AS PART OF OUR COMMITMENT, WE ARE FOCUSING ON:

Our event guide will be delivered in a 100% digital format through our ConnectMe app this year, significantly reducing our usage of paper products during the live experience.

During the event, you will find biodegradable food packaging as well as corn-based fully compostable cups and utensils. Look out for the various receptacles to recycle paper, plastic and glass waste. Also don’t miss our entirely vegetarian lunch on Wednesday in the exhibit hall and more healthy and vegetarian options throughout the food services at the event!  

We will be working local volunteers every day during the event to make sure any accepted food remaining from the day can be brought to local nonprofits providing meals to the food insecure.

Through our commitment to the evolution of the exhibitions industry, we aim to ensure that we are delivering the best possible experience for our customers. We believe that by moving away from the use of disposable exhibition booths we will improve the ease, quality, safety and sustainability of the exhibitor experience at our events.  We aim to further minimize exhibition waste by ensuring any carpet use in our aisles is recyclable, using digital signage options as much as possible or using eco cardboard. Finally encouraging our exhibitors to minimize handouts by utilizing our digital download QR code technology at their booths.

In addition to ensuring our venue is using energy efficient lighting, this year our event will also be fully powered by Renewable Energy

Going carbon neutral means that we will continue to reduce as many greenhouse gas emissions as possible and compensate for the remaining carbon emissions our show emits (from travel, hotel stays, energy-use, waste, etc.) through the purchase of high-quality carbon offsets.

In 2016, the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center (BCEC) was certified LEED Silver by the U.S. Green Building Council. LEED, which stands for “Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design”, is an internationally adopted “green building” rating system, which evaluates a building’s environmental footprint in terms of its resource consumption, waste management practices, and overall operational efficiency.

Both the BCEC and the Hynes have state-of-the-art Lutron Lighting Systems installed throughout the facilities and sensor-controlled lighting in all meeting rooms. To improve building efficiency, lighting and HVAC are reduced during show move-in and move out.  In a year alone, 1,300,000 kwH were saved due to LED lighting upgrades at the BCEC.

The BCEC and the Hynes recycle over 800 combined tons of material, including cardboard, plastic, paper, glass, and food waste with an average waste diversion rate of 47% at the BCEC. Annually, over 600,000 lbs of food waste are sent to be used for anaerobic digestion with any residuals being pelletized and land applied. In 2019, the MCCA also started an office organics collection program, currently available in four locations at the BCEC and one at the Hynes.

Wednesday, Sept. 20 at 6:30am 

Grab your sneakers and meet us at the Registration Desk in the North Lobby of the BCEC for this sunrise run/walk along the beautiful Boston waterfront. BWB tee shirts provided for participants on first come first serve basis. 

Thursday, Sept. 21 at 7:00am

Join us for a beginner yoga class at the BCEC in the Ballroom Foyer to exercise as the sun comes up. Modifications provided for more advanced students. The first 25 participants will receive a travel yoga mat to take home. 

Visit us during Biotech Week Boston to help pack warm care kits for the children of Youth Enrichment Services (YES). Youth Enrichment Services (YES) is a private, nonprofit organization which provides affordable and impactful sports-based youth development and leadership programming for Boston children and teens.  Founded in 1968 by Richard Williams, YES believes deeply in the transformative power of engaging youth in active outdoor activities.YES is dedicated to serving Boston youth with a targeted focus on reaching low-to-moderate income children and teens in Dorchester, Roxbury, Mattapan, and our future neighborhood of Jamaica Plain. YES currently serves more than 1,600 children and teens annually.

Don’t forget to pack your reusable water bottle to stay hydrated. Hydration stations will be provided outside of session rooms and inside the exhibit halls of all our events. 

Please join us for our annual vegetarian lunch in the exhibit hall. This year’s menu will feature locally sourced entirely vegetarian options with an Asian Buffet flair. Don’t worry we won’t forget dessert. Just one person eating vegetarian for the day saves: 0.5 animal not eaten, 110 gallons of water, 12lbs of grain, 4lbs of CO2 and 6sqft of forest.

After the event concludes, turn your badge and lanyard back into the bins provided so that we may recycle it! Thanks to our Terracycle Zero Waste boxes, all lanyards and badges will be recycled.