Environmental Impact

We’re redefining what it means to be a gambling company and working to create positive environmental and social impact for communities across B.C. and beyond.

 

 

Addressing our environmental risks and improving our environmental impacts

At BCLC, we are addressing our environmental risks and collaborating with the industry to improve our environmental impacts. Learn more about our actions as we continue to seek ways to integrate our social purpose—to generate win-wins for the greater good—into all that we do.

Embedding our ESG Framework in our organization

Creating Meaningful Impact: An Inclusive and Flexible Approach to Statutory Holidays

For Nicole Semenoff, advisor on BCLC’s Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging team, the flexibility to substitute statutory holidays for days of personal importance, through the organization’s Inclusive Holiday Program, has been a game-changer.

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BCLC supports low-carbon commuting

We encourage our employees to make environmentally-conscious choices for their commutes. We do this by providing facilities in our offices that make cycling an easier choice, offering an e-bike purchase program and providing the option to use electric vehicles for work travel.

Integrating sustainability into our procurement process

As part of our new policy, we now structure requests for proposals (RFP) to include specific questions about sustainability.

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Climate-change accountability

We are working to meet or exceed the provincial greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets.* With the Science Based Target Initiatives (SBTi) as our guide, we are set on the path to becoming a net-zero organization by 2050 and continue to generate win-wins for the greater good. 

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Waste management

Through continual efforts, our Vancouver and Kamloops offices divert nearly 80 per cent of waste from landfill through recycling and composting. Our Kamloops head office has switched to a more robust composting vendor that is able to accept many items that were considered landfill or recycling previously, and introduced soft plastics recycling. 

We also divert electrical and electronic equipment (e-waste) from landfill though recovering, re-selling and recycling end-of-life casino and lottery equipment. To comply with B.C.’s Provincial Recycling Regulation, BCLC is a steward of the Electronic Products Recycling Association of B.C.

In regards to paper products produced, BCLC is a member of RecycleBC’s product stewardship program and reports on the production and disposal of all paper products.

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Industry leadership

We support our suppliers and service providers to be more environmentally conscious in their decisions and actions. Although we don't directly control these other groups, we provide leadership in minimizing the environmental and social impact where we work, and in our interactions with British Columbians. 

Learn more about our environmental impact in our Annual Report

Recent articles

Our People

BCLC Welcomes its First All-Indigenous Cohort of Customer Support Associates

May 29, 2025

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Our Business

Fostering reconciliation through employee education

May 23, 2025

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Creating Meaningful Impact: An Inclusive and Flexible Approach to Statutory Holidays

December 19, 2024

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Our Business

BCLC hosts Indigenous-owned businesses at showcase event

December 17, 2024

Indigenous Vendor Showcase at the Kamloops headquarters