Inside Asian Gaming

IAG JAN 2020年1月 亞博匯 66 Macau concessionaires meet regularly to share ideas and project outcomes. “All six operators are doing a lot,” Tirupari says. “All have a different focus.” Tirupari, age 34, illustrates the broad and spreading gaming industry concern with sustainability. After graduating with a degree in civil engineering from his hometown University of Hyderabad in India and a master’s in construction management from University of Washington in Seattle, he joined Las Vegas Sands with a brief to reduce carbon emissions, waste and water use at its Las Vegas properties. He transferred to Macau during the construction of The Parisian Macao to help create the most sustainable resort in the LVS portfolio. The IR, opened in 2015, won certification from the US Green Building Council and a Macau Green Hotel Gold Award. After reprising his Las Vegas role in Sands China operations across Macau, Tirupari joined Wynn Macau in 2018 to head its sustainability efforts. His work earned 2019 citations as an Industry Rising Star at the G2E Asia Awards and one of the Emerging Leaders of Gaming 40 Under 40. LONG FOOD CHAIN At Wynn Palace, Tirupari has spearheaded key innovations in plastic bottle reduction and food waste mitigation. “Food has a big chain of waste: energy to import it, energy to cook it, then throwing it away,” Tirupari says. Wynn’s two Macau IRs generate more than a ton of food waste daily. Compactors can reduce a ton of food waste to 200 kilograms of compost, but Macau doesn’t have an agriculture sector sufficient to utilize all the compost the IRs can produce. It also doesn’t have pig farms, a top notch disposal option. Long term, Tirupari hopes the Greater Bay Area Initiative will enable Macau to overcome space constraints by utilizing land in nearby jurisdictions for sustainability efforts, not just for waste disposal but including recycling facilities and solar or wind farms. In Las Vegas, off-site renewable energy Wynn Macau’s Rishi Tirupari recently launched a trial of the Nordaq water system at Wynn Palace. 永利澳門的Rishi Tirupari最近在永利皇宮啟動了Nordaq供水系統的試用。 IN FOCUS