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Conference organisers expected to measure events’ waste, emissions by next year

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Wong Pei Ting

Wong Pei Ting

Published Thu, Dec 1, 2022 · 12:30 PM
    • Alvin Tan, Minister of State for the Ministry of Trade and Industry & Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth, gives an opening address without a blazer at the Dec 1 launch event of the Mice Sustainability Roadmap.
    • Alvin Tan, Minister of State for the Ministry of Trade and Industry & Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth, gives an opening address without a blazer at the Dec 1 launch event of the Mice Sustainability Roadmap. PHOTO: WONG PEI TING, BT

    BY NEXT year, organisers of meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions (Mice) in Singapore will be expected to measure the waste and carbon footprint generated at their events.

    This is part of an effort to push the industry towards more sustainable alternatives, especially for exhibitor booths, which were identified to be generating the greatest amount of waste currently.

    The plan was articulated in the Mice Sustainability Roadmap – a sustainability plan launched on Thursday (Dec 1) by a committee formed by the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) and the Singapore Association of Convention and Exhibition Organisers and Suppliers (Saceos).

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