Sustainability In FURNITURE CHINA
We acknowledge that the global furniture business and our local communities are impacted by FURNITURE CHINA. We are working to more accurately recognize, comprehend, and proactively address the effects on the environment, social sustainability, and sustainable development through our sustainability program.
Running an Environmentally Responsible Event
Inspiring Sustainable Development
Motivating Sustainable Effect entails
supplying methods for exhibitors and guests to practice sustainability both during our events and in the off-season. View our guides by clicking the plus signs below.
Save Water
- Save water and time by taking shorter showers!
Reduce Waste
- Use refillable water bottles and coffee mugs throughout the conference.
- Take only what you need when dining.
- Download the official mini-app, which contains important event information such as a map of the show!
- Ask your hotel for recycling bags if they don’t have them in your hotel room.
Save energy
- Turn off lights and thermostats when leaving your hotel room.
- If exhibiting, make sure you turn off the power to your booth at the end of each day of the show.
Air Quality/CO2 Impact
- Carpool or take public transportation to and from the airport and hotel. Make new friends and contacts while saving CO2!
- Take advantage of free hotel shuttles (if available) …… Walking is preferred if possible.
- Choose to eat at least one vegetarian or vegan meal a day, or commit to a meat-free diet for the entire week.
Together, we can meet guest expectations, enhance the show’s remarkable quality, and cut down on time, expense, and resource waste.
Additionally, we urge all exhibitors to take part in the Better Booths initiative, which seeks to replace single-use booths with recyclable or reusable constructions.
Cut down on wasteful signage
promoting the use of digital resources for booth items, encouraging less printing, and responding to inquiries by email and website recommendations
Make reusable, undated signs that you can use year after year if printing is required.
needing recyclable materials, such cardboard signage, and avoiding foam core signage
Cut down on booth waste
mandating that GES offer sustainable choices
Refusing to use carpet and bringing your own flooring, like reusable jigsaw foam flooring, to all shows
Breaking down all cardboard boxes and placing them in the correct recycling bins
Request additional booth recycling bins and compost collection bins
Use only compostable or recyclable service ware for samples and giveaways
Mark your materials for recycling or donation with stickers provided at the exhibitor service desk
Set a Leave No Trace goal to remove all booth items and packing materials and donate excess giveaways
Quicker to Zero with Informa’s Assistance
FURINITURE CHINA is part of Informa Markets and the Informa Group Informa’s approach to sustainability focuses on the long-term impact we have on our clients, our colleagues, the communities in which we work and the environment. For this reason, Informa has developed a “Faster forwards” approach to sustainable business.
Informa aims to be a more sustainable business that makes a positive impact. Through the Faster forwards program, we are integrating sustainability into everything we do and seizing opportunities to help our customers and markets keep pace.
We are making faster progress toward being a zero waste and net zero carbon company under the Faster to Zero pillar.
We must move quickly to minimize our carbon and waste footprint in order to assist address the pressing issues posed by a changing world. In the future, we want to be a zero waste, net zero carbon business.
We actively assist our partners, clients, and larger markets in achieving the same goals whenever we can.
We are committed to making Furniture China a positive impact on people and the planet. By building the connections and knowledge people need, we hope to play a key role in helping China’s MICE industry improve its own sustainability and help them address the big challenges of the future.
To our users, we also welcome you to share your company’s or brand’s unique sustainability story.
What does sustainability mean to your brand? What are the key sustainability challenges in your industry that you would like to help visitors to the exhibition address? What is the core message you want to convey? Talk about partnerships or specific long-term plans.
Sustainability should be both aspirational and inspirational!
If you need more information about the support work on sustainability at Furniture China, you can check out our sustainability in-house workshop materials.