[SUSTA I NAB I L I TY Hub of the matter: providing sustainable table display solutions Providing content delivery solutions for event organisers and participants in a sustainable way is the key objective of TableHub – a company that has had a high profile at recent business events industry occasions such as MEETINGS 2022 in Christchurch and the BEIA Conference in Napier. TableHub is typically employed at awards nights, gala dinners, fundraisers, cocktail and social events – any occasion where organisers wish to have messages delivered directly to delegates and participants, whilst eliminating the need for printed material that often clutters the table setting. Xanthe Smythe, TableHub’s sales and marketing manager, says the company’s mission is to drive engagement and innovation in the event space and to enhance how messaging is communicated in these environments. Smythe points out that the TableHub enclosures are made in New Zealand from recyclable aluminium. When the tablets that drive the tech come to the end of their life with TableHub, they are rehomed to schools or organisations that can make use of them. TableHub eliminates the need for any printed material at events – menus, table numbers, programmes, agendas, speaker bios, auction items and sponsors’ messaging. This reduces clutter on the table and helps companies and organisations with zero waste policies demonstrate their commitment to the sustainability cause by not covering the table with single use printed items. “With more and more venues implementing zero waste initiatives and not allowing printed menus, TableHub offers an ideal solution,’ Smythe adds. “As well as meeting these objectives, event organisers can use TableHub to encourage participant engagement, provide significantly more value to sponsors and incorporate extra wow factor to the table. “Sponsors can have repeated brand messaging displayed throughout the event, while engagement prompts such as a QR code or a call to action can be incorporated into the content to generate sales leads.” Despite the challenges of the last few years, TableHub is enjoying significant growth and is looking forward to playing an essential and enduring role in the events industry across Australasia. Business and public events organisers, hoteliers, restaurateurs and even corporates with a cafeteria are being urged to get behind an innovative operation that has been successfully converting organic waste into a rich soil resource for several years. This is all thanks to nature’s little eco warriors – earthworms. The call comes as MyNoke (meaning my earthworms in Te Reo Māori) embarks on a major initiative with national waste collection companies to pick up organic waste from businesses and transport it to worm farms nearby. Hamilton City has been selected as the pilot city this month followed by Taupo, Tauranga, Rotorua, Hawke’s Bay, and even Dunedin in the new year. The Hamilton service powered by Waste Management, allows any Hamilton venue, accommodation provider, or business with organic waste to use MyNoke Worm Food Bins (140 litre in size) to feed earthworms and divert from landfill. MyNoke are not only the largest earthworm farms in the world but they are also the largest event organisers entertaining over three billion guests at one time! The guests (earthworms) are treated to one big feast as they chomp through 250 thousand of tonnes of organic waste a year transforming it into a rich soil conditioner that goes back into the land – soil to soil. The company’s sales and marketing manager, Lee Watkins, says he was first drawn to MyNoke when founder and environmental scientist Dr Michael Quintern was a long stay guest at the resort he was working for at the time. ‘Sustainable tourism has always been dear to my heart and learning of Michael’s passion in establishing commercial worm farms to accept large volumes of waste making an environmental difference, really captivated me'. ‘Worm food bins are introduced to a business and training provided to sort and include all food scraps, soft green waste, paper hand towels, office paper, and even cardboard which are collected and transferred to the farms. The waste is then broken down by the worms over nine Sold to soil ~ event waste into rich resource TableHub Table Display Xanthe Smythe [32] meeting newz [nov dec] 2022
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