Our Clients & Previous Work
Fairs, tournaments, fan festivals and city-square events, most of them multi-day and most of them huge. Here is where the Recycling Ninjas have been, what we did there and what it proves. Our services are event cleaning, event waste management and recycling, and event bin rentals.
Current and recent work
The Great New York State Fair
Syracuse, NY. 2021 to 2026, six seasons
Grounds and restroom cleaning across the fairgrounds, the buildings and the temporary trailers, plus waste transport across the venue, through set-up, the 13-day fair and tear-down. Every season we recruit, screen and train a crew of 600 or more from the Syracuse area and run them in morning, evening and overnight shifts under our own supervisors and on-site manager. It is the largest single event cleaning operation we know of in the northeast.
Services: event cleaning, waste management.
RBC Canadian Open
Golf Canada. Ontario, 2019 to 2026
We started with Golf Canada in 2019, when the national open left Glen Abbey for Hamilton Golf and Country Club and broke attendance records in a venue that had never hosted a crowd like it. We have run the tournament’s cleaning and waste management ever since, through the pandemic pause and every venue move, and since 2022 we have also built the tournament-wide sustainability strategy alongside it: waste, carbon, water and energy.
Services: event cleaning, waste management, sustainability consulting.
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: three-stream stations across the site, back-of-house sorting and the daily turnaround that a month-long, city-run festival demands.
Services: event cleaning, waste management.
National Bank Open
Tennis Canada. Toronto, 2025
Cleaning and waste crews for the 12-day tournament at Sobeys Stadium, with sorted recycling and organics running alongside the litter and grounds work. Twelve days of sessions, day and night, is exactly the kind of run our crews are built for.
Services: event cleaning, waste management.
CPKC Women's Open
Golf Canada. Calgary 2024, Mississauga 2025, earlier years in Vancouver and Ontario
Pre-event bin placement, litter and vending-area clean-up during play, hand-sorted recycling and a post-event clear-out, plus an organics program and a can-return drive for charity. The tournament moves every year and so do we.
Services: event cleaning, waste management, bin rentals.
Pokémon GO Fest 2024
Randall's Island, New York City
Cleaning and waste management for a multi-day fan festival on Randall’s Island, with recycling and garbage stations across the park and a crew hired in New York for the run.
Services: event cleaning, waste management.
Toronto Waterfront Marathon
Canada Running Series. Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, 2025
Zero waste stations at the finish-line festival in Nathan Phillips Square, staffed by Recycling Ninjas who sort recycling and organics as tens of thousands of runners and supporters come through, plus the load-out when the square hands back to the city.
Services: waste management, bin rentals.
Our crews have also worked cleaning and waste at NYC Pride Fest.
Earlier work
WayHome and Boots and Hearts
Burl's Creek, Oro-Medonte, ON. 2017 to 2018
Sustainability advisor to the successful bid for the cleaning and waste contract at two camping festivals of roughly 40,000 and 35,000 people, then part of the planning and on-site delivery, finished ahead of schedule. In 2018 our founder’s social enterprise, Cans for Good, collected more than 32,000 CAD in can deposits on site and donated what was left after costs to local sports teams. Beer cans!
Vegandale Food Drink Festival
Toronto, New York, Chicago and Houston, TX. 2017 to 2018
Full cleaning and waste management for the festival series in four cities, from the first hand-sorted recycling stream in 2017 to a back-of-house organics program that diverted the compostable waste of more than 100 food vendors at each 2018 event. We hired locally in every city, Houston included, and paid fair wages.
NXNE Festival Village
Yonge-Dundas Square, Toronto
Cleaning and recycling for the downtown festival village: streets kept ship-shape through the weekend, vendors and organizers helped with whatever came up, and the square cleaned overnight in time to reopen each morning.
Toronto 2015 Pan American Games
Toronto, ON
Our founder, James Watson, was a Venue Manager for Catering, Cleaning and Waste at two Games venues, managing the relationship between the Organizing Committee and the catering and cleaning contractors so the Games’ standards of cleanliness and service held.
Convocation at Ryerson University
Toronto, ON
A waste diversion program for the twice-yearly convocation ceremonies, run on site (bin placement, signage, collection) with daily waste audits that fed a report and recommendations for a campus-wide sustainable events program.
MIT Sustainability Summit
Cambridge, MA
Sustainable event management systems and procedures for the annual summit, after which its leadership team committed to publishing the summit’s first event sustainability report.
Beerworking
Toronto, ON
A craft beer tasting and networking series built around environmental and social sustainability: environmentally conscious caterers and brewers, and a near-zero-waste program to keep the evening out of landfill.
Planning something big?
Tell us the dates, the site and the crowd. We’ll be in touch to set up a call. Let the ninjas handle the details.