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Alexandra Smith

6 days ago

Landfill Diversion Laws & Events

Although every state has different waste management arrangements and laws, California has the most stringent in the nation. California laws SB 1383 and AB 2176 require compost, food recovery and recycling for events of over 2000 people.

Alexandra Smith

2 weeks ago

Setting Your Event Up for Success

The saying is that you learn more from your failures than your successes, but no one putting on an event wants their event to fail. Still, sometimes in spite of your best intentions, things don't go quite as planned. Here are some scenarios you might not have considered that can make your best laid plans go awry.

Alexandra Smith

2 months ago

Athens Services Tour

What could be more fun than spending an afternoon learning about trash? Aside from being a little bit, stinky, touring the Athens Services facility was actually a fascinating and eye-opening experience.

Alexandra Smith

4 months ago

Edible Packaging!

Eat a plastic wrapper? Um, no. Replace that plastic wrap with a biomaterial like seaweed? Well…that could be interesting. If you think about it, edible packaging has already been a thing for quite a long time. If you’ve eaten an ice cream cone, nibbled on sausage (which is encased in collagen and cellulose), or swallowed a pill (shelled in gelatin or it’s vegan-friendly alternative cellulose), then you’ve encountered edible packaging.

Alexandra Smith

5 months ago

Why You Should Recycle Cooking Oil from Your Events

PopUP CleanUP now offers oil recycling for large scale events as part of our efforts to encourage sustainability. Cooking oil, which was a luxury product used by the wealthy until industrialization changed the agricultural industry in the later 20th century, is harmful to the environment, detrimental to plumbing, and requires special handling and cleaning.

Alexandra Smith

6 months ago

Incredible Edible Ink!

When your Instagram feed is curated to prioritize event vendors and marketers—from caterers, to balloon artists, to florists and production designers—it’s hard not to marvel at the evolution of party planning and how elaborate and sophisticated it’s become. We now live in a world where one year olds have giant balloon sculptures pouring off themed custom builds wheres thirty years ago, the typical kid’s birthday pin the tail on the donkey.

Kenetia

8 months ago

How Many Porters Do I Need for My Event?

The short, straight answer (and the least helpful one) is: that depends.

Kenetia

8 months ago

Case Study: Las Vegas Activation

We were recently contracted to service a one day event for disadvantaged kids around the 2024 Super Bowl in Las Vegas. The activation...

Kenetia

8 months ago

Catersource + The Special Event 2024

This was our first time hanging out at Catersource + The Special Event at the Austin Convention Center where event producers, vendors,...

Kenetia

9 months ago

How Many Trash Cans & Dumpsters Do You Need For Your Event?

PopUP CleanUP has serviced a wide range of events from 150-person private fundraisers to 30,000 people street fairs. Several common...

Kenetia

9 months ago

Fête LA: Universal Studios Edition

We've waxed poetic about the organization Fête LA in the past. Not only is it THE event industry group to belong to in Los Angeles, it...

Kenetia

9 months ago

Experiential Marketing Must-Reads

There are a million books about advertising and marketing, including classics like Ogilvy on Advertising and Robert Cialdini's Influence: Th

Kenetia

10 months ago

Sustainable Consumables for Events

Sustainability is no longer a buzzword, but a prerequisite to putting on large scale events. Anyone who saw the after-effects of the

Kenetia

10 months ago

2024 Event Trends

For many of us in the event industry, there is BC—before Covid—and after lockdown. While it took most of 2021 and well into 2022 to...

Kenetia

10 months ago

Tips for Minimizing Cross-Contamination in Kitchen Cleaning

Cross-contamination is a serious issue when it comes to catering and running a restaurant. Not only do different types of food have differe

Kenetia

10 months ago

Dumpster Dive-in

As event cleaners, dumpsters and securing the right number of dumpsters are critical to the success of our efforts.

Kenetia

11 months ago

Say Goodbye to Goo

Ewwww. Goo! You scrub and pick, but instead of getting rid of it, it seems to metastasize and spread from the surface to your fingers,...

Kenetia

11 months ago

Case Study: Radwood Auto Show

Over the past few weeks PopUP CleanUP serviced the Radwood Auto Show at the Port of Los Angeles near Long Beach. Hagerty sponsors the...

Kenetia

11 months ago

Construction Cleaning Guide

Regular deep cleaning in a lived space can be daunting enough—dust and cobwebs that build up in corners covered by furniture or in hard...

Kenetia

11 months ago

Event Trade Show Booth Ideas

So you've signed up for the trade show floor and now you need to figure out what you're going to do with that space and how you're going...