Inside Asian Gaming

IAG JAPAN JAN 2020 66 Melco Resorts & Entertainment recently installed over 18,000 solar panels on the rooftops of its Macau IRs. メルコリゾーツ＆エンターテイメントは最近、マカオIRの屋上に18,000枚のソーラーパネルを設置した IN FOCUS certification from the US Green Building Council and a Macau Green Hotel Gold Award. After reprising his Las Vegas role in Sands China operations across Macau, Tirupari joined Wynn Macau in 2018 to head its sustainability efforts. His work earned 2019 citations as an Industry Rising Star at the G2E Asia Awards and one of the Emerging Leaders of Gaming 40 Under 40. LONG FOOD CHAIN At Wynn Palace, Tirupari has spearheaded key innovations in plastic bottle reduction and food waste mitigation. “Food has a big chain of waste: energy to import it, energy to cook it, then throwing it away,” Tirupari says. Wynn’s two Macau IRs generate more than a ton of food waste daily. Compactors can reduce a ton of food waste to 200 kilograms of compost, but Macau doesn’t have an agriculture sector sufficient to utilize all the compost the IRs can produce. It also doesn’t have pig farms, a top notch disposal option. Long term, Tirupari hopes the Greater Bay Area Initiative will enable Macau to overcome space constraints by utilizing land in nearby jurisdictions for sustainability efforts, not just for waste disposal but including recycling facilities and solar or wind farms. In Las Vegas, off-site renewable energy facilities provide substantial proportions of power needs for many IRs. For now, though, Macau's best solution is to stop food waste in the first place. To promote waste prevention, Wynn Palace has installed a waste monitoring system that identifies food being disposed and enables analysis. The system, trialed at three of Wynn Palace’s 14 food sites early in 2019, was installed throughout the property midyear. Each networked unit include a trash container that sits on a scale, plus a computer, camera and screen. The camera reads the waste going into the trash and displays the food type on the screen; kitchen staff