CMAP - Circular Materials Economy
Consultation has concluded
This is the focus area for you if you want to explore these questions:
- How can we go beyond our recycle-compost-landfill approach to create a closed loop of goods and services in which nothing goes to waste?
- How do we reduce our demands on the natural world by using recycled and refurbished raw materials and products.
Topics might include:
- Food systems and food choice
- Consumption
- Policy and legislative work
- Current data
- Innovation in zero waste systems
Checkout these slides presented at the launch event and keep scrolling to share your ideas. You can also download them in Spanish.
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What big ideas (think systems change) should we explore as a community to:
- Change consumption habits
- Reduce food waste
- Create a circular economy so the stuff we use for one purpose is continually being re-purposed for something else
View All Ideasover 4 years ago
Declare a Carbon-Free future
As a community. we make a pledge to become carbon free by some achievable year: the sooner the better. As a community we set ourselves interim goals. Other cities have declared this aspiration. We are small so we may have an advantage. This is an exercise in collectively imagining 'The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible' and holding ourselves accountable in our march ahead. There is no need to clean up if we are not making a mess in the first place. We have effectively reduced by removing carbon from our diet.
over 4 years ago
I'd like to see support for using Tare-able reusable bags and compost-at-home packaging -- esp for produce -- at all grocery stores.
over 4 years ago
Repair/Reuse/Recycle workshop space
Imagine a workshop space that is devoted to repairing and reusing the embodied energy of everyday devices. The idea is to have tools, resources, an internet connection, a DIY library of lessons learned, people passionate about fixing things, classrooms, tables, recycling, and headquarters for clinics. Perhaps in the near future, we could have a Repair Clinic trailer that could do the same for outreach into the community. The workshop space could work on a self-funding bitcoin or Venmo model of pay what you can with subsidies through City Recycling. We would count on and use Community Cycles as our prototype? This would strike at the heart of consumerism and its sibling planned obsolescence!
about 4 years ago
Launch a Zero Waste Biz Challenge
Take proposals for taking Boulder's most common waste and turning it into something that can be used in Boulder, right here in Boulder. Right now our program that takes yard waste and turns it into mulch and compost is great. Let's expand on that, for examples by: taking construction and demolition waste and turning it into simple, basic building supplies; collecting all styrofoam and turning it into floats for the reservoir or insulation. The winning concept could receive startup funding and a space.
over 4 years ago
Fix-it Events and a Zero Waste Store
I'd love to see fix-it days happening on Pearl St. Maybe have bike tools, sewing machines and other equipment so that people can bring items along and work with volunteers to learn how to fix things themselves. Also a Zero Waste Store in Boulder. Bulk bin food with a discount and facilities for bringing your own containers and items like refill shampoo, beeswax wraps and other single use plastic replacements. Both of these ideas are intended to get people thinking about how they can reduce and reuse everyday items.
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