Sauce Consultancy and London Remade Solutions (LRS) are offering a new service to make events and venues cleaner and greener. This follows a successful pilot at ExCel London, the capital’s major events venue, where the Sauce and LRS team demonstrated that more than 70% of the waste stream could be diverted from landfill into recycling and composting. This was also reflected in a survey of high street waste in Stratford, London Borough of Newham (whose 2012 Unit funded the pilot).

This is great news as it means venues across the country – and public places such as high streets – can meet the Olympic Delivery Authority’s target for 70% recycling at Games venues. Even more important is that the pilot showed that recycling led to efficiency improvements in cleaning services and the potential for major cost savings in reducing exposure to landfill tax.

Specialist communications consultancy Sauce and LRS, a leading provider of recycling and sustainable procurement advice and support, will be offering project management services and advice to UK venues that wish to build on the success of the ExCel pilot and make Britain’s conference, exhibition and events industry cleaner and greener.

Improving waste management, diverting waste from landfill and adopting green procurement policies can all contribute to venues and event organisers striving to meet the new sustainable events standard – BS 8901.

John Twitchen, Sauce’s managing director, said “The ExCel pilot shows what’s possible – the system was simple but effective and demonstrated the potential for diverting substantial amounts of recycling away from landfill. Visitors to major venues can recycle at home, at work and at school, and it was second nature for them to recycle at ExCel. High recycling rates are no longer aspirational pipe dreams.”

Dee Moloney, Consultancy Director at LRS, commented: “Recycling doesn’t get any more simple than the system we installed at ExCel, and the potential cost savings should make the decision easy for other venues. The trick is in making sure back of house services are well organised, having a good contractor to take the material, and working closely with concessions to reduce contamination and eliminate troublesome forms of packaging.”

A copy of the report produced by Sauce and LRS is available by calling 020 8256 0023 or emailing info@sauceconsultancy.co.uk

Tags: events industry, ExCel London, London Remade Solutions

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