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TIERS OF SERVICE

For your convenience, we have broken the Zero Waste Events Project into four basic tiers of services. You simply select how much or how little you would like, and Garten Zero Waste Events staff will make it happen!

Tier 1: Quick & Clean

Call to reserve the zero waste recycling and composting containers from Garten Services. Sign your promise to return receptacles as agreed. By e-mail you will receive: Zero Waste Check List and access to Garten’s Zero Waste Event Guide. Upon pick up of your zero waste containers, you will be given set up instructions for the containers.

Tier 2: Quiet as a Mouse

Garten Zero Waste Events staff deliver and set up the recycling containers prior to the event start, then pick up the containers at the end of the event. Minimal service requirements for Garten program staff; minimal intrusion into the event itself. A small fee for transport and staff time. Plus you will receive all the benefits of Tier 1.

Tier 3: Quite a Deal

Garten Zero Waste Events staff deliver, set up and actually staff the Zero Waste Stations during your event – helping the attendees choose the correct container and educating attendees about zero waste. When the event concludes, our Zero Waste Events staff disassemble and haul away the containers, as well as all the materials diverted from the trash that were collected at the event. A moderate flat fee is charged.

Tier 4: Quintessential

Garten Zero Waste Events staff service the solid waste/recycling needs of the event in its entirety, from the planning stages through implementation—including set-up, on-site staffing, even clearing tables if you wish. We then separate compostables from recyclables on site at the event (either visible to attendees so they can learn more about zero waste efforts or shielded by Garten’s professional Zero Waste Events project trailer, depending on your preference). This is the “Cadillac” of zero waste services! A fee will be charged to cover some costs.

Garten Zero Waste Events

Garten Zero Waste Events Project helps people reduce and recycle waste. However, we add another unique layer of service. We not only provide the public access to effective means to recycle/compost at gatherings and events – but we enable people with disabilities to help educate the general public on various aspects of reducing, reusing and recycling.

MINIMIZING OUR COMMUNITY’S WASTE STREAM. Garten Zero Waste Events Project will help reduce flow of trash to limited disposable resources. Oregon led the way in the 1970’s, and today recycling has become a national habit – a ritual now practiced by over 100 million people every day. Yet recycling alone will not end our dependency on landfills and incinerators, nor reverse the rapid depletion of our natural resources and resulting energy consumption. Rather than using our region’s dollars to build new landfills or incinerators, Garten’s Zero Waste Events Project represents an investment in reducing, recycling and composting items previously regarded merely as items to be discarded and disposed. Supporting Garten Zero Waste Events will reduce your costs by eliminating unnecessary trash disposal systems.

EMPLOYING PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES. The Zero Waste Event project is staffed by people who fulfill Garten’s mission. They interface with the general public and educate them on ways to walk more lightly on the earth. Garten Services exists to provide jobs for people with disabilities and has successfully fulfilled this mission since 1970. Our new Zero Waste Events Project is staffed by a team of zero waste workers and project coordinator / job coach, giving you the comfort and confidence that your event will result in a superior sustainability footprint.

CREATING JOBS. Garten is creating jobs by directing our precious human resources to the task of repurposing waste, rather than sending it ito landfills. Good for the community, good for the environment, good for people with disabilities.

SEEING THINGS A NEW WAY. “Zero waste” is a new way of looking at our community’s waste stream. Instead of seeing used materials as garbage in need of disposal, discarded items can instead be seen as valuable resources. These items represent jobs for people with disabilities, financial opportunity, personal independence – and raw material for new products or other purposes.

DEMONSTRATING OUR DEDICATION TO THE ENVIRONMENT. Garten Services is committed to sustaining the environment and our community. You can demonstrate your commitment to our environment by using our zero waste services at your events or gatherings. Garten makes it easy for you. Choose from four levels of service ranging from simply borrowing our recycling containers, to letting Garten do it all including the sorting and transporting for you. A menu of available services is on the back page. Garten’s Zero Waste Project will help our community be recognized as an environmental community. We help people who want to make a positive environmental action know how to do it. Ultimately, everyone “wins”.

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For more information, contact:

Judi Richards
Garten Zero Waste Events Coordinator
Garten Services, Inc.
(503) 581-4472, ext. 3901
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John Matthews
Sustainability Coordinator
Garten Services, Inc.
(503) 581-4472, ext. 3303
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TREAD LIGHTLY

Garten has always been a leader in recycling services.

Now we offer a comprehensive resource recovery service that moves well beyond basic recycling and will dramatically reduce waste while creating new jobs.

Turn your next event into a zero-waste event with Garten. You can make a difference. We’ll make it easy.