NCA Niwot Clean Up / Recycling Day
Niwot High School Main Parking Lot
8am – noon
Tips for Clean-Up Day:
- Please do not line up before 8am
- Enter at the stop light only
- Paint collection will stop at 11am
- Best time with the least traffic is 9:30am
Know the flow:
- Arrival: A greeter will give you a waiver to review
- Inspections: As you sign the waiver, your load will be reviewed
- Checkin: Your NCA membership will be verified
- Payment / enter: See below for items requiring fees
- Unload: Drive to the appropriate drop off and volunteers will help you unload
- Exit: See the map for exit route that will keep things flowing smoothly
New for 2024
Tire recycling:
- Any tire: car, bike, wheelbarrow, …
- Removed from the rim!
- Boulder County Resource Conservation Division, your taxes pay for this!
Bicycle recycling:
- Through communitycycles.org
- Bike in any condition, working or not, along with any bike parts
We Accept:
- Yard Waste (we’ll be chipping tree limbs off-site this year for distribution to area farmers)
- Scrap Metal
- Water-based Latex and Oil-based Paint
- Styrofoam and Plastic Film
- Electronics **
- Mattresses & Box Springs **
- Tires (New for ’24)
- Bicycles and bike parts (New for ’24)
- Trash
** Extra fee required, see below
We DO NOT accept:
- Household Garbage
- Cardboard, Glass, Aluminum Recycling, please deposit in recycling bins on 79th St.
- Refrigerators, air conditioners, freezers
- Motorized Equipment with Gas or Oil
- Construction Debris (e.g. dry wall, any lumber with Nails, Mirrors)
- Please protect our volunteers from injury.
- Solvents
- Hazardous and/or Hard to Recycle Items
- Animal Waste
- Batteries
- CFL/Fluorescent Tubes
- Waste from businesses – e.g. contractor trash
Limits and additional fees
NCA Members:
- Two Free Loads
1 Load = Standard sized pickup at bed level - Additional Runs at $25 per load
Compare this to $48 to $85 what Western Disposal would charge.
Non-Members:
- $40 per Load
** Additional Fees:
- LCD / LED TV’s: $20 each
- Tube TVs: $20 each
- Small electronics and computer monitors: FREE
- Box Spring or mattress; $10 each