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The environment desk at Aspen Public Radio covers issues in the Roaring Fork Valley and throughout the state of Colorado including water use and quality, impact of recreation, population growth and oil and gas development. APR’s Environment Reporter is Elizabeth Stewart-Severy.

PitCo commissioners want to see less plastic

Barbara Platts/Aspen Public Radio

At a meeting Tuesday, Pitkin County Commissioner Greg Poschman said he’d like to see real efforts to eliminate plastic.

 

Poschman referenced models of communities across the country and the world reducing the use of plastics, including everything from straws to containers in grocery stores.

“I think it’s time to have that discussion, and if we did, it’s one to have with the city because it’s critical that they’re part of it,” he said.

Plastic straws, in particular, are a problem because they cannot be recycled. Commissioners agreed to discuss the issue with Aspen Mayor Steve Skadron and city manager Steve Barwick.

 

Aspen native Elizabeth Stewart-Severy is excited to be making a return to both the Red Brick, where she attended kindergarten, and the field of journalism. She has spent her entire life playing in the mountains and rivers around Aspen, and is thrilled to be reporting about all things environmental in this special place. She attended the University of Colorado with a Boettcher Scholarship, and graduated as the top student from the School of Journalism in 2006. Her lifelong love of hockey lead to a stint working for the Colorado Avalanche, and she still plays in local leagues and coaches the Aspen Junior Hockey U-19 girls.
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