Las Vegas Sands Helps Clean the World Celebrate Launch of New Equipment
June 11 2014 - 3:30PM
Marketwired
Las Vegas Sands Helps Clean the World Celebrate Launch of New
Equipment
Company Also Announces Community Effort to Build 100,000 Hygiene
Kits for Use in Nevada and Across America
LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwired - Jun 11, 2014) - Las Vegas Sands
Corp. (NYSE: LVS) and Clean the World, a not-for-profit global
hygiene organization, today unveiled new manufacturing equipment at
Clean the World's Las Vegas facility that will help the
organization double its production of recycled soap, helping people
in need both domestically and around the globe.
At an event launching the new equipment, the two organizations
also announced LVS' underwriting of 100,000 Clean the World hygiene
kits for distribution through the American Red Cross to local and
national disaster victims and a mass community effort to build the
kits at LVS' Venetian and Palazzo properties in the coming
months. The new soap recycling equipment and disaster relief
kit build have been made possible as part of a $1 million corporate
partnership between LVS and Clean the World in 2014 -- the largest
corporate donation in Clean the World's history.
The new machinery unveiled today will sanitize and recycle
enough soap gathered from Las Vegas-area hospitality properties to
produce nearly 20,000 three-ounce bars of soap a day. With this
equipment build-out, Clean the World will increase its soap
production and distribution to more than 6.5 million bars of soap a
year.
Since its establishment in 2009, Clean the World's mission is to
collect discarded hygiene products from hospitality companies,
including Las Vegas Sands, recycle and sanitize them through an
automated process and distribute to those in need around the world.
Once delivered, the soap helps reduce the risk and spread of
hygiene-related diseases, such as pneumonia, cholera and dysentery
in more than 95 countries, including the United States.
"Today, we helped usher in an exciting expansion of Clean the
World's Las Vegas facility and it will have tremendous impact on
the organization's ability to give a simple bar of soap to people
throughout Nevada who don't have this basic luxury," said Michael
Leven, LVS president and chief operating officer. "Clean the World
has been an innovative leader in helping impoverished people,
demonstrating how a smart sustainable idea can impact people's
lives."
LVS team members also participated in today's event, by building
hygiene kits that will go to help vulnerable people served by the
Las Vegas Rescue Mission; Shade Tree, which provides shelter and
support for women, children and their pets; and Three Square, which
is Southern Nevada's only food bank that provides food assistance
in Lincoln, Nye, Esmeralda and Clark counties. In total, Las
Vegas LVS team members will build 8,000 hygiene kits for these
three organizations as part of the company's overall commitment to
Clean the World.
"Thanks to the valued commitment and partnership from Las Vegas
Sands, this new equipment elevates Clean the World's mission to a
higher level and greatly expands our reach," said Shawn Seipler,
founder and executive director of Clean the World. "The soap that
leaves our Las Vegas facility will make its way into shelters and
other service organizations to provide support for people in need
in Las Vegas and as well as to global communities where simple
hygiene can mean the difference between life and death."
LVS has partnered with Clean the World since 2011, successfully
diverting more than 50 tons of waste from LVS properties that
resulted in more than 550,000 bars of recycled soap. The Clean
the World partnership is part of the company's larger global
corporate citizenship program, Sands Cares. Launched in April, the
program brings together the company's corporate social
responsibility priorities: supporting people in the company and the
hospitality industry, making local communities where LVS operates a
better place to live, and reducing environmental impact on the
planet.
For more information about Sands Cares and key initiatives,
please visit www.sandscares.sands.com.
About Las Vegas Sands Corp. Las Vegas Sands (NYSE: LVS) is the
world's leading developer and operator of Integrated Resorts. Our
collection of Integrated Resorts in Asia and the United States
feature state-of-the-art convention and exhibition facilities,
premium accommodations, world-class gaming and entertainment,
destination retail and dining including celebrity chef restaurants,
and many other amenities.
Our properties include the five-diamond Venetian and Palazzo
resorts and Sands Expo Center in Las Vegas, Sands Bethlehem in
Eastern Pennsylvania, and the iconic Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.
Through majority ownership in Sands China Ltd., LVS owns a
portfolio of properties on the Cotai Strip in Macao, including The
Venetian Macao, The Plaza and Four Seasons Hotel Macao and Sands
Cotai Central, as well as the Sands Macao on the Macao
Peninsula.
LVS is dedicated to being a good corporate citizen, anchored by
the core tenets of delivering a great working environment for
nearly 50,000 employees worldwide, driving impact through its Sands
Cares corporate citizenship program and leading innovation with the
company's award-winning Sands ECO360° global sustainability
program. To learn more, please visit www.sands.com.
Contacts: Ron Reese (702) 414-3607 Ciara Matthews (702)
414-4765
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