What We're Doing

Team San José, the Convention Center and the Cultural Facilities are committed to supporting the City of San José’s Pathway to Carbon Neutrality.

• Recycle over 78% (326 diverted tons) of all waste collected from the meetings campus in 2023, in partnership with Z-Best.
• First in San Jose to offer ChargePoint America electrical vehicle charging stations.
• Upgraded Convention Center Ballroom to ETC Lighting System, providing the best and most innovative system in exhibit hall lighting in North America and exceeding current industry standards. LED light bulbs will last an estimated 50,000 hours and consume 80% less power than the previous system.
• Saving 365,000 gallons of water annually by closing the hot water loop, allowing Team San José to reclaim and treat domestic water.
• Using energy-efficient LED plasma screens and digital marquees for event advertising throughout the meetings campus.
• Reduce waste with motion-activated lighting, soap dispensers, water-efficient toilets and 100% recycled and biodegradable paper products.
• Utilize battery-powered service carts across the Team San José campus.
• Install FLOwater dispensers in employee break rooms to reduce the use of individual water bottles, eliminating the use of 26,000 bottles each year.
• Use Green Seal-certified cleaning products to limit harmful VOC particulates in the air. 
• Use recycled, biodegradable, 100% compostable or re-usable products sold and approved by World Centric, a leading commercial composting company.
• Donate over 1,000 hours per year by Team San José employees to local non-profits, many supporting sustainability initiatives throughout our City.
• Recycle all paper products through sustainable service leader Shred-It. We also partner with local agencies to recycle carpeting, plastic, glass, aluminum, cardboard, paper, biohazard materials, electronics, tree trimming, bio-degradable containers and all food composting.

Additionally, the Team San José culinary team embodies San José’s Climate Smart initiative.

• Source the freshest local ingredients within a 150 mile radius to create unique, customized and organic meals.
• Compost food waste, one of the few West Coast convention centers to do so.
• Provide 100% certified compostable,100% carbon neutral, plant-based meal packaging products. Serveware include plates, cups, cutlery, napkins, stir sticks and to-go box containers made from sugar cane.
• Donate and deliver meals to local food banks and shelters.