
Sustainable Events Planning: Everything You Need To Know
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Yorwaste serves a wide variety of industries, providing a complete waste management service across the whole of North Yorkshire.
Our events waste service provides a local, recycling-led collection and disposal solution that combines sustainability and great value.
Yorwaste’s dedicated events team provides a straightforward, local collection and disposal service throughout North Yorkshire and its neighboring districts combining sustainability with high volumes, enabling organisers of festivals, fairs and outdoor events to support their attendees in leaving nothing behind but footprints.
At Yorwaste, we believe waste disposal should be hassle-free.
From a simple set up with exceptional customer service as standard. It’s waste management just the way you want it.
With thousands of local businesses on board, from restaurants to retailers, it’s easy to see why Yorwaste is North Yorkshire’s leading waste collection and recycling partner.




We’re a perfect partner for any event dedicated to maximum recycling. Our recycling-led service aims to send as much waste as possible for reprocessing, and thanks to our network of regional waste transfer stations, it is likely to be transported over fewer road miles than with other providers, reducing CO2 in the process.
There are key legal considerations for event waste when an event takes place in a public area.
The event organiser, you may be responsible for litter picking and providing waste bins during the event and for appropriate waste collection and disposal.
Event waste management is the process of seamlessly managing the collection, transport and recycling or recovery of the waste that is disposed of at events like festivals, concerts, fairs and rallies.
Yorwaste is committed to the waste hierarchy of prevent, re-use, recycle and recover. Keeping it simple is the best way to ensure that your event is best placed to recycle where possible. We can also work with you to educate your attendees on the importance of recycling, through clear signage and labelling, making it simple for them to do so.
To keep things simple for your attendees and maximise your recycling potential, our main service focuses on a dry mixed recycling waste collection, which caters for drinks cans and plastic bottles, plus cards and paper such as discarded leaflets, flyers and booklets.
Separate collection points/ bins are available for glass bottles, food waste, clinical and other hazardous waste if needed.
General waste bins are supplied for the residual waste left over which can be recovered as energy from waste.
We offer a range of container sizes to suit all needs and requirements. These range from 240 litre, 360 litre, 660 litre and 1100 litre wheelie bins, plus a range of skip and REL’s and ROL’s from 8 cubic yards to 40 cubic yards. These waste containers can be dedicated to dry mixed recycling, glass or food waste, or be used for general waste collection.
A commercial event waste management company has the expertise and resources to provide a professional, safe and compliant waste collection and recycling or recovery service. Yorwaste’s advisers take an individual and bespoke approach, working with event coordinators to identify exactly what’s needed for a successful event with efficient waste handling and removal.
Our resources include a range of waste bins and containers to suit the venue and size of event. We provide signage and labelling to help and encourage members of the public, to identify and use the correct bin for the waste material.
Yorwaste is a fully licensed waste carrier and operator which performs to the highest levels of safety and compliance. You can be assured that your waste will be managed compliantly and ethically.
Whatever type of event you are organising, we can provide a waste management service to suit you.
We have provided events waste removal from indoor and outdoor occasions as diverse as music festivals, country fairs and shows, village fetes, sporting and leisure events, rallies and celebrations that take place over time frames spanning one day to several months.
Our primary service area is the City of York and North Yorkshire, so we provide events waste management services to towns like Northallerton, Thirsk, Catterick, Richmond, Leyburn, Bedale, Stokesley, Scarborough, Whitby, Malton, Pickering, Helmsley, Easingwold, Harrogate, Knaresborough, Ripon, Skipton, Tadcaster and, of course, York itself. We also cover the countryside locations between these towns.
Events are organised on different scales, from small to large, and have unique waste management priorities and requirements. For this reason, it’s difficult to quote prices online, however, you can rest assured that we aim for best value. To save you money, we tailor packages to our customers’ specific requirements and we’re always happy to provide free, no obligation quotes.
While we can respond and provide services at short notice, it’s always better to plan. As soon as you know the outline of your event, along with dates, please contact us – that way, we can work together to provide the best service that adds to the success of you

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