Melco Resorts & Entertainment Limited

In the framework of the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative, Melco Resorts & Entertainment Limited commits to:

• Eliminating problematic or unnecessary plastic packaging and items from their rooms, and bathrooms by 2024. 
• Eliminating problematic or unnecessary plastic items from their food and drink services by 2024. 
• Introducing reusable solutions in their rooms, bathrooms, and service areas to replace plastic packaging by 2023. 
• Engaging the value chain to provide data on recyclability and compostability of plastic packaging to facilitate the move towards 100% of plastic packaging to be reusable, recyclable, or compostable by 2025.  
• Collaborating with their recycling vendors and suppliers to identify products that are recyclable in 2020/2021, including identification of actions to increase the recyclability and reusability of products and packaging starting with their logo products. 
• Engaging their existing vendors in 2020/2021 to identify further opportunities to recycle or compost high quality plastic recycling in their operations and increase collection and segregation in hotspot areas. 
• Taking action to increase the amount of recycled content across all plastic packaging and items used by 2025. 
• Working with their supply chain team to develop green specifications in 2021. These green specifications will be incorporated into tenders, purchase orders and/or agreements. The purpose of this green specification will be to help achieving Melco’s sustainability goals to promote the circular economy through the elimination of problematic plastic and increase the use of recycled material or other sustainable alternatives. 
• Collaborating with others and investing in collection and segregation of recyclable and organic materials in their facilities to help increase recycling and composting rates in practice.