Topic: Environmental Impact of Traditional or Land Base Casinos (Read 392 times)

Yes!
Physical casinos are big villains for the environment and online casinos have taken advantage of this problem to raise the "green flag" saying that they are much more sustainable.

This was good, because in contrast, many things have already changed in physical casinos...

Material recycling
Many casinos have started to adopt recycling practices to minimize the environmental impact of their business. This includes things like recycling waste, recycling oil and recycling construction materials.

Renewable Energy
Those bunch of colorful and flashy lights do in fact use a lot of energy, which is why nowadays it is difficult to find a casino that has not yet invested in renewable energy sources such as solar or wind energy to reduce their costs and also have a "lighter carbon footprint", thus improving their image in society.

Food sustainability
Even the way we eat has changed in many casinos, they are taking steps to make their businesses more sustainable when it comes to food too, including organic and locally sourced foods, as well as avoiding buying foods with excessive packaging.

These are some of the changes I have noticed in Argentine casinos (which I have visited recently) and in the reports of other people.

Unfortunately, there are no physical casinos in Brazil, but I would like to know if this has actually happened worldwide, as I hope that physical casinos will never be completely replaced by online casinos.

What?

The mission why someone create a casino is to make money, not to support green and renewable energy. As long as the casino not owe anything and they paid the utility bills, they will not have any problem to consume a lot water and non renewable energy.

The casino will not bear the gamblers losses because they have self exclusion feature, but they need to make sure there are no underage gambling in their casino.

I was even thinking you would mentioned about their taxation, yes most times the reason casino owners do not care about the environmental impact and implications of running such casino that they are already remitting their tax to the government. So most of them do not care about the environmental effects if it would affects people negatively or positively, and for the negative effects government would never allow them to operates if the effects is deadly to human life except they see its as something minor and also remitting their taxes. Most of the owner do not care about human Beings because they mostly focused on the profits they derives from the business and after they pays their staffs and that is all.

I have not paid much attention to this but I doubt if land based casinos care about the kind of environmental impact they create. What they are mostly after is the success of their business and perhaps since they are operating with license, if there's any charge given to them by the authority, they could just pay it off.
  For example, there's one headline news I saw, it's about a man that was doing fish farm in a residential environment and he doesn't take good care of the place which therefore causes bad smell that's usually  unpleasant to people living around. So, he was being reported to the environmental agency of the country and instead of them to stop him, he bribed them off.

So, the casino might not really care about the environmental impact but if there's a negative impact they are causing, they will be answerable to the authority.

I think what OP meant was not something like that, the consequences, the impact of gambling that is done is a clear risk that we must bear ourselves, whether it is losing a large amount of money, losing assets because they are sold or others, because it is the result of our own actions that are carried out based on our own awareness.

In addition, if you say that the casino is responsible for what happens to its players, I think that is impossible, in fact there is no certainty that the casino will bear what happens to its players such as bankruptcy or others, Gambling is something that is risky and this is clear but the risk itself can be minimized by ourselves, who respond to it as it is. If we can be wise, the risk will not be too great.

Let me ask you first, do you know how much these casinos make that they can't solve all these problems and have more than enough to keep the casino up and running? Electricity, waste management, water supply to mention a few others you highlighted. All of these things are not important or a problem to the casino. Even a house owner can manage all these bills talk more of a casino that has millions of dollars in it.

If damages keep happening to people visiting the casino regularly because of these factors, then the casinos will lose lots of customers. But who cares, same way they don't care about how the gambler loses money even under some environmental circumstances. This is why I would prefer online casinos any day and any time.

While a casino will definitely use more resources and this can have an environmental impact, at the same time I do not really see the need to worry about it, there are many other industries that represent a way bigger impact, and it is why governments all around the world set additional taxes to those industries, while the special taxes casinos have to pay are sin taxes, which are imposed to businesses that foment a behavior the government believes can be harmful to their citizens.

I would say land base casino don't really have an impact on it's environment unless they are going against regulations that might lead to them having problem with their environment. They would always do their mitigation risk to avoid been closed down by the state authorities.

If the count is 0.1 it is too small in my opinion, however, business developers will definitely pay attention to the environment, more or less will definitely produce waste that is produced, but how much is no more than a shop that operates 24 hours, the same and of course they also provide a disposal site or pay a cleaning tax to deal with this.

Cleanliness in casinos is certainly very concerned, then they sell food and drinks which must have been prepared without disposal, also waste from other activities must have been calculated very well to but operate in accordance with the regulations allowed by the local government, because in a region has rules in the implementation of business operations.

