Free waste insights for your venue or festival.
Waste Sream tracking in the Rubbish Portal is free forever. Paid features unlock deeper impact features later.
The Rubbish Portal does a lot more than tracking rubbish, but our core focus has always been on waste impacts. That's why we've made it free for everyone. Create a free Rubbish Portal account and start monitoring waste streams and their carbon impact across your stadium, arena or festival. Use the data for ESG storytelling and basic reporting, then upgrade to Starter or Advanced when you're ready to track everything.
Free waste and carbon tracking for one venue or event.
Designed for stadiums, arenas, festivals & large venues.
Upgrade to Starter or Advanced once you've proven the value.
Get real value from the free plan on day one
Your free account includes core features for logging waste collections, plus simple carbon insights you can drop straight into ESG reports, sponsor decks or internal updates.
Live impact across the Portal
2,174,227 kg
Total waste logged across venues and festivals using Rubbish Portal.
Start free on waste & carbon, then upgrade to track everything
Every account begins on the free plan for waste streams and their carbon impact. Starter and Advanced are paid upgrades that unlock deeper analytics, reusables efficiency monitoring and single-use capture rates across your venue or festival.
Free · Track waste impacts
Our most basic account for getting started. Track your waste, link streams to waste managers, and see live impacts and reporting — with no commitment.
Included features
- Log waste streams and collections for your site.
- Connect streams to waste managers for accurate reporting.
- See live totals, diversion, and basic waste carbon figures.
- Simple dashboards tailored to large venues & events, plus export-ready figures for ESG and sponsor reporting.
Starter · Focus on your biggest impacts
The essential next step beyond waste-only tracking. Starter adds your main carbon drivers — so you can spot hotspots across packaging, travel, utilities, and food.
Included features
- Everything in Free, plus the core tools to monitor carbon alongside waste.
- Track impacts from recyclable food/drink packaging, utilities, and food.
- Measure visitor, artist, and crew travel emissions across events.
- High-level reporting for repeat events, seasons, or tours, with built-in support.
Advanced · Track your full operational footprint
Built for venue groups, major festivals, and service providers who need end-to-end waste and carbon analytics — across every impact category, with advanced visuals and deeper benchmarking.
Included features
- Everything in Starter, plus the full suite of impact categories and early access to new features.
- Add reusable packaging, building materials, goods transport, overnight stays, and custom carbon inputs.
- Deeper insight tools like Sankey diagrams and maps.
You'll land on the free plan by default when you create an account. Paid features can be added from within the portal.
How signup works
You'll always start on the free waste streams plan. Paid plans only come into play once you've tried the Rubbish Portal with your own data and know what you need.
Create your free account
Fill in a short form about your company with some basic details. No card required.
Start tracking waste
Log waste streams and collections to see live waste and carbon figures you can share with your team or clients. You own your data, and can delete it at any time.
Upgrade inside the Portal
When the time is right, switch on paid features as you expand your scope, or get the Starter or Advanced package giving you access to bundles of features at a discount.
No pressure to choose a paid plan today. Just get started on the free plan and see what you can measure for your next season, matchday or festival.
Partner discounts for Starter & Advanced
Work with partners in the events space? Members and clients of selected organisations receive promo codes that can be applied when upgrading to paid plans inside the Portal.
Have a code already? Sign up free, then enter it when you activate Starter or Advanced subscriptions, or add features.
