Zero Waste Event Kit Details
Following these simple steps, Eco-Cycle's Zero Waste Event Kit allows you to effortlessly host a Zero Waste event.
Step 1: Invite Your Guests
Let them know you are hosting a Zero Waste event. Here some suggested sample text you can include on invitations:
I'm working with Eco-Cycle to make this a Zero Waste event. Please support my efforts by not bringing non-recyclable materials to this event. To learn more about ways to support my Zero Waste event or to learn more about Zero Waste, go to www.ecocycle.org.
Step 2: Assess Your Event Needs
Take an inventory of the foods and drinks you will be serving, numbers of guests and what tableware your event will require.
Products available in the Zero Waste Event Kit:
1. Compostable Tableware
All products available in the kit are made from recycled paper, plant starch, or sugarcane and are fully compostable. You determine the amount, size and type of tableware you need, depending on the size of your event and the food and/or beverages you plan to serve. Compostable products are available in multiples of 25.
Tip: Consider whether you really need tableware:
- Reusables don't create any waste. If you don't have enough, ask guests to bring their own or rent from local suppliers.
- Serve finger foods and utilize bread bowls and ice cream cones to avoid the need for tableware .
2. Compostables Collection Container
Your compostables collection container consists of a sturdy cardboard box and a compostable liner bag. The front panel of the container features easy-to-understand composting guidelines for you and your guests to follow. All leftover food (including meat, bones and dairy), food-soiled paper and the compostable tableware that comes with your kit goes straight into the box.
3. Educational Signage
Make sure your guests know they have entered a "Zero Waste Zone!"
- Table signs: These attractive paper signs can be placed on surfaces in high-traffic areas such as the entryway of your event or on dining tables to announce your Zero Waste commitment.
- Commingled container sign: We suggest you use your household recycling container or reserve collapsible recycling bins to collect bottles and cans for recycling at your event. We provide signs to make your container visible and to make the guidelines simple for guests. This sign can be affixed to the front of your bin during the event, and recycled or composted (if soiled) when the event is over. This sign is available in English and Spanish.
- Compost sign: This easy-to-follow guidelines sign comes affixed to your cardboard compost bin and includes pictures of the compostable products since many guests will mistake these items for recyclables, rather than compostables. Spanish guidelines are available as well.
Step 3: Place your order
Please allow three full business days for Eco-Cycle to fulfill your order. (If paying by check, you order may be delayed while payment clears. )
Step 4: Pick up your kit
You will receive email confirmation that your order is ready to pick up at the CHaRM between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday - Saturday.
**We do not ship kits.**
Step 5: Host your wildly successful and popular Zero Waste event
Make sure to remove trash cans from your event, since you've made them obsolete. Let guests know you're hosting a Zero Waste event and help them participate.
Step 6: Recycle and compost your materials
After your event, bring your compostables collection container to the Eco-Cycle <CHaRM> during business hours and deposit your compostable liner bag directly into the "compostables" bin. If it is wet or food-soiled, your cardboard compostables collection container can also be composted. If not soiled, it can be saved and reused at a future event or recycled as corrugated cardboard.
Your compostable materials will be delivered to a local composting facility, where they will become a nutrient-rich soil amendment.
Note: All compostable products in the kit are designed to be broken down in a commercial composting environment. While they will break down in a backyard compost pile, they will take a very long time. Commercial composting facilities function much like a backyard pile, but due to the increased size of and heat inside these compost piles, the compostable tableware will break down in 30-60 days. The increased heat also allows commercial compost facilities to accept the meat, bone and dairy that should not be included in backyard compost piles. We recommend you bring compostables to the CHaRM for composting in a local commercial facility.
Depending on the amount of commingled containers you collect, you may either set them out with your regular curbside collection, or take larger amounts with you to be recycled at the CHaRM.
Order your Zero Waste Event Kit
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Refund policy:
Eco-Cycle does not accept returns on unused quantities of compostable products. We do not issue refunds for unused products. Refunds will only be processed in the event of an order cancellation.
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