Singapore’s largest experiential sustainability festival, GREEN-HOUSE, is returning from 28 to 30 August 2026 with its biggest edition yet, introducing its first ever day to night festival experience. For the first time, the free admission event will run until 10pm each day and join the Singapore Night Festival programme, with one of its immersive installations featured as part of the wider celebration.
Marking its fifth edition, GREEN-HOUSE continues to bring together Singapore’s leading sustainable brands, experiences and communities under one roof while encouraging visitors to embrace more sustainable lifestyles through fun, engaging and interactive experiences.
This year’s festival is centred on the theme, “Don’t Waste A Good Time”, reflecting the idea that lasting behavioural change happens through enjoyable and memorable experiences. The theme comes at a significant time as Singapore reviews its Zero Waste Masterplan. While sustainability has become a mainstream topic, encouraging people to turn awareness into consistent everyday action remains a challenge.
According to recent figures, Singapore’s overall recycling rate declined to 52 percent in 2025, well below the national target of 70 percent by 2030, while Semakau Landfill is expected to reach capacity around 2035. At the same time, Singlife’s Sustainable Future Index found that seven in 10 Singaporeans believe sustainability is important, but only three in 10 regularly put those values into practice.
One of the festival’s highlights is Eat Your Scraps!, a six-course dining experience co curated with food design unit Nottofu that challenges perceptions of food waste. Each course is created using ingredients that are typically discarded, including vegetable peels, spent coffee grounds, prawn shells, citrus peels, banana peels and bread heels. Visitors will also receive recipe cards so they can recreate the dishes at home and reduce food waste in their own kitchens.
The installation addresses a growing environmental issue in Singapore, where nearly 750,000 tonnes of food waste are generated each year and less than one fifth is recycled. By showcasing creative ways to use commonly discarded ingredients, the experience encourages visitors to rethink what is considered waste.
Beyond Eat Your Scraps!, the festival features five additional experiential pillars titled Don’t Waste Good Things, Don’t Waste A Good Day, Don’t Waste A Good Heart, Don’t Waste A Good Connection and Don’t Waste A Good Idea. Together, these experiences explore sustainability through creativity, culture, innovation and community engagement.
This year’s marketplace has expanded to 74 participating brands, with approximately 70 percent making their GREEN-HOUSE debut. The growing number of first-time exhibitors reflects the increasing number of local businesses embracing sustainability as part of their core mission. Returning brands such as wy will also be back alongside new names, giving visitors fresh discoveries throughout the festival.
Temasek Shophouse returns for the second consecutive year as the festival’s venue partner, providing a collaborative space for brands, social enterprises, creatives and community groups to connect, exchange ideas and inspire more sustainable ways of living.
GREEN-HOUSE also continues to strengthen its social impact by welcoming social enterprises including weareSuper, E.VOL Studio, Singapore Fashion Runway and METTA Welfare Association. Through these partnerships, visitors will have opportunities to engage with persons with disabilities through shared activities and meaningful conversations.
The festival will once again support NParks’ 100K Corals Initiative through a new pop-up record store concept featuring merchandise and artworks created from rescued and recycled ocean waste. Following the S$9,933 raised during last year’s festival, all profits from the initiative will continue to support coral restoration efforts in Singapore.
Since launching as a small sustainability pop up in a Geylang shophouse in 2022, GREEN-HOUSE has grown into Singapore’s largest experiential sustainability festival. The event welcomed more than 19,200 visitors in 2025 and has become an important platform connecting local businesses, social enterprises, creative practitioners and purpose driven organisations. As it celebrates its fifth edition, GREEN-HOUSE continues to demonstrate how sustainability can become part of everyday life through experiences that are engaging, accessible and enjoyable.
