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A budding youth-led initiative is offering party and event planners an eco-friendly alternative to landfill-bound paper plates, plastic utensils and foam cups.

Boom Service, based in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, provides hosts with all the dinnerware they need to serve up to 150 guests. Dishes can be rented, and a team will deliver, set tables, clear and cart everything away in custom-made boxes to be cleaned off-site. Staffed by students in need of flexible, part-time work, the initiative is now in its third year and demand is growing.

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“What we like about Boom Service is it allows for us to not create a ton of waste from our events,” said Rachel Chainey, co-founder of Coop le Milieu. “We produce virtually no waste”

The east-end co-op hired Boom Service for two days this month as about 100 people were served home-cooked First Nations and Tibetan foods. The students, Chainey recounted, worked “super hard and they were super efficient all with a big smile.”