Beginning Thursday, all property owners in Boulder — both commercial and residential — must offer their tenants compost collection containers.
The mandate goes into effect one day after the city began requiring that all properties west of Broadway and south of Sumac Avenue have containers, and the city vowed to enforce that rule strictly and with no warnings — only fines that graduate from $250 to $500 to $1,000.
Boulder will not fine anyone for the first year of the compost policy, however, in large part because there are so few properties up to speed on that front. An Eco-Cycle survey of 174 out of the roughly 900 multi-family dwellings in Boulder found that only 15 percent currently have compost programs.
The rollout of the new compost policy is staggered. Individual businesses that don’t own their properties or are tenants of larger commercial facilities aren’t required to begin composting until September.
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