What Clean Vibes Inc does

Clean Vibes Inc (legal entity Clean Vibes, LLC, North Carolina) is a specialized event waste management services company founded in 1997 by Anna Borofsky and currently co-led with Brandon Merritt. The company provides turnkey on-site waste management, recycling, composting, and post-event cleanup for outdoor festivals and events across North America (United States and Canada), with operational headquarters in Swansboro, NC and a west coast branch in San Francisco opened in 2014. Service delivery is event-driven: Clean Vibes works directly with event production staff to scope needs, deploy trained crew members, supervisors, and managers, coordinate with local waste haulers, set up collection stations, perform hand-picking micro-cleanup during events, and restore venues post-event. Adjacent offerings include greening consultation, a Green Team volunteer program that exchanges labor for event admission, and the Clean Vibes Trading Post sub-brand for material reuse.

The company's underlying technology is operational rather than software-based: a domain-specialized playbook for managing large-scale waste flows in outdoor festival environments, executed by seasonal labor crews coordinated through a volunteer-local registration portal. Documented outcomes include 85-91% diversion rates at marquee events (Outside Lands 2015/2016, Virgin Mobile Festival 2008), 41+ tons diverted at South Beach Wine & Food Festival 2024, and cumulative 25M+ pounds diverted from landfills since 2000.

The business model is professional services revenue per event, with quotes scoped to event size, duration, and waste management requirements; pricing is not publicly disclosed. Go-to-market is direct enterprise sales to festival producers and venue operators (Another Planet Entertainment, Superfly Productions, Bonnaroo organizer, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture as exclusive vendor since 2018, Off the Grid markets), supplemented by referral-driven new business and earned media coverage. The core team is lean (six named managers covering ownership, admin/HR, volunteer coordination, and field operations), with substantial reliance on seasonal paid crew and volunteers to scale event execution.

Name

Clean Vibes Inc

Legal name

Clean Vibes, LLC

Website

https://cleanvibes.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Clean Vibes is a North American event waste management services company founded in 1997 that provides turnkey on-site recycling, composting, and cleanup for outdoor festivals, arts venues, and food markets across the US and Canada.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Event Waste Management Services

NAICS

Services to Buildings and Dwellings (5617)

SIC

Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990)

akta.pro primary industry

Turnover Cleaning + Minor Maintenance/Handyman Add-Ons (HSAEAEAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Estate Cleanout Services (HSAKALAD)

Keywords

• Event waste management
• Festival recycling services
• Composting services
• Waste diversion consulting
• Sustainable event operations

Headquarters

HQ city

Swansboro

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Event Waste Management Services: Clean Vibes provides turnkey on-site waste management services for outdoor festivals and events, working directly with event producers to orchestrate cleanup operations from load-in to load-out. Services include setting up collection stations, servicing routes during festivals, hand-picking micro trash, and post-event site cleanup.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Clean Vibes provides turnkey on-site waste management, recycling, and composting services for outdoor festivals and events. Services cover the entire event lifecycle from load-in to load-out, including collection station setup, in-event servicing routes, attendee education, and post-event site cleanup, with coordination of local haulers for material removal. The company also runs the Clean Vibes Trading Post program for reuse and redistribution of festival materials.

