DISHrupt™

Imagine an event without disposable food cartons and cups filling the bins. We bring you DISHrupt™ from Sustainable Queenstown.

Disrupting our dependency on disposables, DISHrupt™ provides onsite solutions to events, through the provision of reusable dishes and cups. In its first year, DISHrupt™ displaced the use of 50,000 disposables by providing reusable dishes.

You may have seen DISHrupt™ at Luma, Queenstown Winter Festival, IronMan, and Searchlight Brewery and now we are now bringing our initiative to your events! Plus, if you're planning an event at Memorial Hall, DISHrupt will be suggested to you for a hiring option.

By hiring DISHrupt™ for your event, not only will you be helping in the fight against disposable servewear, you will also help spread awareness of the awful environmental impact of single-use items.

Available DISHrupt™ items for your event:

790 metal plates – 24cm diameter
180 metal side plates – 20cm diameter
100 metal cups (more available on request)
70 reusable plastic tumblers
200 forks
200 knives
200 spoons
100 teaspoons

You can DISHrupt™ your event with a donation of $0.50 per item, with a minimum donation of $100 per hire through our Givealittle account. DISHrupt™ is offered by Sustainable Queenstown, a not-for profit tackling sustainability challenges in the district. Your donations will go back into making positive social and environmental impacts our community.

Support for DISHrupt™

“DISHrupt has allowed us to be part of a collaborative solution to an ever-growing problem in our district, where visitor numbers are increasing rapidly and so is waste. Events allow us to take charge of how we serve food and beverage and Novotel has been able to pioneer this solution with Sustainable Queenstown.”
Novotel Queenstown

“The conversations DISHrupt sparked with people who were using the metal plates is the start of a huge change in waste minimisation.”
DISHrupt volunteer

“DISHrupt is an innovative solution which LUMA is proud to support. We have chosen to work with Sustainable Queenstown to provide us with a framework for event waste management.”
LUMA Southern Light Project

DIShrupt™ your event

If you’re ready to DIShrupt™ your event, please complete the form below or get in touch by emailing us.

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