If you want to do a successful events clean-up, you have to manage it like a small business. You need a cleaning plan, as well as people and resources to ensure that the plan is carried out effectively. It doesn’t matter if you’re at a racecourse, a theatre, or a music festival field – where there are people, there is a mess. Even the best-intentioned attendees leave litter and traipse dirt behind them. And yet, so much thought gets put into preparing a big event that venue managers are often left overwhelmed by the inevitable aftermath.