Sydney Exhibition and Convention Centre launches planning tool for greener events

SYDNEY – The Sydney Exhibition and Convention Centre has come up with a new brochure designed to help event planners reduce the impact of their event on the environment.

The new “Green Event Ideas” brochure offers a collection of practical strategies across a range of areas from waste management to registration and catering.

Made available in electronic format to event planners who book with the Centre, the seven-page booklet contains a series of checklists of environmentally-friendly strategies that can be easily implemented from the initial planning stages of an event right through to completion.

Tips include encouraging the use of public transport by delegates, limiting handouts and providing information electronically to reduce paper usage, ensuring natural light and energy efficiency lighting is used wherever possible, and promoting the use of custom stands that can be reused at other events.