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Thank you for choosing to recycle at your special event! Whether you are planning a festival,
fund-raising event, wedding, conference, party, etc.there are many good reasons to recycle:
- Recycling is beneficial to the environment as it saves natural resources and energy
- Present a positive environmental image to special event attendees who regularly recycle at home and at work.
- Reduce landfilled waste and help Sonoma County meet state mandated 50% waste diversion goals.
For events planners, promoters, caterers, food vendors and exhibitors. You may be relying on the venue to provide recycling. If information about recycling is not provided. ASK!
- What materials are recycled?
- Are labeled recycling containers available for visitors? For vendors and exhibitors? For attendees?
- If the facility or venue does not offer recycling, then set it up yourself. You can either hire a
hauler to provide containers and pickup service, or you may choose to have your staff set up
containers and haul them directly to a recycling center. You may want to start with a few
recyclablessome recycling is better than none! See chart on the back of this page.
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Make it convenient! Tips for recycling success:
Place recycling and trash containers together at
well-traveled locationsfood stalls, restrooms, entrances and exits. Guests will likely not go out of their way to recycle if a trash can is more convenient.
Make recycling
containers look different than trash cans. Label containers with large, clear and specific wording. A colorful flag or pole helps identify recycling locations.
Designate a recycling monitormonitored recycling locations can greatly reduce trash
contamination.
If you are selling beverages, choose containers that can be recycled such as aluminum, glass and plastic bottles. Waxed paper and plastic cups cannot be recycled locally.
Donate edible food. Contact Redwood Empire Food Bank, 707-523-7900 or
visit www.refb.org or contact Catholic Charities, 707-542-5426
Reuse decorations. Contact Creative Re-Use/North Bay at 707-546-3340
If you or your guests canąt reuse decorations, consider donating them to Creative Re-Use/North Bay; nonprofit picks up donations upon request and distributes reusable items to schools and local art organizations.
Source for free recycling bins SonoMax Materials Exchange
707-565-DESK(3375)
or visit www.recyclenow.org/sonomax
Continually updated listings of local business discardsAvailable and Wanted. 55 gal. fiber, plastic and metal drums, as well as 5 gal. buckets, may be reused as recycling containers. Call for a free SonoMax listing flier or check the web site to search through current ads. SonoMax is a free county program helping divert material from landfill.
If your chosen venue does not have a recycling program
, you may choose to set one up yourself. You may contract with the waste hauler serving the venue for separate recycling containers, or with another hauler, or you may have your own staff or volunteers take the materials directly to a recycling center.
To download a fact sheet of for Special Events Recycling Service Providers for Sonoma County, click here. File size: 88 K
You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this file. It is available for free
download from Adobe.
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