5 Tips For Organisers For Sustainable Events
Sustainable events management isn’t always the easiest thing to achieve - let’s be honest, you don’t always put the words “sustainability” and “events” in the same category. But the truth is that there are lots of ways to make your event more sustainable.
Today sustainability and carbon-neutrality are more important than ever, and this is no exception for the events industry. We’ve seen some great sustainable event ideas in action including recyclable event badges, contactless agendas and much more. Take a look at our top 5 tips to promote sustainability at your event.
Badge choice: recyclable and compostable options
Fully recyclable and compatible with our self-service kiosks, fully recyclable expo badges are big and bold, whilst being 100% recyclable. Perfect for exhibitions or conferences with large numbers of people.
Our credit-card style badges look and feel the same as your standard plastic badges. The difference? Our sustainable badges are totally compostable once the pin has been removed. A great option for smaller, smarter conferences or meetings.
2. Contactless Info Points and Digital Agendas
If one (slightly) positive thing came out of the pandemic, it’s the normalisation of QR codes. There has been a huge rise in contactless info points at events. Great for live timings and fully compatible with your branding. An obvious win is to use an event app or website instead of a paper agenda.
3. Digital tickets and QR codes
With e tickets and QR mailings, the need for print outs is totally eradicated. Once the attendee has registered, either through us or another registration provider, we can arrange for a QR mailing to be sent out to each guest. This email will act as their e ticket.
4. Going Hybrid
People are the largest contributor to event waste. From food waste to plastic waste as a result of merchandise, to the various ways we use to travel to and from events. Virtual events mean fewer people using transport, less catering and less unnecessary merchandise.
5. Sustainable Event Technology
QR scanning, contactless info points, event apps, and live streaming make your event more interactive and eco-friendly without relying on throw away materials or heavy duty equipment.
We are doing our best to help
We have moved a significant amount of our technology onto lightweight pieces of technology with smaller cases to minimise our transportation requirements and overall carbon footprint impact.
More now than ever, our clients are looking for the most sustainable way to provide badges at their events. And with most of our badge types now being either recyclable or compostable, we’re always up for promoting sustainable options. Sustainable Badges no longer need to be plastic-focused. Gone are the days of plastic credit-card style badges or piles upon piles of plastic wallets. We’ve worked with our suppliers to design sustainable badges that are either recyclable or compostable, depending on the type of events and the style of badge that you’re looking for.
Want to go one step further? Consider if you even need a badge for your event – we’re finding that more and more events are now going badge less.
We hope our sustainable event ideas have given you something to think about, and if you’d like to collaborate with us at your next event, please do get in touch today.