Across Canada, MB Designs Inc. specializes in sustainable event design by helping organizations transform event materials into impactful community impact solutions through thoughtfully designed circular solutions.
Whether you have one foam core sign, 400 conference lanyards, or materials from a national convention, we’ll assist in identifying the best next life for your event material upcycling—ensuring that valuable resources remain in circulation and out of landfill.
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Every event leaves behind materials that can significantly contribute to community impact solutions. Choose a material below to discover its next life through event material upcycling and sustainable event design.

Transform retired conference lanyards into a permanent custom installation that celebrates your organization's people, milestones, and shared experiences. This innovative approach exemplifies community impact solutions and showcases sustainable event design. Designed for corporate offices, conference centres, and public spaces, each installation becomes a lasting reminder of your event's legacy while promoting event material upcycling.

A unique employee engagement activity that transforms retired conference lanyards into individual woven artwork. This initiative is ideal for corporate team building, employee appreciation events, conference workshops, and sustainability initiatives, while also exemplifying event material upcycling. Participants create and take home a lasting reminder of your event, contributing to community impact solutions and supporting sustainable event design.

Recovered conference lanyards are transformed into ready-to-use art kits that inspire creativity, collaboration, and circular thinking in schools and community youth programs, showcasing innovative community impact solutions. Every kit not only extends the impact of your event but also promotes sustainable event design by giving the next generation a hands-on connection to sustainability through event material upcycling.

Conference signs continue to tell a story long after the event ends. Instead of ending up in a landfill, retired foam core signage can be transformed through event material upcycling into educational clipboards, community resources, and hands-on corporate workshops that support youth. This approach not only fosters community impact solutions but also extends the life of your event materials. Whether you have one sign or one hundred, every project contributes to sustainable event design and makes a difference.

Large-format event graphics are built to last. Our Fabric & Vinyl Banner Program offers community impact solutions by giving these materials a meaningful second life through innovative circular design and event material upcycling. Together, we can ensure that high-quality materials continue to create value long after the event is over, promoting sustainable event design.

Transform retired event vinyl into custom sticker packs as part of innovative community impact solutions that support youth programs and educational initiatives. Designed to inspire creativity and promote sustainable event design, every sticker pack allows youth to connect with your event's story through learning and imagination, extending the life of event materials in the process.
You don't need hundreds of materials to create community impact solutions. Some of our favorite projects begin with a single conversation. Whether it's one foam core sign, a handful of banners, or an entire convention's worth of event materials, every project contributes to a larger movement toward more thoughtful, sustainable event design and event material upcycling. There are no minimum quantities to work with us. Our goal is simple: Help more organizations take their first step toward keeping event materials in circulation and out of landfill. Because meaningful change doesn't begin with the biggest project. It begins with the first one.




Every project tells a story. Explore how organizations across Canada are utilizing community impact solutions by transforming event materials through event material upcycling to create a measurable legacy and promote sustainable event design.
You don't need to know all the answers; you just need to understand what event materials you have.
Book a complimentary 30-minute Circular Event Strategy Session, where we'll explore the best circular opportunities for enhancing your sustainable event design.
During your session, we'll:
✓ Review your event materials
✓ Discuss your sustainability goals
✓ Recommend the best circular pathways
✓ Identify community impact solutions
✓ Explore employee engagement activations
✓ Discuss legacy installation opportunities
✓ Help you get started—no matter how much material you have.
Yes. We work with agencies, conference organizers, corporations, associations, venues, hotels and event vendors across Canada. Event materials can be shipped directly to MB Designs Inc., and we're also developing venue collection partnerships to enhance our community impact solutions, making material recovery even easier.
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Whether you have one foam core sign from a smaller event or 10,000 lanyards from a national convention, we're happy to assist. We believe every circular journey starts with a single step, and our goal is to make it easy for organizations of every size to participate in event material upcycling.
Our Circular Event Solutions currently include:
- Conference lanyards
- Foam core, coroplast, falcon board signage
- Fabric & vinyl banners
- Vinyl production off-cuts
As our circular ecosystem grows, we'll continue to introduce new material pathways to support sustainable event design.
Every project begins with a complimentary Circular Event Strategy Session where we review your event materials, discuss your sustainability goals and available project budget, and recommend the circular solutions that best fit your organization.
Absolutely. Many of our Circular Event Solutions are designed as employee engagement experiences, interactive conference activations, corporate sustainability workshops, and purpose-driven team-building activities.
Whether employees are transforming conference materials into community resources, participating in collaborative Legacy Installations, or taking part in hands-on upcycling workshops, each experience encourages teamwork, creativity, sustainability education, and measurable community impact. These activations are ideal for organizations looking to strengthen workplace culture while supporting their environmental, social, and corporate sustainability goals.
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Every Circular Event Solutions project includes project-specific impact documentation outlining the materials collected, the circular pathway selected, and the measurable environmental and community outcomes created through your project.
With your permission, selected projects may also be developed into a professionally designed Community Impact Case Study that showcases your organization's sustainability leadership and the lasting impact created through your event materials. These reports help organizations communicate meaningful, evidence-based sustainability stories with employees, stakeholders, clients, and the broader community.
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