• Office Paper, cardboard, newspaper, plastic, glass, cans, coat hangers, carpet, carpet pad, batteries, computers, copper and metal pipes from maintenance, wood crates, wood products, motor oil, cooking oil, and more …
• We use Western Disposal on a daily basis
• We take items to Green Mountain or Eco-Cycle and pay to have them recycled.
• Linens – we use old linens for rags.  We also donate towels, sheets, blankets, and pillows to the homeless shelters and local charities.
• We also use recycled paper products.
• In 2008, the Hotel Boulderado recycled over 130 tons of cardboard, plastic, glass bottles, newspapers, and office paper.
• In 2009, we reconfigured our recycle and waste disposal and are now able to recycle 200% more than previously and reduce waste by 60%.

• Furniture, mattresses, lamps, case goods, partially consumed shampoos, and other amenities are donated to local charities and homeless shelters.
• Leftover banquet food to the Boulder Community Food Share Program.
• All eyeglasses and sunglasses left in the hotel and not claimed go to Habitat for Humanity and charities for the Tibetans and Jamaicans.
• All used bath amenities (soap, shampoo/conditioner, etc) to the Cheyenne River Lakota/Sioux Reservation in central South Dakota.
• When the Conference Center was renovated in 2008, the hotel donated over 100 light fixtures to Habitat for Humanity.

• Our cleaning products are as environmentally friendly as possible.
• All of our carpet cleaning products are green.
• Drain cleaners are natural enzymes.
• All solvents and soaps that we use are biodegradable.
• We don’t use any oil based paints in the entire building.
• Our dry cleaner, Art Cleaners, uses non toxic, environmentally friendly products.
• The flowers in our guest rooms and suites are provided by Veriflora, a certified sustainable nursery.

• We use a water recovery system to clean outside patios, etc.
• We use low flush toilets.
• We use aerators in the showers.
• We use CFL (Compact Fluorescent Lamps) light bulbs in rooms and common areas where applicable.
• In vacant rooms we set the heat at a lower setting and the A/C at a higher setting.
• We honor guest requests for linen to be reused during their stay.
• We don’t automatically replace unused amenities.
• We have eliminated plastic and paper cups in the guest rooms, replaced with china and glass.
• We place newspapers in central locations, rather than in each room.
• We have thermal blankets on our water heaters.
• We encourage our employees to use alternate methods of transportation by offering free Eco-Passes (bus pass) to all employees and we provide bicycle racks. Over half of our employees have and use their Eco-Pass regularly.
  
• Computers are turned off in offices during the evening and weekends to conserve energy.
• Exit signs utilize LED lights.
• We purchased new HVAC units on the roof of the historic building.
• Our catering and restaurant kitchens started composting.

Certified by the Environmental Protection Agency and Partners for a Clean Environment!