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Event Waste Sorting

Why are there no recycling containers?!  The Santa Barbara Bowl practices a single-stream for all event waste.  Once the concert is over, a crew of sorters come to sort the pile of waste between recycling, restaurant-level compost, r.cup collection, and landfill.  The Bowl has achieved as high as a 97% diversion from landfill rate.   Since COVID the average has dropped to approximately 75%.