Compost Colorado sits just north of the I-70/I-25 interchange, where the South Platte River squeezes beneath the state’s two largest highways, in a historic neighborhood at the nexus of environmental and economic justice in Denver. Globeville got its name in the 1880s from one of the many smelting companies that hugged the banks of the Platte, burning ore from the mountains to produce valuable minerals — and polluting large swaths of the air and earth in a mostly immigrant community over a compounding century…
Compost Colorado Plans to Bring Organic Waste Full Circle
