Melco announces adoption of revolutionary water refill system in resort guest rooms to save 14.8 million plastic bottles annu...
December 22 2020 - 4:40AM
As part of Melco Resorts & Entertainment’s commitment to
eliminate single-use plastic (SUP) and its Zero Waste Resorts goal
by 2030, the Company has installed the Nordaq 2000 Refilling System
at Morpheus at City of Dreams, with further plans to implement the
system across its entire property portfolio in Macau, including
hotels at City of Dreams, Studio City and Altira Macau in 2021.
With the capacity to fill 2,000 bottles of purified water per hour
on-site, the system will help replace the use of plastic bottles in
Melco-operated resort guest rooms. It is estimated that the
initiative will eliminate the production, transportation, and
supply of 14.8 million plastic bottles annually, significantly
reducing plastic waste and its associated carbon footprint.
Denise Chen, Senior Vice President and
Chief Sustainability Officer of Melco Resorts &
Entertainment, said, “Melco remains fully committed to the
elimination of all problematic and unnecessary plastic items and
the promotion of a circular economy across our global operations.
We successfully removed 100% of SUP bottles provided in all
colleague areas at our resorts in 2019, saving approximately
244,000 bottles per year, equivalent to 3.5 tonnes of PET plastic
per year. We are pleased to extend these efforts through the Nordaq
water refill system for guest room use as we continue to adopt
alternative, cutting edge solutions to not only eliminate the use
of SUP but also enhance the guest experience.”
As part of the Company’s broader sustainability
strategy ‘Above & Beyond’, Melco is the first hospitality and
integrated resort operator, globally, to sign up to the New
Plastics Economy Global Commitment. In developing roadmaps across
its global operations to address the use of SUP, the Company stands
in support of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the UN Environment
Programme’s call for more businesses to commit to eliminating
problematic packaging. The Company also recently announced the
rolling out of the Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)-powered product
Winnow Vision into its own-operated buffet restaurants to tackle
one of the industry’s biggest challenges, food waste.
Johanna Mattsson, CEO of Nordaq
Group, states, “We are extremely proud and honoured to get
the chance of helping Melco making this achievement, to support
Melco to make the switch of tapping their own premium water
in-house. Saving the environment from 14.8 million plastic bottles
per year will make a huge impact. Once again, we prove
sustainability can be premium.”
About Melco Resorts & Entertainment
Limited
The Company, with its American depositary shares
listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market (NASDAQ: MLCO), is a
developer, owner and operator of integrated resort facilities in
Asia and Europe. The Company currently operates Altira Macau
(www.altiramacau.com), an integrated resort hotel located at Taipa,
Macau and City of Dreams (www.cityofdreamsmacau.com), an integrated
urban resort located in Cotai, Macau. Its business also includes
the Mocha Clubs (www.mochaclubs.com), which comprise the largest
non-casino based operations of electronic gaming machines in Macau.
The Company also majority owns and operates Studio City
(www.studiocity-macau.com), a cinematically-themed integrated
resort in Cotai, Macau. In the Philippines, a Philippine subsidiary
of the Company currently operates and manages City of Dreams Manila
(www.cityofdreamsmanila.com), an integrated resort in the
Entertainment City complex in Manila. In Europe, the Company is
currently developing City of Dreams Mediterranean
(www.cityofdreamsmed.com.cy) in the Republic of Cyprus, which is
expected to be the largest and premier integrated destination
resort in Europe. The Company is currently operating a temporary
casino, the first authorized casino in the Republic of Cyprus, and
is licensed to operate four satellite casinos (“Cyprus Casinos”).
Upon the opening of City of Dreams Mediterranean, the Company will
continue to operate the satellite casinos while operation of the
temporary casino will cease. For more information about the
Company, please visit www.melco-resorts.com.
The Company is strongly supported by its single
largest shareholder, Melco International Development Limited, a
company listed on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong
Limited and is substantially owned and led by Mr. Lawrence Ho, who
is the Chairman, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of
the Company.
About Nordaq
Nordaq is a premium water brand used by many of
the world’s top chefs and sommeliers, thanks to its patented
solution making water taste like water and everything else taste
like it should. The water solution, engineered, developed and
patented by Nordaq, is just not of highest quality but also
environmentally friendly, with excellent costs and benefits, thanks
to being purified and tapped in-house. Nordaq proves luxury and
sustainability can go hand in hand, for a superior taste and a
clean planet. For more information about Nordaq, please visit
www.nordaq.com.
For media enquiries, please
contact:Chimmy LeungExecutive Director, Corporate
CommunicationsMelco Resorts & Entertainment Tel: +852 3151
3765Email: chimmyleung@melco-resorts.com
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