Green Practices by Suntec

Waste Management
Centre to work with waste management company to provide and coordinate the placement of recycling bins at strategic locations throughout venue to create awareness and increase use by delegates.

Amenities/Facilities Management
Installation of water saving devices on hand basins and all toilet areas including wash sensors or water thimbles. Centre to adjust air-conditioning temperatures to ideal comfort levels, e.g. standardize thermostat controls to 24 degrees. Celsius and adjust accordingly where appropriate.

F&B Management
Use of appropriate paper type in room amenities. All paper usage including writing pads, menu covers, menu inserts, tent cards and place cards should be printed on recycled or farmed paper. Provide recycled or farmed paper for printing during the event and other purposes throughout the event.
Note: Recycled paper to be provided by organizer

Drinking water to be served in pitchers or containers. Avoid use of bottled drinks.
Implement a food-waste recycling programme to convert waste materials into biomass.

Another Green Partnership Suntec Singapore takes its green initiatives a step further with a new programme to recycle its waste vegetable oil into biodiesel. For this, Asia's leading venue will partner Alpha Biodiesel, a Singapore-based company that provides innovative solutions to give urban waste a new lease on life as a sustainable form of energy.

Suntec Singapore operates one of the country's largest commercial kitchens. Its massive kitchen, which comprises seven seperate kitchens and spans almost 3,000 square metres, is capable of preparing up to 20,000 meals at any one time. The partnership calls for the recycling of at least 2,100 gallons of cooking oil annually.

Said CEO Pleter Idenburg, "We are pleased to be involved in making a difference by recycling our used cooking oil into biodiesel, an environmentally friendly alternative to petroleum diesel."

Biodiesel is a renewable fuel that is non-toxic and, when burned, produces no sulfur emissions, less carbon monoxide and fewer particulates and hydrocarbons compared to traditional petroleum diesel.

Suntec Singapore, Asia's leading convention and exhibition centre, is a strong advocate for the environment and engages in water and energy conservation as well as recycling efforts.

Green Revolution

At Suntec Singapore, caring for the environment was already a consideration at the heart of the management of the convention centre, even before it was built. The convention centre's most distinguished architectural feature, its iconic roof, boldly expressed in metal and glass pyramids, suspended from a steel space frame in Teflon sails, is actually an irrigation system that collects rainwater.

Intergrated into the design of the building - its uniquely-designed roof - one that makes Suntec Singapore stand out in Singapore skyline - collects rain water that irrigates part of the trees that are planted in the Suntec City area.

Approximately 38,726,553 litres of rainwater is collected annually, that's about the volume of water required to fill 14 Olympic size swimming pools!



Print / e-materials
• All printed materials will done on 100% recyclable paper, ie. brochure, Green Mark Tour booklet,
  programme flyer, badge, Networking Reception invite
• Other green efforts includes using e-format to reach out to target audience, such as e-blast reminders,
  Opening Ceremony e-invite

Collaterals
• No print copy of conference proceedings, instead we are issuing the materials in a thumb drive
• Eco-bag (100% recyclable cotton canvas) for Green Mark Tour delegates
• Eco-lanyard that is bio-degradable
• Delegate badge going without plastic badge holder

Green Practices - Conference

• Printing is minimised to reduce paper consumption:
 - Conference proceedings will be issued in thumbdrives, instead of hardcopy kits
- Where possible, e-communication is used to reach out to target audience. Examples include marketing e-mail blasts, online registration and e-invites etc
• Eco-bag (100% recyclable cotton canvas) for Green Mark Tour delegates
• Eco-lanyard that is bio-degradable
• Delegate badges without plastic badge holder to reduce wastage
• Printed materials will done on 100% recycled paper.  These include the conference brochure, Green Mark Tour booklet, delegate's namebadge and programme, Networking Reception invitation card etc