Burswood’s Environmental Footprint
Burswood has placed a particular focus on reducing its environmental impact by pursuing meaningful activities in water conservation, waste reduction and energy efficiency. As part of this focus, Burswood has recently formed a dedicated Environmental Committee consisting of employees from all sectors of its business; an endorsed environmental management policy and environmental management system.
The policy outlines Burswood’s commitment to the environment through a number of energy reducing, water saving and waste management initiatives. View our policy
Waste Management
Burswood encourages recycling around the Complex with custom-made recycling bins. Recycling programmes are also currently in place for:
- cardboard
- paper
- cooking oil
- glass
- tins
- polystyrene
- plastic wrap
Through these initiatives, Burswood diverts over half of its usage of these materials from landfill.
Water Conservation
Burswood has recently implemented a number of water saving initiatives:
- Water restrictors fitted in faucets.
- Water saving shower heads used in all hotel guest rooms.
- Bore water used for irrigation across the whole Complex.
- Installed bio-sleave technology to reduce flush times on urinals.
Through these initiatives, Burswood has significantly reduced its water usage and in 2008, was awarded the Water-Wise Award in the Business and Government Agency (greater than 100,000 litres) category.
Energy Conservation
Burswood has an energy monitoring programme in place and has continued to introduce new energy saving initiatives throughout the Complex.
Recent energy conservation projects include:
- Time management of air conditioning plants.
- Lighting continually assessed and changed to more energy effective units – compact fluorescent lights, LED, sodium and voltage controlled units fitted.
- Central plant and equipment retrofitted and replaced with the latest technologies.
- Energy saving key tags in all hotel guest rooms to ensure automatic switch-off of power.
Burswood Entertainment Complex is also a proud supporter of Earth Hour.
