Boulder County League of Women Voters hosts compost facility discussion
Apr. 13—The League of Women Voters of Boulder County will host a Wednesday night online "community conversation" about "large-scale composting" in the region.
League officials said in a news release that the webinar is intended to clarify what composting is, where compost comes from, where it goes, the costs and benefits of a compost facility "and where ... we go from here."
Boulder County commissioners decided on March 4 to have county staff withdraw a land use application for siting and developing a facility on county-owned open space property on the former Rainbow Tree Nursery at 5762 N. 107th St., which lies near U.S. 287 between Colo. 52 and Lookout Road, south of Longmont and northwest of Erie.
League of Women Voters of Boulder County said in its announcement of Wednesday's 5 to 6:30 p.m. community conversation that "while the location on open space has been taken out of consideration, the need for a facility remains."
Speakers during Wednesday night's event are to include: Dan Matsch, manager, Eco-Cycle's Compost Department; Tim Broderick, senior sustainability strategist in Boulder County's Office of Sustainability, Climate Action & Resilience; Bob Yost, vice president and chief technical office at A1 Organics, Keenesburg; Charlie Kamenides, Longmont waste services manager and chairman of the Boulder County Recycling; and Conservation Advisory Board; and Elizabeth Black, founder of Citizen Science Soil Health Project.
People can register for the webinar through a link at tinyurl.com/35ku4xtc. People with questions can email the League of Women Voters' Lydia R. Linke at lydiarlinke@gmail.com.
