Community Project - Feed The Hungry

If you are committed to giving back to the Budapest community, make sure you come in early enough on Sunday, 29th January 2012 to take part in our powerful project this year in collaboration with Budapest Underguide.

Like any major capital city in the depths of winter, Budapest has homeless people looking for warmth and food at this time of year. Join your industry colleagues and head downtown where we'll learn to cook Goulash (a traditional Hungarian stew) from a renowned local chef before preparing and serving a large scale lunch for the homeless.

The programme on Sunday, 29th January 2012 will be as follows:

09:30 Transfer by bus to Public Foundation for the Homeless, Szobi Street Shelter
10:00 Preparation and cooking of a fabulous Hungarian Goulash
14:00 Serving of meal to the shelter residents
15:00 Transfer back to the hotel in time for the Official Conference Opening

If you are not able to attend this CSR project, don't worry you can still help and leave a positive legacy in Budapest. During the coffee breaks in the MPI Café on Monday, 30th January 2012 you’ll be able to help prepare food packages for the Hungarian homeless community. About 1000 sandwich lunches need to be prepared and all help is appreciated! Join your MPI peers and take part in a fantastic team building exercise whilst helping those in need.

The dress code for the Community Project is casual.

Bound to be a rewarding experience, make sure you reserve your place!

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MPI's Commitment to Sustainability

MPI has made the following commitment to sustainability and to sustainable events:

We recognize the immense potential impact our actions have on the communities in which we do business and make a deliberate commitment to the transformational power of meetings and events to support environmental, economic and social sustainability.

We will establish leadership and demonstrate commitment in the area of sustainable meetings by including environmental, economic and social factors in decisions we make on behalf of our members, and by making the best use of resources for maximum impact and alignment with our objectives.

We will educate and inform our members about our actions. We are committed to building our brand, supporting our mission and vision, and connecting our community in a sustainable way.

British Standard 8901 for Sustainable Event Management
We have incorporated the principles of the first sustainable event standard, British Standard 8901, into how we work. This includes planning for the event, implementation of the event on-site, and a post-event review process that allows us to learn from our successes and challenges and incorporate changes into our next event.

For a BS 8901 case study on the first MPI event to attain third-party certification, please click here.
Check back here to learn more about the sustainability initiatives we have in place as the event takes shape.

Sustainability at EMEC

• Delegate Bags made of recycled material: PET fabric which is manufactured from post consumer recycled plastic bottles (approximately 3 bottles) made in an ethical manufacturing facility in China
• No handouts for any sessions provided by MPI or print station
• 1 Page onsite guide printed on fsc paper, significantly reducing paper usage
• Avoid the use of non recyclable products where possible
• Mobile Application Programme
• CSR Project offsite- cooking and serving gulyas to the homeless in the Szobi street shelter , operated by the Foundation for the Homeless
• Packing sandwiches onsite- to donate to the Szobi  street shelter
• Donation of leftover catering to the Szobi  street shelter
• Unprinted lanyards
• Re-usable Badge holders
• Selecting local suppliers
• No gifts in rooms- on demand only
• No magazine drops in rooms
• Offering local, seasonal and organic food across all events including local juices and wines
• No individual plastic bottles for water for delegates will be used and water is sourced locally
• Recycling throughout the hotel and convention centre
• LED lighting for social events
• Re-use of branding materials
• Local suppliers
• Supporting local minority employment as stage hands, waiters and entertainers.

Hotel/convention centre wide initiatives:
In May 2010, at the 10th Global Travel & Tourism Summit in Beijing, Accor received the "2010 Tourism for Tomorrow Award" from the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) in the Global Tourism Business Award Category.

Here is a separated collection of action in the hotel from the maintenance department:

Water:

• Water flow regulators
• Basin taps 6 l/min
• Bath taps 12 l/min
• Toilets 9 / 6 l
• Sprinkler system in the garden

Gas:

• Energy recovery system (from central AC)
• Insulated the heat exchangers, hot water pumps

Electricity

• Using  energy saving bulbs and LED lights
• Move detectors

Waste water

• Fat tank (grease from food stuffs)
• Collect  separately and recycle the used cooking oil
• Collected separately the swill
• Treated waste water   Waste - collect separated the
• Paper
• Plastic
• Glass bottles
• Metal  cans

Battery collectors in the hotel lobby for the guests and also in the service area for the staff.  

Others

• Tree planting every year
• Green purchases
• Favor Ecolabel products
• Asbestos-free hotel