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Corporate Social Responsibilities > Environmental & Sustainable Development

Environmental & Sustainable Development

Green exhibition

	Online Exhibitor Manuals
	Printed Exhibitor Manuals are steadily being eliminated from our trade shows; some shows are 100% online, others have greatly reduced their print numbers. This also means that all order forms sent to contractors, venues, suppliers are online as well.

	Show Directories on CD
	We have introduced show directory on CDs at one of our events and plan to extend this initiative to the other shows.


	Carpeting
	Working with our stand contractors and two carpeting suppliers, we have been able to introduce 100% recyclable carpet at our Hong Kong trade shows. As a HKECIA (Hong Kong Exhibition & Convention Industry Association) member we are also working to make this an industry standard at Hong Kong trade shows. We are now working on introducing this recyclable product at other Asian events. In addition, we have also decided at selected events to eliminate aisle carpeting completely as part of our environmental campaign.

	Plastic Badge Holders
	In cooperation with our appointed registration company, we are working towards phasing out the use of all plastic badge holders at our shows.

	Web Development Support
	We are making more extensive use of our multi-lingual email broadcast system to reduce the amount of printed material. We also open our e-Invitation system to exhibitors and encourage them to send electronic invitations of our shows to their buyers.

Green office

	Reduce use of paper
	We encourage our staff to use recycle paper for printing internal documents and receiving faxes. We also share documents via online systems and shared drives to reduce the necessity of printing them out.

	Reduce emission of carbon dioxide and heat
	Working together with the office proprietor, we encourage smart-casual wearing at office, which allows higher temperature and reduces the carbon dioxide and heat produced by air conditioners.

	Save electricity
	We remind our staff of turning down their computers and lights when leaving the office to prevent waste of electricity.

Green alliance

	Alliance with industry association
	In Hong Kong, UBM Asia initiated the foundation of an Environmental Committee within the Hong Kong Exhibition & Convention Industry Association (HKECIA).

	Alliance with venues and contractors
	We are working with the venues to have more permanent signage options and less banners, and see how we can improve recycling rates; contractors to try and use more environmentally friendly and reusable materials.

	Alliance with sister companies and branch offices
	We are sharing information with our colleagues in sister companies and are trying to adopt best practice across our respective shows; in Asia we will use advances made in Hong Kong head office to introduce to our other offices.