According to a Las Vegas Sun report, casino resorts in the city have bought into sustainability and energy conservation as good-sense business practices.
At Caesars Entertainment casinos, for example, crews work 24 hours a day removing plastic bottles and cans from mounds of trash, salvaging nearly 20 tons of recyclables on busy weekends.
“People don’t get it because Las Vegas is a place of excess,” said Eric Dominguez, senior vice president for engineering and asset management at Caesars. “In Nevada, we’re approaching 30 percent of all of our energy use being renewable energy. We have more LEED buildings on the Strip than maybe anywhere else in the world.”
LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is a designation of the U.S. Green Building Council that ranks buildings’ sustainability.
“Las Vegas’ resort industry has invested millions of dollars into responsible operations aimed at reducing greenhouse gases, carbon emissions, waste, single-use plastics and water consumption,” Virginia Valentine, president and CEO of the Nevada Resort Association, told the Sun. “Nevada’s resort industry is a world-class leader in sustainability, environmental protection and renewable energy development.”
Newsweek has called Caesars Entertainment, operator of more than6 50 resorts, “one of America’s most responsible companies.”
Caesars and Wynn Resorts have set ambitious goals to be carbon-neutral by 2050. MGM Resorts has set a 2025 target for a 45 percent reduction in carbon emissions per square foot compared to 2007.
