Recycling
Keystone operates a comprehensive recycling program that provides service to employees and guests at all Keystone owned or managed operations. This includes condominiums, restaurants, offices, and businesses operating both on and off the mountain. Keystone has its own curbside recycling truck, and in 2005, recycled over 1,300 tons of material. In addition to resort operations, Keystone provides recycling services to the Snake River Fire Station and to two local non-profit organizations, the Keystone Center and the Keystone Science School.
Keystone’s recycling of 1,300 tons in 2006 was equivalent to saving:

• Over 6,600 trees
• 120 households worth of energy
• 1,240 tons of Carbon Dioxide and 54 tons of Methane (greenhouse gasses)

Composting
Keystone started composting in 2002 at the Ranch Restaurant, and has since expanded the program to include the Keystone Conference Center. The composting efforts at both locations combine vegetable kitchen scraps with wood shavings to create a rich fertilizing soil that is then used in landscaping throughout the resort. The compost program diverts up to 3 tons of food waste per month from the landfill during our busiest months of operations.

Toner Recycling
Toner cartridges from printers and fax machines are collected and sent to a centralized collection agency that then donates money to Summit County schools based on the number and type of toners that are recycled.

Product reuse

• Uniform Reuse: In the fall of 2003, old Keystone employee uniforms were sent overseas through Sharing Warmth Around the Globe, an organization that identifies areas with needs for warm winter clothing.
• On-Mountain Sign Reuse: In the summer of 2004, on-mountain wooden signs were replaced with metal signs, and the wood from the old signs was refurbished and used for posts for emergency phones, fences, and lights, and to make flower planter boxes for summer for the mountain base areas.
• Building Material Reuse: The summer mountain bike crew has utilized old decking that was being replaced from on-mountain lodges along with other scrap lumber (such as old sign posts) to build mountain bike bridges and features.
• Bed Reuse: The Keystone Lodge replaced 110 beds in April of 2004. The old beds were donated to Providers’ Resource Clearing House in Denver, an organization that donates the beds to human services non-profit organizations.