Environmental friendly conference

Under the guidance of the Conference and Convention office and by promoting the DBU's German Environmental Foundation is "green days in Osnabrück" in Osnabrück city and county, the project established.

You also, as a Conference and Event organizer can be part of the project. Motivate participants and staff to an environmental tarvel and an environmentla behaviour. With the conversion to a digital invitation procedure and documents sent by e-mail, you can already pre-conferences at the curb paperwork. What you can also make for "greener" meetings, we will tell you. Talk to us

Measures Catalog Van der Valk Hotel Melle-Osnabrück:
Mobility
We recommend the "Osnabrück event ticket" for the environmentally friendly arrival and departure by train (99.00 € unit price, order: 01805 311 153).
Public Transport information, please contact our staff.
The Congress ticket (PT) or the culture card for your guests, we give you over the meeting and convention office Osnabrück.
On request we provide you with rental bikes.

Energy
For our building there is an energy report. We use the results of stepwise treatment, providing the implementation of energy conservation measures in the hotel room renovation in summer 2011 (eg, energy-stop with room card switch contact, energy-friendly air-conditioning, LED reading lights)
Through the connection to the district heating network of a biogas plant, is the hotel since early 2009 heating with renewable resources and environmentally friendly Co² neutral.
We sensitize our employees for energy-saving and resource-aware behavior.
We primarily make energy-efficient appliances and pay when buying a high energy efficiency.
We use the most efficient devices to have set.
We have an energy-saving lighting concept for the entire house. Where possible we use natural light and reduce the lighting.
We switch off lights and air conditioning when rooms are not used.
We avoid stand-by mode on electrical appliances.

Procurement
Our printing and writing paper made ??from recycled paper.
We use only biodegradable detergents.

Waste Management
Consistently waste separation and recycling in all areas of the house.
We minimize our paper use mainly by electronic correspondence.
We only use reusable dishes

Water Resources
In the sanitary areas, we use water-saving fixtures.
In the kitchen we have primarily energy-efficient appliances and when buying new appliance we look on a low water consumption.
Towel and linen change made in the hotel rooms only upon request.

Catering
On request, we will send you a quote for a food with organic products.
We provide drinks in reusable bottles, on request in large (0.75 L / 1.0 L) bottles.
We don't use small portions packaging, for example for coffee creamer, sugar, biscuits.