Thanks to some brilliant high-profile TV shows and well known individuals, we have all become much more aware of our impact on the environment recently.
The Gladiator Events Team is working really hard to make a change to the way we operate as a Business, at our events and as consultants to our charity partners, to make sure that our events have a minimal impact on the environment.
We have already put in place a lot of changes over the past two years, including eliminating plastic bottles at almost all of our events and recycling as much of our waste as possible (currently 90% of our event waste is recycled).
However there is so much more that we can do. It can be tricky to know where to start, and this is why we’ve decided to put together a 5 year pledge, aiming to drastically reduce our carbon footprint by 2025.
We want to become industry leaders in delivering environmentally conscious events, and we are working really hard to measure, plan and implement our pledge.
We have just launched our Sustainability page on our site, as well as our Environmental Policy.
Here are some of our ideas that we will be working on over the next few months:
Measuring our Company’s annual carbon footprint for 2019, so we can set ourselves targets for 2020 and beyond
Having conversations with all our suppliers about their environmental credentials, and working with those that share our values.
Using local suppliers with short journey times
Banning single use plastic from all our caterers at 2020 events
Staff car-sharing and encouraging participant and volunteer car-sharing
Going digital - all our information documents for the event are now only available digitally
What are you doing in your organisation to work in a more sustainable way? We’d love to hear from you.