Alpine Waste & Recycling.

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SNAPSHOT: Alpine Waste & Recycling is the largest independent, locally owned waste and recycling provider in the Denver Metro area. It specializes in meeting the needs of commercial, industrial and retail customers as well as both commercial and residential property managers. Alpine offers every type of nonhazardous solid waste collection service available, including commercial compostables collection.

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LEADERSHIP: President John Griffith founded the Commerce City company in 1999.

WORK FORCE: Alpine has 94 full-time equivalent employees and expects to grow to 120 this year.

WASTE NOT: In 2006, Alpine determined that environmental initiatives would shape the waste-hauling industry's future. First, it became the only company in the. Denver market to offer compost waste collection. Then it took the biggest risk in the company's history, opening the Altogether Recycling Plant, which in...