleys, sidewalks, curbs and foundations at Stapleton and other areas.
- The recycling of more than 200,000 tons of asphalt from the airport parking lots and the former commuter runway and runway aprons. This material has been successfully used as road base at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge.
- The recycling of airport buildings. These buildings and hangers are now home to a variety of area organizations within Stapleton, including Colorado Studios, the Bladium Sports Club of Denver, the Denver Police Training Academy, and R.K. Mechanical.