Sustainability

Sustainable Policies & Practices

ESM is committed to prioritising sustainability within our own organisation, assessing our supply chains, and promoting change across the wider events industry as a whole. See below our overarching sustainability policies:

Sustainability Policy

Sustainability Mission Statement

EcoVadis

In June 2025, we were awarded an EcoVadis Bronze Medal, demonstrating our commitment to sustainability in the following areas:

ESSA (Event Suppliers & Services Association)

In 2024, our independent trading body, ESSA (the Events Suppliers & Services Association) awarded ESM a Tier IV Sustainability Accreditation.

Our certificate can be viewed here

This was a significant improvement upon the rating we achieved in the previous year (Committed).

Circular Economy

As part of our cost-effective and resource saving approach to exhibition stand building, we always aim to re-use stock and bespoke elements, whenever and wherever possible, such as counters, shelving, custom furniture, stock panels, floor batons, counters, lightboxes, electrical components and aluminium edging.

Our facility in Sittingbourne has dedicated storage racks where we can store stand materials in between shows and installations. Insofar as space and safety regulations allow, we should aim to store and re-use as many elements as possible, especially for clients reusing the same stand design, layout or branding at multiple shows throughout the year.

During the design stages, we make efforts to offer sustainable alternatives and always encourage our clients to opt for designs which incorporate and re-use the stand materials we have already fabricated or stored for them.

We also use hire furniture and audiovisual elements as standard.

Environment, Recycling & Waste Management

We recover and reuse as much material as possible post-show. All timber, metal, cardboard, plastic and glass is recycled when and wherever possible using local providers. We are part of the following recycling / takeback schemes:

Please see below documents for further information on our environmental and waste management policies:

Climate Commitments

You can read all about our formal climate commitments below:

NetZero Carbon Events Pledge

Climate action plan

Climate Policies & Commitments

Supply Chain & Procurement

We aim to conduct an annual supply chain review assessing performance based on a number of sustainability criteria.

You can view our sustainable procurement policy here:

Ethical & Sustainable Procurement Policy

Transport & Emissions

Where possible, we use newer ULEZ compliant and hybrid shared company vehicles, and have introduced a number of policies to minimise our emissions. You can read all about this here:

Safe Driving & No-idling Policy

Sustainable Transport Policy