Event Lending Library

Call customer service to place an order for dumpsters:

360-892-5370 (Mon – Fri 8am to 5pm)

Composter/Recyclers are community members who are experts in reducing garbage and creating recycling/composting systems. You can invite a CR volunteer to join your event planning team. CRs can help you design a more sustainable event and help train your garbage/recycle volunteers.
Call 564-397-7333 or email  Info@ClarkCountyComposts.org.

Need additional volunteers to help with set up, running waste stations, clean up, or any other event tasks? Try these sites for recruiting volunteers. Many event hosts offer volunteers perks like free admission, free meals/drinks, coupons, t-shirts etc.

• Volunteer Match
• Hands on Greater Portland
• Nextdoor

Events and vendors should be aware of applicable laws. Find details at www.ecology.wa.gov

1. Event Recycling Law (RCW 70A.200.100): The law states that “in communities where there is an established curbside service and where recycling service is available to businesses, a recycling program must be provided at every official gathering and at every sport facility by the vendors who sell beverages in single-use aluminum, glass, or plastic bottles or cans.” This went into effect in Washington on July 22, 2007.
2. Plastic Product Degradability Act (RCW 70A.455): As of Jan. 1, 2024, compostable products need to be labeled according to the law. These types of products and packaging go in the garbage and are not allowed in recycling or organics/food waste carts.
3. The 2021 Plastics Law (RCW 70A.245) covers the following items:
   1. Plastic Bag Ban prohibiting single-use plastic carryout bags.
   2. Single-use serviceware ban restricts restaurants and food service businesses from automatically providing single-use serviceware with customer orders.
   3. Expanded polystyrene ban prohibits the sale of specific types of expanded polystyrene products.

Expecting thousands of guests? Short on volunteers? Hosts of large community festivals may want to hire a team to set up garbage/recycle receptacles, empty receptacles during the event, and clean up after the event. Some organizations to consider hiring include:

• Elysium Events, 503-789-2018
• ZipEco, 888-527-5868
• Mabry Center, 564-397-6045

If you host several events per year, you may like to purchase your own set of recycling receptacles from ClearStream.  Find out more at ClearStreamrecycling.com.