The Rubbish Portal helps events and venues measure their environmental impact quickly and credibly - without needing an expensive consultant-led process.

Most teams want a sustainability manager or consultant to spend time reducing impact, but the reality is they often get stuck manually chasing data just to work out the footprint. The Portal fixes that by making measurement easy to do in-house, so your sustainability support (internal or external) can focus on reduction, not spreadsheets.

You can start free by tracking waste management and the related carbon emissions, then upgrade module-by-module as you’re ready to measure more (food, travel, energy, procurement, and more).

At its core, it’s a shared workflow that makes data capture simple across organisers, venues, suppliers, vendors and waste partners - turning inputs into clear insights you can act on.

• Waste & recycling performance (free to start): Measure recycling rates, end-of-life outcomes (e.g., reuse, recycling, landfill, incineration) and the carbon linked to waste management.

• Food, packaging & materials impact: Measure the carbon and material-use impact of food and drink, packaging, building materials and other purchased items - so you can target the biggest hotspots in your supply chain.

• Travel & transport emissions: Track visitor travel, artists and crew travel, plus goods and freight transport emissions - often one of the largest drivers of event or venue footprints. 

• Utilities & operations footprint: Capture water, energy, fuel and sewage data and convert it into clear, comparable emissions insights.

• Designed for the real world: Instead of one person chasing everything, stakeholders input the data they already hold once, in a structured way — improving completeness and reducing admin.

• Save time, save money, improve outcomes: Cut manual reporting effort and free up sustainability time for reduction work — supporting better decisions, lower costs and stronger compliance evidence.

• Credible methodology: Built on recognised approaches, using established emissions factors (incl. UK Government DEFRA conversion factors) and alignment with the GHG Protocol.