Realistically any big business would never think about it because a company would only think about how to make more money from their business and would not have time to think about the impact.
Well, it is the same as land based casinos which most likely do not have this kind of thinking and even if there are casinos that care about the environmental impact, it is only 0.1 casinos in the world that we will not be able to find.

If we think about how land based casinos operate, there might be a lot of energy waste that they do, but I don’t think that casino owners and the government care about that, I mean when casino owners make a lot of money from it and the government gets a lot of taxes from this industry, they will put those issues aside and prioritize money. That is the reality. But even so, land based casinos are still needed and are a source of income and entertainment for many people, so when discussing this issue it might be a bit complicated.

Well it's very certain that the casinos are not really bothered about making any impact to the environment cause whatsoever risks they have undergone just to make sure the land based casino it's at the level it is now is only based on the fact that they want the gamblers to be at a comfortable place while having fun cause this is the medium in which they make more funds to the casino.

All I know is a business should be environment-compliant to be able to run a business, and for every gallon of water and kwh of electricity they've used, they pay for it so these providers of water and electricity continue to produce. This is a cycle of business; they pay their taxes, employ people, and serve their clients. If the government sees that, they are contributing to an environmental hazard; their operation will be shutdown. So far, the majority of land-based casinos operate on a business level. I have not read of casinos being shut down for the harmful environmental impact they produce.

Do you think that the casinos are the ones to be responsible for any of our misfortunes at the cause of gambling, everyone of us is at his own risk, we are to plan and prepare for what we want in gambling, any environmental impact received will be held responsible on us and not the gambling platform, because we are the ones that go to them, uses their services and gamble, we should also be able to manage the risk involved as well as the environmental impacts, they cant do anything to mitigate risk on behalf of the gamblers because that is going to be a short on them from meeting up their targets, except we do so from our own end.

To be honest, it seems to me that you are doing the wrong things. If you really want to help the environment of our planet, then do some real work, fortunately, in almost any point of our planet there is something to do to preserve the environment in its original form (if you can call it that) for as long as possible. There are a huge number of businesses in the world that do not comply with the standards for emissions, waste disposal, etc. Why you are interested in this issue, specifically the gambling sphere, remains a big question for me.

If in your post the word "casino" is replaced with "factory", "plant" or other manufacturing enterprise, nothing will change in principle. As long as the "enterprise" brings in income and pays taxes, no one cares about the threat it creates to the environment. Casinos have a lot of money, which makes it easy to bribe the necessary authorities (in those countries where this is possible). What am I getting at? Because casino owners don't care about the problems they create for the environment and are only concerned about profit. The only measures casinos take to reduce environmental risks are to bribe officials from regulatory agencies who cover up their "dark deeds" related to the environment.

The casino pays for all those services that you have mentioned and it's left for government workers in those various offices to do their job properly making sure that their is availability of electricity and water. Casinos pay their taxes and don't forget that there are also some benefits that people living in that environment will benefit from the casino. Casino is a normal business like a big hotel which means there are other businesses that messes the environment up, and no one shows concern about it.

I really don't understand the point you are trying to make, everyone makes us of electricity so how casinos consuming too much power or using too much of other resources? When it comes to use of electricity, water and so on you should be concerned about factories and industries more. Land base casinos has no form of environmental impact, so this is quite inaccurate. Land based casinos can cause socialtal and mental damage but environmental impacts isn't one of the negativities of this. Well, you still expressed the topic in an intelligent manner.

Less than 10% casinos in Europe have swimming pools and most of them are in the hotels that the casino is part of it, in most capitals even Paris and London, having a physical casino with a swimming pool is rather an expectation than the rule, go more eastwards and you probably won't find one at all. All of what you quote there is for the US, in the rest of the world nothing comes close to that and if you again look at te amount of electricity and spare capacity the US has it all starts to really fade away into insignificance.


A casino that is operated only during daylight time, it's all made out of wood, the drinks are room temperature because let's not waste energy on ice, and obviously has no air conditioning, how long do you think it will stay in business? I don't see an influx of hippies gambling to keep the business afloat

Nah, it’s like typical business that consumes energy. There’s factory that consume more energy in regular basis which still operates without any problem despite environmental impact so I doubt they will think about their own environmental impact that is far lesser.

I think they are more concerns on the impact to the community life since casino is always the cause of addiction. This is why most of the casino has a responsible gambling terms to educate their players to gamble responsibly.