St. Louis Earth Day’s Recycling On the Go is the region’s first wide-scale event recycling program. Our goal is to reduce the negative environmental impact of events and festivals by reducing and recycling a portion of the waste they generate. We offer a full range of services from managing event recycling to full event greening and solid waste management.

• To inquire about our program, email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .
• To request a quote for a large event (> 500 attendees, large commercial festivals and events), please fill out the online form to begin the process, click HERE.

PLEASE NOTE: This is not a free service. We can only consider requests that already have funding for solid waste removal. Please allow two weeks for a reply.

• To request bins for our small event community loan program (< 500 attendees, small community gatherings), click HERE.

In order to minimize administrative costs to our small non-profit, we ask for serious inquiries only. Please allow an appropriate amount of time for us to consider your request.

Our organization relies on grants, corporate sponsorship, and event contracts to sustain our programming. Through our 2008 Recycling On the Go efforts, we diverted the following materials from area landfills, most of which were collected in just the summer and fall seasons:

Recycling weight: 25 tons

Recycling volume: 453 cubic yards

Oil weight, converted to bio fuel: 4.5 tons

Edible food value donated to area food pantries: $3667

Food weight, compost: 627 lbs

Total diversion by weight: 28 tons

Total diversion by volume: 458 cubic yards

*(estimates based on best data available)


In 2008…
Our program was represented on 71 event days and experienced by 614,365 people.
Our recycling bins were utilized at 11 small event community functions.
We partnered with nearly 20 area non-profit organizations and for-profit businesses to ensure environmental consciousness at events big and small in the St. Louis region.

St. Louis Earth Day offers thanks to the generous sponsor of our program supporters:

The St. Louis County Health Department
St. Louis-Jefferson Solid Waste Management District
The Missouri Department of Natural Resources
The Boeing Employees For Environmental Protection Fund

Recycling On the Go is made possible in part by generous grants from: