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SUN INTERNATIONAL ANNUAL REPORT ’10
CARBON FOOTPRINT
The group is committed to carbon disclosure and is engaging service
providers to measure its carbon footprint and implement carbon reduction
initiatives. One of our 2011 objectives is also to participate in the Carbon
Disclosure Programme (CDP).
WASTE MANAGEMENT
Waste remains one of the most significant challenges facing the group’s
environmental strategy and this year saw an overall increase of 7.5% in
waste volumes in spite of some notable efforts in waste management in
general. The increase is considered a result of improved reporting systems
and this is borne out by the fact that recycled waste levels increased by
6% across all operations with properties such as Wild Coast Sun, Meropa
and Carnival City producing the best results. The handling and disposal
of hazardous waste remains a challenge and improved awareness and
oversight of these items will be undertaken in the current year to reduce
the group’s overall risk.
Waste reduction and recovery has been identified as a primary objective for
the group EMS for 2011 and we are confident that with continued reporting
improvements, greater awareness and management of waste and improved
recovery results, the group will achieve its recycled waste target of 38% (up
from the current 27.5%) and an overall reduction of 12%.
Procurement and Supply Chain Management
We are pleased to report that the past year has seen some significant
improvements in our overall procurement and supply chain processes
which have resulted in notable local community beneficiation and
reduced environmental impacts in general. Among the most important
achievements, the efforts of Zambia and Sun City stood out this year.
The Royal Livingstone Hotel and Zambezi Sun Resort are involved in
several hydroponic and open field farming schemes which encompass
approximately 410 small scale farmers in the Livingstone area. The resort
purchases almost 70% of their fresh produce and freshwater fish needs
from these farmers to the value of approximately US$267 000 annually,
thereby contributing directly to a previously marginalised community in
Livingstone. In addition to this, the initiative has a positive impact on the
reduction of carbon emissions associated with the importing of these
products from Lusaka and South Africa.
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The introduction of a central warehouse facility in Johannesburg and
greater supply chain management initiatives resulted in a decline of 34%
in the number of deliveries being made to Sun City each week. This
has contributed to a lower carbon footprint for the resort and provides
a sound foundation on which to develop the resorts’ emissions
management strategy.
CARNIVAL CITY’S WASTE POWERS WELTERVREDEN’S TRUCKS
Carnival City, which has increased its total recycled waste levels by
3.7% to 83% of all waste generated at the property, has entered
into an innovative partnership with the nearby Weltervreden
landfill site which manages and sorts its waste, and then converts
it into methane gas to power its collection trucks.
The site’s material recycling facility consists of a number of
converted sea freight containers stacked on top of each other with
a conveyor picking belt that runs on the inside of the containers
with a waste collection container at the end of the belt where all
organic waste is removed and taken to be either converted into
methane gas or composted.
In addition to this partnership, Carnival City also ensures that all
the old oil from its 37 business partners and concessionaires is sold
for conversion into bio-diesel and that the waste from these
partners is separated at source and placed in the appropriate
recycling bins on site.