Planning an event?
Did you know that on April 22, 2015, Mayor Francis Slay signed Executive Order #52 which REQUIRES all permitted events in the City of St. Louis to have a recycling plan? Let us help you meet these requirements at your next special event!
Offer recycling and composting at your event!
Full Service Event Greening Consulting
With over 14 years of event experience, we’ll help you examine your event and identify areas where eco-friendly approaches can be applied.
Costs for services include labor rates for pre-event consulting, equipment rentals, plus administrative costs in planning and follow-up reporting. Every event gets a report to use in your social media and marketing efforts of the amount of waste material that did not go to the dump because it was recycled or composted. Anything over 30% is good but our staff average 70% waste recycled or composted at the over 60 events we work annually.
Costs can start at $150 to over $3,000 depending on the needs and goals of the event.
Submit your request now and we can provide consulting on best practices!
Do-It-Yourself Event Greening
Allows access of our fleet of recycling bins to small event organizers and community groups through our bin loan program. This option is perfect for fundraisers, picnics, and church gatherings! The DIY loan program is for events wanting 30 bins or less. Composting of organics for a DIY event is possible on a case by case basis. Composting needs dedicated staffing to keep contamination rates to 0%.
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I’ve submitted my service request, now what?
Once you’ve filled out the service request form online, you will be contacted by a member of our staff within two weeks to get a better understanding of the size, scope, and waste reduction goals of your event. Be prepared to offer your budget for recycling and/or composting services.
The entire planning process to offer Recycling On the Go at your event takes anywhere from a few weeks to a few months. Our staff work part-time as-needed, so we must give them a minimum of 2 weeks notice if they are needed to work at an event. We must also consider our capacity to accommodate your equipment needs. Please submit your request far enough in advance to accommodate these needs, up to one year.
When we feel we have a clear understanding of your needs, our capacity, and y
our budget, we will prepare an ROG Service Event Agreement Proposal for you to review. It will outline the necessary services and costs associated with each. Many events qualify for a subsidy provided by the St. Louis-Jefferson Solid Waste Management District to offset the full costs of Recycling On the Go.
Once you receive your Service Event Agreement, you must sign and return it to secure our services for your event. Payment can be made in full or in partial payment (50% two weeks prior to the event and 50% after services are rendered).
After your event, we will follow up with a brief survey to help us report about our services to our grant funders about diversion data, event attendance, and successes and challenges encountered to continue to improve our services. Here is a link to the Post Event survey.
