Commerce City Citizens for Recycling

Mr. Bradley Johnson
11316 Lansing Street
Henderson CO 80640
Home: 303.286.5993

Ms. Trudy Smith
Email: trudy5683@msn.com
7142 Pontiac Street
Commerce City CO 80022
Home: 303-286-3644

Ms. Lois Heinrich
Home: 303.286.7965

Mrs. Addie Romero

Ms. Grace Tochihara
Home: 303.289.6729

Ms. Jeneva Hardney
Home: 303.227.1151

Mrs. Bev Benzel
Email: bevlezneb@hotmail.com
Home: 303.287.2266

Mr. Bob Benzel
Home: 303.287.2266

Mrs. Shirley Curless
Home: 303.288.4803

Mr. Gene Leffel
Home: 303.287.3075

Mr. Guillermo Serna
Email: gerser1@msn.com
Home: 303.289.7101

Mrs. Jeannette Lewis
Home: 303.288.4370

Mr. Orval Lewis
Home: 303.288.4370

Mr. Robert Vashaw
Email: rhvashaw@hotmail.com
Home: 303.717.3914

Cristie Jophlin
Email: cjophlin@communityenterprise.net
Office: 303-288-4783

Commerce City Citizens for Recycling

Recycling

Recycling becomes part of city's free trash pickup...

What was once wishful thinking is now a reality in Commerce City - curbside recycling. Providing a recycling program is just another step in City Council's efforts to make the community 'more green' and responsive to the environment and meet the expectations of residents.

''Residents have been asking for recycling, a local community organization has requested it, the council made it a priority - an now we have it,'' Mayor Paul Natale said. ''And more importantly, recycling is the right thing to do. We wanted, and needed, to make it available to our residents.''

CCCR is grateful to the city for introducing this program and we are grateful to the citizens of our committee and those in the community who signed our petition! Way to go!!!

Mission, History, and Activities

Mission
Our mission is to ease and expand recycling for our community and create a regional model for recycling.

History
CCCR was founded in 2001 and currently is a group of individuals dedicated to increasing and easing recycling efforts in the Commerce City area.

Accomplishments
-Recycled 8000 pounds of computers, 1000 tires, 100 propane tanks, and 2500 pounds of scrap metal
-Attended all outreach picnics since 2002
-Collected 1,000,000 can tabs with Adams 14 and 27J school children

Current Activities
-Monthly meetings - Come and join us (last Tuesday of the month?—Derby Resource Center)
-Electronic/computer/tire drives
-Hold America Recycles Day
-Outreach at many community activities
-Promotion of product made of recycled materials
-Recycling education

Can Tabs Program Completed!

In 2006 our group decided to collect a million can tabs with kids in the community. Our goal was to teach them and get them thinking about recycling. We are thrilled to report that after three long years we have reached one million can tabs! Through the efforts of our kids and the community we can finally see what one million of something actually looks like! Keep in mind that kids in our community collected the mass majority of these tabs!