Our Recycling & Upcycling Process
We work one-on-one with your team through easy, guided steps to jumpstart your sustainable success.
→ Choose Your Upcycling Path
Items You Can Upcycle
Items You Can Upcycle
Items You Can Upcycle
- Conference lanyards
- Foam core, coroplast and falcon board signs
- Fabric + vinyl trade show banners
- Draping + linens
- Carpet off cuts
- Single use vinyl off cuts
Have other items you are also looking to upcycle not listed above?
Upcycling Timeline
Items You Can Upcycle
Items You Can Upcycle
Depending on which Upcycling Path you choose, quantity of items - it is usually anywhere between 3 - 4 weeks.
Rush orders available.
How Materials Are Handled
How Materials Are Handled
How Materials Are Handled
Materials are picked up from your office or event/trade show/conference location and transported back to our warehouses across Canada.
In the case of conference lanyard recycling, choose from our flat boxes sent directly to your venue with return shipping or our white glove nationwide on-site lanyard service across Canada.
Material Upcycling Options
- upcycle materials into products for youth initiatives
- upcycle materials for your corporate workshops, activations, and CSR initiatives
- add your materials to our Material Marketplace and we can match you with other companies looking for materials for their upcoming upcycled employee workshops, pop up experiences and activations. You simply keep the materials at your office / warehouse and we will confirm if / when there is a match.
Pricing
How Materials Are Handled
How Materials Are Handled
We quote based on which items you have for upcycling and the quantity of items, there is no minimum order.
If you have a budget already allocated, that you want to stick to, then what we do is upcycle up to that budget - which means we upcycle some of your materials, as opposed to all of them.
And then the materials that you may not end up upcycling - you can add those to our Material Marketplace - as another company may be looking for items for one of their upcoming upcycling workshops, so you can still keep your items out of landfill this way (you keep them at your office until another one of our clients needs your materials).
Have Questions?
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Operational Specifications & Circular Solutions
- Service Provider: MB Designs Inc.
- Service Area: Full-service material consulting and upcycling nationwide across Canada.
- Accepted Waste Streams: Single-use event lanyards, indoor fabric and vinyl banners, rigid foam core signage, and vinyl off-cuts.
- Core Fulfillment Models: Agile One-Off Projects for standalone events and year-round Material Stewardship programs for multi-event calendars.
- Turn-Key Deliverables: Effortless material sort-and-ship instructions, full-service logistics management, and certified client-ready Impact Metric Reports.
- Social Impact Network: Product transformation into mental health tools, custom clipboards, and creative art kits distributed directly to under-resourced schools and priority youth initiatives.
Frequently Asked Questions
You will be placed into our queue for upcycling. Smaller upcycling jobs take 2-3 weeks, while large upcycling jobs can take 4-6 weeks. Rush upcycling is also available upon request for an extra charge.
Our core upcycling programs are for retired and single-use
- conference lanyards
- rigid signs - foam core, coroplast and falcon board
- vinyl & fabric banners
- linens and drape
- single use vinyl off-cuts
- single use event carpet cut-offs
Don't see what you are looking for?
Connect with us here with your materials you want to upcycle.
We make it entirely stress-free. We work with you one-on-one and provide clear, turn-key sorting instructions so your team can easily pack and ship your materials to our studio with zero heavy lifting.
We provide full upcycling and material consulting services nationwide across Canada, allowing you to streamline sustainability for your entire national event calendar.
For One-Off Projects, we transform the custom batch generated from your specific standalone event footprint. For ongoing event series, our Material Stewardship model allows us to warehouse, inventory, and pool your assets throughout the year.
You choose the destination. Fabric banners are tailored into premium travel gear for your staff or durable bags for youth initiatives, while lanyards and signs are transformed into permanent corporate office art installations, custom clipboards, and mental health art kits—perfect for both interactive employee workshops and direct donations to under-resourced schools.
We offer transparent, flat-rate project pricing for individual events and simple monthly retainers for year-round stewardship. Inbound logistics, processing, and your client-ready Impact Metric Report are completely bundled into your core scope.
Upcycled Banner Example
A 2ft x 5ft banner can be transformed into two market bags as part of your event decor upcycling project. Simply cut the fabric in half, sew the pieces together, and add handles to create sustainable solutions for carrying your goods. This is a great way to upcycle your signs and give them a new life!
Ready to Get Started?
See how seamless our process is and request a quote below.
MB Designs Inc.
724 CALEDONIA ROAD, NORTH YORK, ON, M6B 3X7