Denver requires seven things of every apartment and condo community with 8 or more units. This URCO multifamily checklist walks all seven in dependency order, from confirming your unit count through annual reporting, plus a self audit you can run in ten minutes to see whether your building would pass a license renewal check today.

Switching haulers is allowed. The risk is the gap between the old container leaving and the new one arriving, which is where properties end up non compliant for a week. Sequencing, notice requirements, what to update afterward, and the contract clause that quietly re-ups you for another term.

Melly's Recycling handles Denver's URCO obligation for food businesses, multifamily properties, hotels, and permitted events. We are a compliance company, not a hauler. We build the whole file, keep it current, hand it to you ready for an inspector, and connect you with the licensed haulers worth working with.

Compliance service is a phrase used loosely. Six components make up the URCO obligation, and a hauling contract covers exactly one of them. Here is the breakdown of what sits with you unless you specifically buy it, and when running it internally is the right call.

Denver's Universal Recycling and Composting Ordinance applies to food businesses, multifamily buildings with eight or more units, hotels, and permitted events. Here is the plain version of who is covered, what you have to provide, how capacity is calculated in gallons, and what the city checks at license renewal.

Winter doesn't pause your URCO obligation, but it does change how your organics program runs. Material freezes to container walls. Yard trimmings vanish while holiday food volume spikes. Staff stage material indoors longer, and contamination climbs with holiday packaging and serviceware. The instinct to cut a pickup in January is usually the wrong call — frequency limits freeze bonding, odor, and how long contamination sits unnoticed. Here's how to keep the program clean thro