Wednesday, August 27, 2008

KLCC Wins UN Green Globe Award

The Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC) bagged another award when it received the United Nations World Tourism Organisation Green Globe Benchmarked Bronze Status recently.

To win the award, KLCC was measured against its sustainable policy, energy consumption, portable (treated) water consumption, wastes sent to landfill, community development, paper products, cleaning products and pesticide products.

KLCC has also achieved best practices in three areas namely, energy consumption, water consumption and wastes sent to landfill.

General manager Peter Brokenshire said in the press statement that the KLCC would continue to look into more prudent measures involving all levels of staff to ensure that they were able to exceed previous performance levels.

He credited KLCC's ongoing 3R (Reduce, Re-use and Recycle) campaign which encouraged staff and visitors to segregate their rubbish into colourful bins strategically located around the centre," stated Brokenshire.

Amongst the awards already under KLCC's belt are: TravelWeekly (Asia) Industry Awards' "Best Exhibition and Convention Centre in Asia" in 2007 and the BrandLaureate Awards 2007-2008 for excellence in product branding.nchmarked Bronze Status recently.

To win the award, KLCC was measured against its sustainable policy, energy consumption, portable (treated) water consumption, wastes sent to landfill, community development, paper products, cleaning products and pesticide products.

KLCC has also achieved best practices in three areas namely, energy consumption, water consumption and wastes sent to landfill.

General manager Peter Brokenshire said in the press statement that the KLCC would continue to look into more prudent measures involving all levels of staff to ensure that they were able to exceed previous performance levels.

He credited KLCC's ongoing 3R (Reduce, Re-use and Recycle) campaign which encouraged staff and visitors to segregate their rubbish into colourful bins strategically located around the centre," stated Brokenshire.

Amongst the awards already under KLCC's belt are: TravelWeekly (Asia) Industry Awards' "Best Exhibition and Convention Centre in Asia" in 2007 and the BrandLaureate Awards 2007-2008 for excellence in product branding.



Source : Bernama
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