The carbon footprint avoided during the show amounted to 1.52 metric tonnes of Co2e.
In line with its principles of consistently reducing environmental impact, organizers of IMEX America, the IMEX Group, have just announced key results from the inaugural Las Vegas show’s first sustainability program. The report was conducted by IMEX America’s sustainability consultants, MeetGreen®.
As promised, the IMEX America show featured a number of sustainability best practices at the Sands Expo and at various partner hotels. These includes the use of show badges, lanyards and luggage tags made from recycled materials; locally sourced signage; and efficient lighting and AV equipment, including a lamp recycling programme.
As regards green and CSR initiatives benefitting the local community, IMEX partnered closely with the IMEX America headquarters hotel and convention centre The Venetian®|The Palazzo® and Sands Expo, in addition to local and global non-profit organizations and other hotels in Las Vegas. Initiatives featured the donation of a month’s worth of soap and bottled amenities to needy children, with the help of Clean the World, a non-profit organization based in Florida; and the show’s badge-back idea in which IMEX America and the badge-back sponsors, Estoril (Portugal), made a cash donation to two local non-profit organizations for each badge that was returned at the end of the show.
Working closely with the show’s exhibition venue, the Sands Expo, the IMEX America team also opted to use compostable rather than disposable service-ware wherever possible. After use it was taken – along with food waste – to a local compost facility to help reduce landfill.
About IMEX America
IMEX America is America’s worldwide exhibition for incentive travel, meetings and events and is already the largest trade show for the industry in the USA. The second edition will take place at the Sands Expo, Las Vegas, from 9-11 October 2012.
