Close to a million pieces of cutlery and straws at one festival
Supplying single-use products at a festival run by the İstanbul Governorship and the Zero Waste Foundation, under Emine Erdoğan's patronage — where the claim is scrutinised hardest.
| Event | İstanbul Zero Waste Festival — June 2026 |
|---|---|
| Organised by | İstanbul Governorship and the Zero Waste Foundation |
| Patronage | Emine Erdoğan — Honorary President of the Zero Waste Foundation and Chair of the UN High-Level Advisory Board on Zero Waste |
| Supplied | Close to 1 million forks · spoons · knives · straws |
| Product | Bamboo and wood, plastic-free |
Why this job was a test
The festival is run jointly by the İstanbul Governorship and the Zero Waste Foundation, under the patronage of Emine Erdoğan — the foundation's honorary president and also Chair of the United Nations High-Level Advisory Board on Zero Waste. So this is supplying single-use products at an event whose subject is waste itself, organised by the state and watched by an international body. A plastic fork appearing there would undermine the message of the whole event. Being chosen in that setting is, for us, a more concrete acceptance than any certificate.
Why event supply is different
A restaurant chain consumes steadily and holds stock. Event consumption arrives as a single peak: in June 2026, across four days and a programme of more than a thousand events, close to a million pieces compressed into a few days. Running short cannot be made up afterwards — nobody waits for another batch while a festival is running. On jobs like this the deciding factor is not unit price but arriving on the date, in full.
What this demonstrates
Two things. That we can supply a high-volume one-off event; and that the sustainability claim behind the product held up at a publicly organised event whose entire subject was exactly that. The second is a validation no sentence on a supplier's own website can provide — because we did not make the choice.
On event and trade fair work the calendar matters before the product does. Give us the date and the quantity at the start and it goes into the production plan on that basis.
Products used on this job
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