What the show is doing...

New in 2020, New Hope Network is featuring "The Plastic Rainbow"! This 85' art instillation is made from 10,000 upcycled water bottles that would have been destined for a landfill. This art piece makes a big, beautiful statement about eliminating single-use plastic and will help to spread awareness about the need to clean up our water sources.

In conjunction with raising awareness about single use plastic, New Hope Network is making a donation to The Ocean Cleanup. This is the largest ocean pastic collection effort in history and is making huge waves when it comes to salvaging our world's water!

• New Hope is going single-use plastic free by the year 2022!
• A full back of house sort occurred during the show to maximize waste diverted from the landfill.
• 3-bin systems (recycle, compost, landfill) were placed throughout the entire Expo East campus. 
• Staff meals were served on china and with silverware.
• Box cutters were provided to help break down cardboard so more can be recycled.
• Designated cardboard drop-off areas allowing more cardboard to be captured.
• We provided resources to help companies source non-plastic sampling options.
• GES offers in booth recycling and compost service for exhibitors.
• Eliminated foamcore and prohibits styrofoam from the show.

• Metrics tracking of energy, water and waste during move in/out and show days.
• No HVAC during move in/out.
• Lighting is set to a reduced level of 50% during set up and tear down days.
• Escalators are shut off during move in/move out.
• Plastic single-use water bottles have been eliminated.
• Condiments and beverages are provided in bulk rather than individual servings.
  

• Encourage shipping/freight through SmartWay freight partners.
• Creation of Travel Green/Save Green program to incentivize attendees to utilize public transportation to/from the show.
• Enforcement of non-idling ordinance of 5 minutes or less for suppliers and exhibitors.

Qualified Retailers, Distributors (Brokers and Importers/Exporters), Food Services Industry Members and Healthcare Practitioners attending the show can ride a regional bus or train to the show and Expo East will reimburse you up to $50.

Spend:                                              Receive:
$0-$14.99                                         $10 card
$15-$29.99                                       $25 card
$30 or more                                     $50 card

One roundtrip per qualified attendee, no exhibitor reimbursements, valid for regional (originating outside of Baltimore city limits) transportation, limited quantities available per day.

• Allow all registrants to offset their travel through registration portal
• We offset all staff travel to/from the show

Our Partner in 2019...

South Pole provided offsets for roundtrip staff travel the show.

• Plastic single-use water bottles have been eliminated.
• Condiments and beverages are provided in bulk rather than individual servings.
• Styrofoam and Foamcore have been banned and eliminated from Exhibitor Service Kit (ESK).
• Sustainable booth packages available through GES and the ESK.
• Continued partnership with GES to procure more sustainable products including:
  • Recyclable signage
  • Reuse of banners and carpets-only recycling after several uses
• The Show Directory Map is printed on FSC certified paper, which ensures products come from responsibly managed forests that provide environmental, social and economic benefits.

Show Bag Sponsor 

• Each show bag was made of 2 recycled plastic 16.9oz water bottles. Therefore creating 10,000 show bags saved 20,000 plastic water bottles from a landfill!
• These plastic show bags can also be recycled at the end of their life, similar to a #1 plastic bottle.
  

• We encourage attendees to participate in the hotels' linen reuse program
• All straws have been removed from F&B services unless specifically requested

• A Sustainability Kiosk highlighting exhibitors that participate in the program.
• Our exhibitor newsletter has sustainability tips to help exhibitors improve their sustainable practices.
• We created a Exhibitor Sustainability guide to make the most out of your show!
• Our Exhibitor Sustainability Survey encourages exhibitors to develop and implement sustainability initiatives for their show experience.

Diversity in Naturals Networking Event

Diversity in Naturals Networking event is a Happy Hour where people of all races, cultures, genders, backgrounds and orientations of the natural products community come together to celebrate and recognize our individual differences.

Community Benefit Concert Sponsors 

The Friday Community Benefit Concert on Eutaw Street brought together the natural products industry to benefit Baltimore City’s youth and featured live music. We are so excited to move this same event to Philidelphia in 2020!

Attendees will actively participate in loading up backpacks with healthy food, donated by our sponsors, for the local community. 

We partnered with local non-profit, Living Classrooms, to donate our backpacks filled with healthy snacks that were then distributed to the Baltimore area youth in their programs.

• Our energy consumption metrics are collected for duration of event.
• Carbon offsets for convention center.
• RECs (Renewable Energy Credits) are purchased for energy usage.
• No HVAC during move in/move out.
• Lighting levels are set to 50% during move in/move out.
• Enforcement of non-idling ordinance of 5 minutes or less for suppliers and exhibitors.
• Created travels offset options that can be activated during the registration process. 

We partner with South Pole to offset the carbon impact of staff travel to and from the Natural Products Expo East Show.