Keep Woodland Park Beautiful

Join us for the 11th annual Woodland Park Spring Community Cleanup on Saturday, June 8!

With the lack of snow and abundance of wind, we need all the help we can get this year.  So please feel free to download our flyer and distribute to your friends, co-workers and neighbors.  Isaac Leigh will be returning for the 2nd year in a row and entertaining us with some great music at the BBQ.  We hope you can join us!

 Questions? Call Bryan at 719-650-4602.

Full flyer here:

www.kwpb.info/PDFs/KWPB_Cleanup_Flyer_2013.pdf

Electronics recycling in Woodland Park!

Thanks to a new partnership between Blue Star Recyclers, the Woodland Park High School SOS club, and RE-2 school district, recycling in Woodland Park is taking a BIG step forward, with a partnership that expands electronics recycling efforts in our community, and generates funds for vocational training of students.  Great news! 

To view complete details including hours of operation, and what can be recycled, please visit http://www.wpsdk12.org/wppr/

Want to know what you can (and can't!) recycle at Waste Management's Divide Transfer Station?  Check the attached PDF (click here).  Remember (as of this writing) recycling at the transfer station is free for residents of Woodland Park and Teller County.

Hours:

From David Buttery, Woodland Park City Manager ...

"Sadly Wal-mart and Waste Management are suspending the recycling drop-off station at the Woodland Park Wal-mart on Friday, June 8 due to abuse of this free-of-charge service. Disrespectful patrons have been dropping off household garbage, waste oil, and numerous other things that can't be recycled and ruin those items that can be recycled. Employees of both companies have to clean up after these messy people. This valuable service will be missed and we hope that a plan can be created that will bring it back soon."

How sad that such a small percentage of our population had such a destructive impact on our recycling efforts.  As a result, all of us lost access to our free community recycling center.   We thank both Walmart and Waste Management for their patience and effort ... they tried and tried and tried again, as did Teller County Waste before them.  Unfortunately far too many treated the recycling center as their personal dumping ground.  

For those committed to recycling, take note that Waste Management's transfer station in downtown Divide is accepting recyclables, and as of this writing. dropping off recyclables is free.   In addition, both Waste Management & Teller County Waste offer curbside recycling for a fee.