Product overview

Clean Vibes Inc is a waste management company providing turnkey on-site waste management, recycling, and composting services for outdoor festivals and events across North America. The company operates a single unified service offering focused on event greening, consisting of core waste management services (setup, collection, diversion, and cleanup), greening consultation for event planning, and a volunteer Green Team program. Additional offerings include the Clean Vibes Trading Post for material reuse. The company was founded in 1997 and has expanded to serve events throughout the United States and Canada, including a west coast branch established in 2014.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Event Waste Management Services Turnkey on-site waste management, recycling, composting, and post-event cleanup services for outdoor festivals and events, covering load-in to load-out including collection station setup, in-event servicing routes, hand-picking micro trash, and coordination with local haulers. Target customers are event producers, festival organizers, and venue operators across North America.
• Greening Consultation Consulting service that helps event producers define and meet greening goals through resource coordination, planning, and integration with on-site waste management operations. Target customers are event producers and organizers seeking to formalize sustainability outcomes for their events.
• Clean Vibes Trading Post A reuse and redistribution program for festival materials intended to divert usable items from landfill. Target audience includes festival organizers and partner organizations seeking material reuse outcomes.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 25,000,000 pounds of waste diverted from landfills since 2000
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Fort Mason Center for Arts & CulturecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018Clean Vibes has been the exclusive greening vendor for the Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco since 2018. This partnership involves providing comprehensive waste management services for all events held at the venue, which hosts numerous food festivals, art shows, and cultural events throughout the year.
• Great Northeast ProductionsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerClean Vibes started in 1997 under the protective wing of Great Northeast Productions, performing services for all outdoor multi-day PHISH festivals. This initial partnership provided the foundation for Clean Vibes to establish their business model.
• Filco Carting CorporationcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerFilco Carting handles waste, recycling, and composting hauling services for Clean Vibes at several very large New York City outdoor events. Described as the best managed and most environmentally conscious cleaning company in the industry, providing highest diversion rates at lowest costs.
• Off the GridcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerClean Vibes provides greening services for Off the Grid food vendor markets throughout San Francisco, including Presidio Picnic and Fort Mason Friday markets. Worked 81 Off the Grid markets in 2019 alone.
• A Greener FestivalminorOthersIndustry organization that recognizes sustainable festival operations. Clean Vibes has worked with events that received Greener Festival Awards through this organization.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Stericycle: Specialized waste services company focused on regulated and specialty waste streams. Comparable in operating large-scale waste collection and compliance-driven disposal operations, though Stericycle targets healthcare and regulated waste rather than outdoor event greening.
• Waste Management Inc. Largest North American waste and environmental services provider, including event and venue waste services. Comparable as a broad incumbent with capacity to underprice or bundle greening offerings, though its core business is municipal and commercial collection rather than festival-specialist turnkey greening.
• Republic Services: Major US waste hauler and recycling services provider with national routing infrastructure. Comparable in the underlying waste hauling and recycling capability Clean Vibes coordinates with via partners like Filco Carting, but operates as a broad incumbent across residential, commercial, and industrial customers rather than specializing in event-based greening.
• Clean Harbors: Large publicly traded environmental and waste services company providing hazardous waste management, recycling, and industrial cleaning across North America. Comparable as a broad incumbent in environmental services with overlapping capabilities in waste handling and recycling, though it operates at much larger industrial scale rather than specializing in live event greening.
• Casella Waste Systems: Regional solid waste, recycling, and resource management company operating across the Northeast and Midwest. Comparable in recycling and diversion capability that Clean Vibes leverages through subcontractor haulers, though focused on municipal/CRL customers rather than live event verticals.
• Heritage-Crystal Clean: Provider of environmental and cleaning services including waste handling and recycling for industrial customers. Comparable as a broader environmental services peer with overlapping capabilities in handling diverse waste streams, though focused on industrial and automotive customers rather than live events.

Emerging players

• ACTenviro: Specialty environmental services firm offering waste management, recycling, and field services for industrial and event-related customers. Comparable as a smaller, more specialized player with event-services exposure, though broader in industrial verticals than Clean Vibes' festival focus.
• Quest Resource Management Group: Provider of waste and recycling solutions including sustainability programs for businesses and events. Comparable as an emerging sustainability-focused waste services peer with analogous capabilities in diversion programs and environmental reporting, though serving broader business customers.

Regional players

• Julie's Bicycle: UK-based nonprofit supporting sustainability in the arts and live events sector through consulting, tools, and reporting. Comparable as a sustainability-focused peer serving the same live events customer base, though UK-focused and offering advisory services rather than on-site waste operations.
• A Greener Festival: UK-based independent certification body that audits and awards music festivals for sustainability practices. Comparable as a UK-focused industry organization that Clean Vibes has worked with (Bonnaroo won its awards in 2007 and 2008), though it operates as a certification/consulting body rather than a direct waste service provider.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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