Vegetarian options
Meat production is one of the biggest polluters in the world as we take a look on carbon emission. Therefore, we have started to offer mostly vegetarian options at Jaarbeurs.
Restaurants
The expected CO2 reduction of our restaurants is 22,039kg CO2 in a normal year. The company restaurant offers a completely vegetarian menu and the other restaurants of Jaarbeurs offer 90% vegetarian dishes. By doing this we already saved 286,501kg in 2021. Read more about our Hospitality.
Foodbook
Event organizers can choose of many food options for their event in our foodbook. Depending on the event and the target audience the food offer for visitors is 50 – 90% vegetarian. The foodbook offers 80% vegetarian options. We saved 888kg CO2 in 2021. In a normal year this could be 154,106kg.
Less food waste
The Local Food Bank en Too Good To Go
The daily fresh food that is left on a trade show or conference is being donated to the Local Food Bank. Next to that, our restaurant Speys uses the Too Good to Go app. Daily fresh meals are sold for a cheaper price to fight food waste. These meals do not end in the waste bin anymore. We already safed 509 meals, but we could save 108,000 meals in a normal year. Read more about The Local Food Bank and Too Good To Go.
Winnow
Greendish is our partner in helping to make our catering healthier and more sustainable. We use a smart waste bin, called winnow. With the help of Winnow, we can measure the food that is left and the green garbage that is thrown away. We saved already 100.000kg waste and we could save 221,763kg CO2 in 2023. Read more about Winnow.
Composting machine
We can compost the green garbage that is left in our own composting machine, which we have been using since last year. With this machine we can produce till 82,800kg compost. This compost can be used for growing new vegetables. In the future we want to grow our own vegetables with our compost.
Compensating carbon emission
Trees for all
Before we will reach our ambition to become CO2 neutral, we compensate our carbon emission by planting trees in collaboration with Trees for all. Already 800 trees have been planted since September 2021. In a normal year this could be up to 8,400 trees, which is equal to 588,000kg CO2.
