The Citywide Paint Recycling event was on Saturday, October 15th, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at Shepherd of the Hills Presbyterian Church, 11500 W. 20th Ave., Lakewood. It was open to any Colorado resident and there’s no limit to the amount of paint you can drop off. Keep an eye out in October 2023 for the next […]
We got together at the northeast corner of the Lakewood Park parking lot to pick up trash. It was a big success! We’ll probably have another one in late winter / early spring of 2023.
We picked apples throughout the neighborhood.
Get your garden ready for spring by coming down to the neighborhood seed swap.
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We recycled 15 Christmas trees. Lakewood will turn this until mulch people can use in their yards and gardens.
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Local neighbor Adam showed two compost systems he runs to reduce food waste and build compost for his garden.
On June 26th, 2021 we participated in another paint recycling event. This time around we recycled 15 poxes of paint, which weighed a total of 12,302 pounds. Were we to have emptied every paint can and filled new cans to the brim, that would amount to approximately 1,230 gallons of new paint! The latex paint […]
On May 16, we participated in the Citywide Paint Recycling Event, a partnership between the Sustainable Neighborhood Network, 6 of Lakewood’s Sustainable Neighborhoods, and 2 of Wheat Ridge’s Sustainable Neighborhoods. Residents were able to safely recycle unused paint and empty containers during this 1-day, contact-free event at 2 locations in Lakewood and 1 in Wheat […]