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Environmental Management

The Crown Resorts Board has ultimate responsibility for environmental matters relating to Crown’s business. Two committees of the Board have a mandate that extends to monitoring environmental issues – the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Committee and the Risk Management Committee. Both the CSR Committee and the Risk Management Committee regularly report to the Board. The Crown Environment Policy sets out an overall framework and approach to minimising Crown’s environmental impacts. Crown’s environmental vision and strategy are supported by the executive management and communicated to all levels of management and front-line employees.
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Environmental Management System

Crown Melbourne has adopted an Environmental Management System (EMS) in line with ISO14001 guidelines. The EMS provides a framework for monitoring and managing Crown’s environmental impact. Crown has also established an Environmental Committee with representatives from each business unit to assist in monitoring and managing environmental performance and identify improvement initiatives.

Environmental initiatives are incorporated into Crown’s business decision making, contract negotiation, procurement criteria, and training and education programs for employees. Environmental considerations are included in the evaluation of new projects and relevant employees are also assigned key performance objectives covering performance of plant and equipment and reduction in energy consumption.

Reporting and Verification

Crown has invested in a comprehensive monitoring and reporting system which provides live data for measuring electricity, natural gas and water consumption throughout both properties. This enables resource-saving initiatives to be identified and their improvements tracked as they are implemented. Providing customised time-of-use data to each of the business units is critical to enabling a process of continuous improvement for environmental performance into the future.

Crown receives monthly reports for transport energy, waste generation and effluents discharged, which are then incorporated into Crown’s financial reporting systems, reviewed by senior management on a monthly basis and reported to the Executive on an annual basis along with all other environmental performance data.

Crown reports under the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (NGER) system and participates in the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) on an annual basis. The CDP is run by an independent not-for-profit organisation which holds the largest database of corporate climate change information in the world (refer to www.cdproject.net).

Communication

Crown's Eco-shoots team (comprised of volunteer employees) was formed in 2011 and conducts environmental awareness events that encourage employees to refuse, reduce, re-use and recycle. Their major campaigns include Mobile Muster, and Battery Recycling.

All potential suppliers and contractors to Crown are required to provide information on their environmental credentials and performance of their product or service when they register their interest in participating in a tender. Information such as the EMS of the company, energy efficiency of their products and how they will assist Crown in achieving its environmental goals are then incorporated into the supplier assessment. The progress and achievements of the project is then communicated to employees via educational programs including on-line induction programs, formal training of relevant employees and internal forms of communication.

In 2014 Crown introduced an Environmental Sustainability on-line training module for all staff and contractors. This highlights Crown’s objectives, where employees and contractors can assist, and how to improve their environmental performance at Crown. The module has been one of Crown’s most successful employee engagement activity and has been instrumental in improving our recycling rates across the property. In recognition of its success, the module won the Gold Award for Best eLearning Design at the annual LearnX Awards in 2015.

Partnerships

As well as internal programs, Crown proudly participated in a number of externally organised programs, including the global Earth Hour when Crown turned off all non-essential lighting, Clean-up Australia Day, and World Environment Day. To help reduce the environmental impact of product packaging, Crown Melbourne is a signatory to the Australian Packaging Covenant. The covenant is a voluntary initiative by government and industry to reduce the environmental effects of packaging on the environment. Crown Melbourne is also a signatory to the Waste-Wise Network and the City of Melbourne’s 1200 Building Program.

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