Sustainability

What ISTAT is doing: 

• Providing the “meal of the day” for attendee’s lunches to optimize ingredients and reduce food waste.
• No individual pads, pens, candies, etc, instead placed in each meeting room to reduce waste and plastic use.
• Meeting room temperatures will stay consistent to reduce energy use.
• Collecting and recycling plastic badge holders.
• All vendor rentals for furniture, floral, and deliveries are locally based, eliminating delivery emissions.
• Sourcing energy efficient vehicles for attendee transportation and delivery of equipment.
• Hired buses for transportation are state-of-the-art vehicles which assist in reducing emissions and comply with the latest environmental policies and legislation. (Buses will be turned off when not in sure to save on carbon footprint; no idling.)
• Eliminating single use plastic and use of recyclable materials when possible.

For additional information or questions on sustainability efforts at ISTAT, please contact istat@istat.org.

• Meeting room temperatures will stay consistent to reduce energy use.
• Leftover food will be donated. 
• Through a food rescue program, kitchen scraps such as vegetable peels, fruit cores and bones are repurposed to make stock. 
• All coffee, tea and food will be locally sourced. 
• Artwork and furniture within hotel guestrooms are made from recycled products.
• All hotel lighting is LED, saving energy by nearly 84%. 
• Through a water recycling program, wastewater is treated and reused in a cooling tower. 
• Eliminating single use plastic and use of recyclable materials when possible.