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Environmental Management

We are conscious of our environment as African’s and would like to share with you some of the ways that we would suggest to comply to make the conference a green one:

Green Procurement

  • Source natural fabric and locally produced conference bags.
  • Negotiate with Congress Venues to use natural cleaning products for the duration of the conference.
  • Source FSC approved paper for notebooks.
  • Compressed newspaper used to make pencils (Townhouse has them)

Energy Efficiency

  • Make sure that the venues that are booked have sufficient natural light and energy efficient lighting.
  • Ask delegates to wear light clothes so that the air conditioner does not need to be on.

Water Conservation

  • Promote water conservation across the venue.
  • Remind delegates in the programme to conserve water.
  • Provide water dispensers and get a sponsor to provide water bottles rather than have plastic water bottles

Waste Management

  • Use water dispensers instead of bottled water. The water in South Africa is safe to drink.
  • Instead of putting the conference materials into the delegate bags, have a table with the material displayed, so that delegates only need to take the information that is relevant to them, and the rest can be recycled.
  • Encourage sponsors and delegates to put their marketing material on memory sticks instead of printing.
  • Encourage congress venue to use large sugar bowls at the Tea/Coffee stations instead of paper packet sachets.
  • Have a recycle booth in the registration foyer for delegates to recycle unwanted paper.
  • Collect lanyards and badges after the conference to donate to a local school.

Food

  • Select food that is locally procured, that is in season and organic.
  • Choose seafood that has been approved by the South African Sustainable Seafood Initiative, to make sure that the seafood that is chosen is not in danger of becoming extinct.
  • Procure food locally to minimize food miles.
  • Donate left-over food to a shelter or childrens home

Carbon Emission

  • Have a booth at the conference that delegates can visit to calculate their carbon foot print.
  • Should they wish to, they can make a voluntary donation to offset their carbon emission.
  • The money raised can be used to buy a Solar Power System that can be donated to a Themba Care, our charity for the year.

Most importantly though, would be to communicate all of the above to the delegates to make it a success.

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