MGM Restaurants to Stop Using Single-Use Plastics in Q1 2019

In the interests of environmental protection, MGM has announced that the company will stop using all single-use plastics in all of its restaurants in the first quarter of 2019 - an initiative targeting plastic straws, drinkware, take-out containers, cutlery, and so forth. MGM estimates that this will remove more than 860 thousand plastic straws and more than 470 thousand plastic take-out containers a year from the environment.

Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of MGM China Holdings Limited Grant Bowie said that plastic straws and other single-use plastics are having a detrimental impact upon the natural environment and next generation. He hoped that the action would encourage more local businesses to join together to increase the environmental awareness of customers, thus contributing to the sustainable development of the territory.

Apart from the single-use plastics reduction programme, MGM is encouraging its employees to adopt waste reduction behaviour. Food waste dewatering machines, for instance, are being added to employee dining rooms in all MGM properties to reduce volume, weight and nasty odour of food waste, helping alleviate the burden on land transportation and incinerators. Meanwhile, food waste in employee dining rooms is being processed into organic fertiliser for the properties' gardens.