Waste & Circularity
Marina Bay Sands is committed to reducing waste, employing state-of-the-art technologies to maximize recycling and diverting valuable resources.
Starting from source, we constantly innovate ways to reduce unnecessary materials and packaging, transitioning to reusing or replacing items with more sustainable alternatives.
Waste Management
From material choice to disposal, comprehensive measures are taken to ensure waste generation is kept to a minimum.
Food Waste & Rescue
Adopting a three-pronged approach that is focused on people, process and technology to reduce our food waste.
Reducing Single-use Items
Guided by our global E3R Strategy – Eliminate, Reuse, Replace & Recycle – we identify opportunities to minimise waste and maximise material use.
Waste management
A comprehensive waste collection, tracking and diversion programme is implemented throughout the resort. Dedicated multi-stream recycling bins are placed throughout The Shoppes and Sands Expo & Convention Centre to encourage waste segregation. Marina Bay Sands recycles a wide range of waste, including paper, cardboard, metals, horticulture and electronic waste.
In the hotel rooms, partially-used soap bars are collected and donated to ‘Clean the World’ where they are repurposed into new bars for communities vulnerable to hygiene-related illnesses. Annually we donate up to 3,500 kg of soap bars.
Food waste and rescue
Aiming to divert 100% of our food waste by 2024, Marina Bay Sands has five aerobic digesters on site that transform food waste into residual material. We are continuously seeking innovative technologies that help us reach our goals, including an emerging technology that converts food waste into a high-calorific substrate with potential for circular applications.
Harmonising our food waste commitment with our mission to support vulnerable communities, we have a close partnership with the Food Bank Singapore to donate unserved, safe food to those in need. Since 2016, over 30,000kg of food has been donated to their network of over 370 charities.
Reducing Single-use Items
Guided by our E3R Strategy – Eliminate, Reuse, Replace & Recycle – we continue to search for opportunities to eliminate unnecessary packaging and materials. We have removed secondary plastic packaging in our hotel amenities and upgraded the products with high-quality natural materials such as bamboo or cotton. Our kitchens are also eliminating the use of cling-wrap in a phased approach. Over at Sands Expo and Convention Centre, we offer over a hundred elegant water filters to reduce bottle consumption and waste footprint at events.
We continue to partner with contemporary artisans, using imaginative circular materials to create new products, from menu cubes made of chopsticks to table numbers created from bottle corks.
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