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Pollution Prevention Advisory Board (PPAB)
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Pollution Prevention Advisory BoardAdvanced Technology Grant ProgramThe Advanced Technology Grant (ATG) Program is intended to fund research that will increase or improve recycling techniques and technology; create marketable uses for discarded materials, including but not limited to, strategies pertaining to waste tires; address problems caused by inappropriate disposal of solid waste materials, including but not limited to, waste tire stockpiles; and, make use where possible of the research capacities of Colorado institutions of higher education. Current Grantees for FY 2010 are listed below:City & County of DenverProject Title: Increasing Residential Organics Waste Diversion in the City & County of Denver The grant will continue the current residential composting collection pilot program for an additional nine months. The project will capture additional seasonal data on the organics waste stream, gather more accurate participation data, and test some alternative transportation and processing methods. The City will partner with A1 Organics to test the feasibility of pre-processing organic material (increasing density and minimizing air space) in Denver prior to transporting the material to A1 Organics’ Keenesburg composting site. This continued pilot will provide data unprecedented in Colorado to support permanent implementation and includes expected diversion rates, public acceptance, staffing needs, operational needs (including route sizes, number of trucks, residential carts needs, public education, contamination limits, etc.), and the value of pre-processing materials, transportation and other costing information. Immediate environmental and economic benefits are waste diversion, job creation, new data on organics diversion that can be extrapolated throughout Colorado, and participant education. Final implementation of a citywide service will create jobs, actively spur growth of Denver’s composting infrastructure, divert waste from landfills, and create compost (that will reduce water use, positively impact local food production and more). Colorado Association For Recycling (CAFR)Project Title: Electronics Devise Recycling Task Force The grant is to fund the Electronics Devise Recycling Task Force, through HB-1282, which will develop legislation for handing disposal of electronic devises in Colorado. The task force will research other state laws and hold public meetings for input regarding concerns and issues from local government, non- and for-profit entities, and the general public regarding the benefits and consequences of establishing a landfill disposal ban for electronic devices. The intent is to collect as many electronic devices as possible for refurbishment and/or recycling so that the toxic elements in them are not released into a landfill environment, which in turn may at some point be released in soil, water and air. Grantees for FY 2009 are listed below:3R Roofing LLCProject Title: Roofs to Roads In partnership with Boulder County’s Transportation Department, Architects Division, and Resource Conservation Division, 3R Roofing LLC will investigate the feasibility of bringing Recycled Asphalt Shingle (RAS) technology to Colorado. This will be achieved through a demonstration project that will compare conventional asphalt to asphalt with 5% RAS shingles from tear-offs at up to three paving installations in Boulder County. The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) Research Division has expressed significant interest in this technology and will provide technical assistance to this project. A Colorado hot mix asphalt (HMA) contractor, Asphalt Specialties of Erie, Colorado, will provide an accumulation and processing site, and will make available a new RAS grinder they have recently purchased for this project. San Luis Valley Resource Conservation & Development CouncilProject Title: Combined Sanitation District for Recycling and Diversion of Municipal Solid Wastes in the SLV The project objective is to take a waste or waste stream that is currently non-productive or even potentially harmful to the environment and convert it into products that are marketable. Currently 90% of municipal wastes are deposited in the local landfills. The recycling processes will take place within the San Luis Valley Sustainable Environmental and Economic Development Park (SEED Park), which is designed to address specifically the economic needs of the San Luis Valley (SLV) and create 100 or more livable wage jobs based on enterprises that are sustainable in this high desert region. Skumatz Economic Research AssociatesProject Title: Getting the MOST from Colorado's Existing Recycling Programs and Infrastructure - Best Management Practices (BMP) in Education as the CHEAPEST and Most Efficient Technology/Technique to Increase Recycling in Colorado The project aims to deliver more recycling tons for the same money by making better use of existing outreach expenditures – increasing recycling for "free", sustainably, and with NO NEW ROUTES OR CAPITAL. About 90% of Colorado residents already have curbside or drop-off recycling. Getting MORE from the programs that exist – using well-designed social marketing technology / techniques – may be the cheapest and most cost-effective way to dramatically increase Colorado’s recycling rate. Most importantly, these approaches are completely transferable to other Colorado communities, can increase recycling AND bring source reduction and composting into the fold, and do it inexpensively. University of Colorado-DenverProject Title: Trash to Treasure: Using Crumb Rubber from Recycled Tires for Stromwater Pollution Control University of Colorado-Denver proposes a promising market to turn this trash into treasure: Using crumb rubber, a tire-derived material, in granular media filters to treat stormwater runoff. Because stormwater runoff carries sediments and contaminants that degrade aquatic habitats and impair water supplies, Colorado requires stormwater to be treated to the maximum extent practicable. Crumb rubber has been used successfully to filter treated sewage, and has the potential to remove suspended solids, organics, nutrients, and pathogens, which are also main concerns in stormwater runoff. This proposal outlines a series of laboratory experiments to determine the safety and effectiveness of crumb rubber filters, a market research plan to estimate the demand for crumb rubber filters, and a technology transfer plan to disseminate results to researchers, business, and government.
Grantees for FY 2008 are listed below:Colorado Department of TransportationProject Title: Feasibility and Plan for Building the Best Practical Noise Mitigation Walls Utilizing Waste Tires along CDOT Highways Colorado State UniversityProject Title: Field Construction of Expansive Soil Rubber Mixtures for Civil Engineering Applications Green Giant RecyclingProject Title: Creating Engineered Structural Building Components from Laminated Oriented Strand Board that has been diverted from Landfill Waste Stream University of Colorado-DenverProject Title: Recycling Solid Waste into High Performance, Environmental, Structural Insulated Panels University of DenverProject Title: Promoting Rubberized Asphalt and Other Scrap Tire Products in Colorado Engineered Vinyl ProductsProject Title: Noise Mitigation Walls Using Recycled Tires on 6th Avenue Frontage Road University of Colorado-BoulderProject Title: Premixed Rubberized Insulation Mortar If you have any questions about these projects or this grant program, please e-mail cdphe.ppp2@state.co.us . Subject Line: ATG Program. Office of Environmental Integration & Sustainability Home |
