1. Provide water and other beverage dispensers for refillable bottles/glasses.
2. Invite participants to bring refillable bottles, to be filled on site.
3. Rent and/or sell refillable glasses and/or bottles.
4. Serve all drinks, if water and drink dispensers are not available, in washable and/or recycled glass bottles/glasses.
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5. Use reusable/washable crockery (glasses, cups, etc) and prohibit the use of plasticor polystyrene.
6. Collect materials such as organic, oil, cardboard, paper, aluminium and glass separately and properly dispose of these materials for reuse, if possible, or for recycling.
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7. Illuminate areas, and position staff, where proper separate collection of materials can be facilitated.
8. Donate uneaten food to a local charity/organisation or share it with the crew/public.
9. Use and/or hire second-hand or reusable sets, stages and furniture.
10. Reduce the weight and volume of packaging that must be recycled and recyclable.
11. Ban the use of single-serving sachets for coffee, tea, sugar, milk, condiments, etc.
12. Avoid single use even in signage, reusing it for a certain number of show interactions.
13. Provide cigarette butt bins and/or ashtrays in all smoking areas.
14. Share environmental criteria for materials with sponsors, so they know what they can use or bring on site.
15. Always monitor the waste produced and carry out product analyses to know its composition.
A 'zero packaging' policy for an event could bring an environmental benefit of 2.6tonnes CO2 if the packaging is produced from virgin material or 288kg CO2 if the packaging is produced from recycling.
Separate waste collection during the course of an event could increase the waste collected and then recycled from 40% to 70% (an increase of 30%). For a total of 480kg of waste produced, the benefit in terms of reduced CO2 emissions amounts to 105.2kg.
