Make your next event a LITTER FREE EVENT

How To Make Your Next Event A “LITTER FREE EVENT”

Solid Waste Management will help you plan. Call: Chris Thomason, Garrard/Lincoln Solid Waste Management Area Coordinator, 859-339-3233.

Commit to litter-free event.

Include in pre-event planning.

Assign one person to coordinate.

Notify vendors, exhibitors, staff and volunteers that they are participating in a litter-free event and give guidelines, i.e., encourage them to leave their spaces and adjoining public areas clean, let them know where they can dump their trash, etc.

Provide a sufficient number of well-marked trash and recycling receptacles, making sure they are conveniently located, paying special attention to areas near food venues and eating-places. (Remember cigarette butt receptacles.)

Have a place to empty both trash and recycling receptacles. Depending on size and length of event, this could require renting a dumpster. Talk with hauler about delivery, pick up, and suggested size for event. For large events, Solid Waste can provide recycle trailer.

Advertise as “Litter Free Event” both before and during event.

Place signs and banners in key locations, reminding visitors to properly dispose of trash.

Think about smokers. Can you provide portable or pocket ashtrays at the entrance or alert them that there are strategically placed cigarette butt receptacles located throughout the grounds of event?

Make announcements during event, reminding visitors to properly dispose of trash, including cigarettes.

Assign volunteers to:

· Walk through event and pick up litter.

· Empty trashcans and recycling containers as soon as they are full – making sure they do not overflow.

· After event is over, fan-out over grounds and pick up any litter.

Solid Waste Management* can provide:

3’ x 8’ Litter Free Event banner.

24” x 18” Litter Free Event signs (commonly called “yard signs”/easy to place throughout event).

Vests with wording on back: “make this a LITTER FREE EVENT” (for cleanup crew, or ?).

Extra trashcans (Solid Waste is not responsible for emptying trashcans).

Plastic bags for trashcans (for “extra” trashcans only – see above).

Grabber/reachers for trash pick up.

Recycling trailer.

* Solid Waste Management does not provide event volunteers.

July 2010