Iron Woman Logistics Services awarded grant to build Colorado C&D recycling facility

Iron Woman Logistics Services LLC, a Denver-based provider of logistics, environmental and infrastructure services, has received a grant from the Colorado Circular Communities (C3) to develop what the company says will be Colorado’s first full-scale construction and demolition (C&D) recycling facility.

According to C3, a nonprofit statewide program dedicated to supporting Colorado’s transition to a circular economy, C&D is the largest waste stream in the state—yet the organization says the Denver metro region has historically lacked facilities capable of sorting and recovering these materials at scale.

The new facility aims to support Denver’s Universal Recycling and Composting Ordinance, regional diversion goals and the development of circular material markets. The C3 grant will fund essential capital investments in site preparation, facility construction and advanced sorting equipment.

“We are so excited to be leading the way in reuse and circularity by building a state-of-the-art C&D recycling facility focused on building today for a sustainable tomorrow,” Shaun Egan, chairman and CEO of Iron Woman, says. For more than 25 years, Iron Woman has provided a wide scope of services, including environmental, mining, civil and utilities, trucking and logistics, stream restoration and more.

The new facility is designed to process mixed C&D waste at scale, C3 says, recovering a wide range of materials for recycling and reuse. Through a collaboration with Circular Colorado, the facility also will be part of Circular Colorado’s planned innovation hub for developing new end markets for recovered materials.

“This project represents a critical step forward in developing Colorado’s circular economy,” says Laurie Johnson, founder and CEO of Circular Colorado and the director of the Circular Economy Development Center. “By proving the viability of large-scale material recovery and creating a hub for end market development, this facility moves us from theory to practice. It’s an essential step in building the closed-loop systems that will reduce waste, conserve resources and strengthen our local economy.”