CNN 2012-02-18

 According the government estimates,Americans produced about 250 million tons of garbage in 2010.Now of course,recycling can help cut down on the amount of treasury 1 produced.But that's not enough for one Colorado city,officials there don't want to decrease the amount of trash, they want to do away with it entirely 2.R shows how businesses are sorting it all out.Steamboats,Colorado,homes of amazing views,so-capped peaks,stunning tree lines and mountains of garbage?Believe it or not,the connection between the snowy height and trash and these overflowing 3 lunch trays are closer than you might think.You see, about three years ago,Steamboats Spring set an ambitious goal.They wanted to eliminate all garbage,they recycled or reused everything.The goal to be 100% waste-free by 2014.Here how it works.

 
Restaurants in town events should use only recycled products,that means the cups,plates and eat utensils 4 have to be compostable or made from recycle goods.Even trash cans are sealed so customer can't throw anything away.They have people who do it for you.
When a tray come to the station,what's your job?What are you doing?
 
 
We take soda 5 of bottle out,we take any plastic wrappers out and the plastic wrappers go to the garbage and the soda goes in recycling.Anything left food or the bio-plastic that's left,we put in our composer then.
 
 
Yep,these guys sort through steamboats trash,making sure the right items get to the right places.And to shows us how it done,we get J.
J,the guy,this plate coming up is a full one.WOW.
 
 
Oh, Jesus.
OK.How to I get started?You tell me.What to do with is?
Yeah,this is quite typical plate right here.This is what you see on the normal basis.First,we got started with the trash so we can't recycle anything like this.All right.Tinted 6 foil,wrappers so we gonna take these or we gonna go straight to the wastes with that.
 
 
What about these guys with papers?This is completely compostable.
So that's....so follow me,we are gonna go in the compostable bin 7 right here.
And what's about these stuff,like plastic？This is actually compostable,too as well.
 
 
At the end of the day,all those left-overs come here.The Twin E Composing facility just outside the town,where trash to disintegrate 8 into dirt.Every year,they turn more than 170 tons of food wrappers and other compostable waster into 400 tons of fertile oil,which goes right back to the mountains of Steamboat Spring's.
 
 
J,when you are looking at all the stuff,some people will see and just say all these goes in trash but.. what's the difference when you look at it?
You know,when I look at it,I see a big garden of dirt right here.And we can bring it in,we can make a you know a wrapped for a winner facilities,we can get a biking trail started with this.
 
 
This is one-day possibly plant food. Exactly.Unreal.That's a playground right there.
 
 
Steamboat already cut its waste by at least 70%,they think that was little guidance any country any city could do just as well.
People on vacation so they are you know,they are here for fun,and then they see some like that,that interests them,they can bring it home to where they are in.I thinks any bit hopes that if Steamboat bring to the nation and the world,that's a good thing.R,CNN, Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
 
 
You fans of our puns are gonna love this next story.Those of you who don'tlike them are just gonna have to suffer through it.Before we go,we gonna check outside some barnyard harmonizing.
 
 
And donkey singing,and that's might be the best you might be hope for when you do that partner at donkey.The woman who posted this video in YOUTUBE said she just want to play some music for the animal on a farm.The donkey wasn't content to be the audience though,he wanted to be in on the act.Might not have perfect pitch but if you gonna sing in the wrong key,try not to be flat.We'd say the donkey in this video playing partner killed on that sound.We don't want to promote that violence.
 
 
Maybe he recall some of the farmyard friends for the next corral concert.We definitely take notice of that,be sure to tune 9 in.These fun are coming for the favorite pitch.We go for more,we gonna hold more for Moda Solid Seven.At last it for you band members.Hope you got it.Enjoy your rest of the day for CNN students news.I am CA.