Avon is now the first municipality in Colorado to offer end-to-end Styrofoam recycling. All Eagle County residents can drop off clean, white, hard Styrofoam with no tape or casing attached in the large white bin for free at the Avon Recycling Center. The drop-off bin is open 24/7, 365 days per year.
The town launched its new Styrofoam recycling program on March 14. The Avon Recycling Center reopened following renovations on the same day. While other municipalities, like Longmont, have Styrofoam recycling programs that involve collecting the foam and partnering with private companies to compress it, Avon is the first municipality in the state to both collect and compress in-house.
The town鈥檚 public operations team, which also handles road surface maintenance, snow and ice removal and holiday tree lighting, is primarily in charge of the Styrofoam densifier machine.