Bridget Johnson

Last week I was in Curaçao celebrating my mom’s 80th birthday with my entire family. Seven adults in one house, endless sunshine, and water so blue it almost doesn’t look real. One morning while snorkeling, I spotted something that didn’t belong in that beautiful water. Plastic bags and glass bottles! Without even thinking about it, I dove down and pulled it all out. Old habits die hard. When you’ve spent 27 years running Green Girl Recycling , your brain is always scanning for ways to keep...

What happens when a community consistently chooses to recycle? In 2025, we found out. Together, Green Girl Recycling and our customers diverted: 1,476 TONS of recyclable material from Colorado landfills. That is nearly 3 million pounds kept in circulation instead of buried. And the impact goes far beyond a number. Co-Mingled Recycling: Your Weekly Bin at Work Your everyday recycling made a serious difference. In 2025: 1,063,734 pounds  of co-mingled containers recycled, that was 66,000 pounds...

🛏️✨ NOW ACCEPTING MATTRESSES! Yes — Green Girl Recycling is officially accepting mattresses year-round! 🎉 And fun fact… we’ve actually been recycling mattresses for over six years, helping the City of Longmont every October during their mattress collection events. Every year people asked: “Can I bring mine in anytime?” Until now, the answer had to be not yet… 🚧 Why We Couldn’t Before At our old warehouse, mattress storage was tough: They sat on an open flatbed We were near the river And...