Six months after launching Colorado’s first dedicated recycling program for automotive and petroleum product containers on March 11, Interchange 360, a non-profit, industry-led, Producer Responsibility Organization (PRO), has built a growing collection and recycling network across Colorado from the ground up, establishing 10 Return Collection Facilities (RCFs), four transportation partners and two processors across the state and diverting approximately 2,500 pounds of empty automotive containers for recycling.
Working in collaboration with stakeholders across the state, Interchange 360 has established resilient recycling infrastructure and a secure, specialized system for empty containers that hold products such as motor oil, antifreeze, diesel exhaust fluid and automotive aerosols. With the network continuing to expand, the organization is now launching a statewide education and outreach campaign to help Coloradans understand how and where to safely and responsibly recycle these containers.
The producer-funded program, developed under Colorado’s Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) law (HB22-1355 Producer Responsibility Program for Statewide Recycling Act), has created a dedicat...