LAS VEGAS—Caesars Entertainment’s 2010-2011 Sustainability Report covers calendar 2010 and the first half of 2011. It is the company’s second such report. One report highlight is an updated CodeGreen (environmental) strategy that produced new two- to five-year targets for energy conservation, renewables, water consumption, waste diversion, supply chain, and guest and employee perceptions of Caesars’ CodeGreen performance.
Other highlights:
• On track to meet 2010 target to reduce absolute carbon emissions by 10 percent from 2007 to 2013.
• Created Green Meetings & Events certificate program, graduating more than 200 managers.
• Joined and played active role in UN Global Sustainability Tourism Council.
• Launched replacement of 65,000 halogen bulbs with LED lighting that requires less than 10 percent of the electricity.
• Awards include: EPA WasteWise Gold Achievement (two resorts), Virgin Holidays “Partner in Sustainability,” Travelocity Green Hotel Certification (seven resorts).
Employee Wellness: Caesars re-envisioned its health benefits to provide on-site wellness services and incentives for employees to become healthier. By June 2011 more than 77 percent of employees had enrolled, and more than 1,000 had been alerted to diabetes, cancer, cardiac and other chronic conditions, allowing them to begin monitoring and wellness activities.
Communities: Caesars staff recycled more than 61,000 pounds of hotel soap and 43,000 pounds of bottled amenities for the nonprofit Clean the World, which sanitizes and distributes them to developing countries and low-income communities in the United States to combat illnesses preventable through proper hygiene.
Click here to download Caesars’ 2010-2011 Sustainability Report.
