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o Ruritan Rodeo/ Car shows <br /> • Areas of waste tend to be isolated <br /> o Casual finger-foods: Pizza, hotdogs, popsicles = NO serving ware or packaging! <br /> TM <br /> • Race Without a Trace ; best practices <br /> • Electronic goodie-bag <br /> • Reusable equipment and banners <br /> • Large thermos for paper water cups, not bottles <br /> Farm to Fork <br /> • Organizer provides ALL compostables to food vendors <br /> • One fork/participant <br /> • Paper table toppers <br /> • Next to no need for sorting <br /> Extreme Waste Diversion!!! <br /> • 15 pounds "true trash" (plastic film contaminated with food waste or grease) <br /> • 960 lbs. food and related paper waster composted <br /> • 590 lbs. common recyclables (glass, wine, and beer bottles, paper table toppers, <br /> aluminum foil pans, very few plastic drink bottles) <br /> • 25 lbs. corrugated cardboard <br /> • 20 lbs. of clean plastic film such as ice bags <br /> • 1 lb. of wine corks (donated locally for creative reuse) <br /> 1611 total pounds <br /> 1596 diverted = 99% waste diversion <br /> Cost? Yes. <br /> • 3 recycling staff$12.50/9 hours = $337.50 <br /> • Trucks and containers <br /> • Volunteer solicitation and organizing <br /> • Composting collection $80 or more <br /> Large Events <br /> • 10-30,000 people <br /> • Mix of food and vendor types <br /> • Lots of variables <br /> • High volume of waste materials <br /> • Vendors MUST be on board + organizer support/enforcement <br /> • MOU with organizers <br /> • Vendor contract specifies compostable serving ware <br /> Hillsborough Hog Day: Most environ-"mental"-ly improved <br /> • 0-85% in only 10 years! <br /> • Incremental improvements: <br /> • Communication, booth placement and amount of material diverted <br /> • Vendor contract to use only compostable or recyclable serving ware; enforced by <br /> organizer <br /> • Organizers paid for compost collection <br />