The North Brooklyn Parks Alliance gathered leaders from nightlife, public space, sanitation and environmental advocacy at a summit on March 31 to examine how large-scale events in New York City can cut the waste they send to landfill and what it would take to expand those practices citywide.

The event, billed as “Ready or Not, Recycle! An Evening on the Future of Low-Waste Events in NYC,” ran from 5:30 to 9 p.m. at Vesper, 25 Kent Ave., on the venue’s fourth floor in Brooklyn, according to the organization, which is also known as NBK Parks. The organization described the program as a cross-sector panel summit and said it required an RSVP because space was limited.

NBK Parks framed the evening around a single question, which it posed as whether New York can celebrate at scale without sending all event waste to landfill. The organization said it has been testing what sanitation reform could look like in real time, piloting new approaches to how concerts, festivals and large public gatherings manage and reduce waste.