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The Bite of Oregon

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AT A GLANCE

 

EVENT TYPE: Food Festival, Fundraiser for Special Olympics

ATTENDANCE: 40,000

DURATION: 3 days

GOAL: Implement a composting program Portland’s largest food festival

RECOVERY RATE: 81%

 
 
 

SERVICES

 
 
 

  • Best practices research

  • Provided vendor training in collaboration with  SYSCO on using compostable food service ware

  • Recruited and trained green team volunteers

  • On site management of green team volunteers and sorting area

 
 
 

STRATEGY

 
 
 

Year 1

  • Get buy in from food vendors to use compostable food service ware and collect food scraps in kitchen prep areas and demonstration stages

Year 2

  • Rollout compost collection for attendees

  • Establish cohesive recovery stations with streams for recycling, compost, and landfill

  • Recruit green team volunteers to sort through all recycling and compost to remove contaminants before final disposal

  • Sourced specialty recycler to recycle all beer cups

Year 3

  • Get buy in from beer vendors to use compostable cups, expanding materials collected for composting

 
 
 

RESULTS

 
 
 

  • Drastically improved resource recovery rate; up from 22% to 65% in 2007 and then up to 81% in 2010.  

  • Established the event as one of the first events in Portland to implement a full scale front and back of house compost program

 
 
 

2007: 65% recovery Rate

Up from 22% in 2006

2010: 81% Recovery Rate

 
 
 
 

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