Taking a Creative & Practical Approach to Sustainable Events
Event Cleaning, Waste Management & Recycling for Big Events
Event Cleaning, Waste Management & Recycling for Big Events
Recycling Ninjas keep the grounds clean and the recycling sorted at festivals, fairs, tournaments and stadium events across Ontario, New York and Texas. One contract, one on-site manager, a locally hired crew sized to your crowd.
Trusted by the Great New York State Fair, the RBC Canadian Open, the National Bank Open and the Toronto FIFA Fan Festival (2026, working with GFL Environmental).
Three ways to hire the Ninjas
We don’t plan events, rather we help those that do, do so in a more sustainable manner. Pick the piece you need or hand us the whole thing.
Event cleaning services
Pre-event venue prep, porters and litter crews during the show, restroom and portable toilet attendants, and the post-event clean-up so you hand the site back on time. Crews from a few dozen to more than 600.
Event waste management and recycling
Staffed recycling stations, hand-sorted recycling and organics, back-of-house sorting, dumpster and hauling coordination, and a diversion report after the event you can show sponsors, the city and your board.
Event garbage and recycling bin rentals
Steel X-frame bins for garbage, recycling and organics, with billboard signage and custom labels, delivered and picked up. Rent the bins on their own or as part of a cleaning and waste contract.
Need help further upstream? We also run sustainability consulting and carbon footprint work for events. See all services.
Why event organizers call the Ninjas
Built for big crowds
Six seasons at the Great New York State Fair with a local crew of 600 or more working morning, evening and overnight shifts. Multi-day, tens of thousands of people a day, overnight turnarounds: that is our normal.
Local crews, hired and trained by us
For every event we recruit, screen and train Recycling Ninjas from the host community and lead them with our own supervisors and on-site manager. No temp agencies.
Cleaning and waste under one manager
When the same team runs the litter crews and the sorting, recycling stays clean enough to be accepted at the facility. You get one contract and one phone call when something changes.
Transparent, adjustable quotes
We quote on a management-plus-cost basis. When the attendance forecast, the hours or the site plan change, the budget moves with them and you can see why.
Still a lean, mean, fighting machine
Barrie, Ontario, and wherever the event is
Green Event Ninjas is fiercely committed to making sustainable events easy. We bring the equipment, the bags and the gloves (so many gloves), and we leave your site cleaner than we found it. More about us.
Trusted at some of North America's biggest events
Fairs, tournaments, fan festivals and city-square events, most of them multi-day, most of them huge.
The Great New York State Fair
Syracuse, NY
Grounds and restroom cleaning across the fairgrounds, buildings and temporary trailers, plus waste transport across the venue. Six seasons since 2021 with a locally hired crew of 600 or more, working morning, evening and overnight shifts through set-up, the 13-day fair and tear-down.
RBC Canadian Open
Golf Canada, Ontario
Cleaning and waste management for the national open since 2019, through venue moves and record attendance, and since 2022 a tournament-wide sustainability strategy alongside it.
Toronto FIFA Fan Festival (2026)
Toronto, ON, working with GFL Environmental
Cleaning and waste crews at the city’s official FIFA World Cup 26 fan festival, working with GFL Environmental.
Pokémon GO Fest 2024
Randall's Island, New York City
Cleaning and waste management for a multi-day fan festival on Randall’s Island.
National Bank Open
Tennis Canada, Toronto
Cleaning and waste crews for the 12-day tournament, with sorted recycling and organics alongside the litter and grounds work.
CPKC Women's Open
Golf Canada
Pre-event bin placement, litter and vending-area clean-up during play, hand-sorted recycling, a post-event clear-out, plus an organics program and a can-return drive for charity.
Our crews have also worked the Toronto Waterfront Marathon, NYC Pride Fest, WayHome and Boots and Hearts (camping festivals of roughly 40,000 and 35,000 attendees), NXNE Festival Village and the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games. See our clients and previous work.
Where we work
Green Event Ninjas is based in Barrie, Ontario, and staffs events across the province: Toronto and the GTA, Hamilton, Ottawa and the festival sites in between. In the United States we work across New York State, from Syracuse to New York City, and in Houston and the wider Texas market. Somewhere else? Ask. We have travelled for the right event before. Antigonish included (where?!).
Request a Quote
Planning an event and need cleaning, waste management or bins? Email hello@greeneventninjas.com or tell us about your event below. We reply within one business day to set up a quick call. Let the ninjas handle the details.
Looking for event work rather than event services? Head to our jobs page.
Want to work an event with us?
Every season we hire and train hundreds of Recycling Ninjas for fairs, festivals and tournaments in Ontario and New York.