Green Future Charts a New Direction in Recycling Services Through the Sands Cares Accelerator
Green Future Charts a New Direction in Recycling Services Through the Sands Cares Accelerator
Published by Las Vegas Sands on April 10, 2024
於2024年4月10日由金沙集團發佈
NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / June 12, 2024 / As its second year in the Sands Cares Accelerator came to a close in 2023, Green Future Macao is continuing to forge new directions in Macao recycling services, leveraging the funding and resources it receives from the three-year nonprofit capacity-building program.
2024年6月12日 / 美國馬薩諸塞州諾瑟安普頓 / ACCESSWIRE / 正如其在Sands Cares Accelerator中度過了第二個年頭所預示的，綠色未來澳門正在繼續在澳門回收服務中開闢新的方向，利用它從爲期三年的非營利能力建設計劃中獲得的資金和資源。
Founded in 2012 to provide education and awareness programs to improve commercial recycling rates in the region, Green Future has focused its time in the Sands Cares Accelerator on launching Sap Fong, an environmental social enterprise that provides Macao businesses with waste sorting and recycling services. Sap Fong aims to increase recycling rates in Macao and provide resources to local residents who independently gather and recycle cardboard as their main source of income.
綠色未來成立於2012年，旨在爲該地域板塊提供教育和意識項目，以改善商業回收率。在Sands Cares Accelerator中，綠色未來將重點放在啓動環保社會企業Sap Fong上，以爲澳門企業提供垃圾分類和回收服務。 Sap Fong旨在提高澳門的回收率，併爲獨立收集和回收紙板的當地居民提供資源。
At the outset of its Sands Cares Accelerator membership, Green Future leaders originally envisioned Sap Fong to be route-based and established two main service paths in which independent recycling workers gathered Macao's discarded cardboard to be sorted for recycling processes.
在加入Sands Cares Accelerator時，綠色未來的領導最初設想Sap Fong是基於路徑的，並建立了兩條主要服務路徑，其中獨立回收工人收集澳門的廢紙板以進行回收處理。
After pursuing this structure for a year, Green Future shifted to a subscriber-based approach to accelerate recycling rates. Just a few months after launching the subscription service, Sap Fong has already secured nearly 30 commercial, household and NGO clients for its subscriber service and recycled nearly 90,000 kilograms of cardboard waste in the last three months of 2023 alone.
在追求這種結構一年之後，綠色未來轉向訂閱者模式以加速回收率。 Sap Fong推出訂閱服務僅幾個月後，已經爲其訂閱服務獲得了近30個商業、家庭和非政府組織客戶，僅在2023年的最後三個月就回收了近90,000公斤的紙板廢料。
"By shifting to a subscription model, we want to make recycling seamless and accessible for everyone and empower them to become environmental advocates," Joey Choi, vice chairman of Green Future, said. "Alongside doorstep recycling, we have recently expanded our services to include eco-product purchase and delivery options, making it easier for individuals to practice environmental sustainability, thus, encouraging more people to participate and contribute to a greener future."
“通過轉向訂閱模式，我們希望使回收無縫、無障礙並賦予人們成爲環保倡導者的能力，”綠色未來副主席Joey Choi說。“除了上門回收外，我們最近還擴大了我們的服務範圍，包括生態產品購買和交付選項，使個人更容易實現環境可持續性，從而鼓勵更多人蔘與和爲綠色未來做出貢獻。”
As Green Future works through its final year in the Sands Cares Accelerator in 2024, the nongovernmental organization is focusing on increasing Sap Fong's profitability to enable long-term sustainability and aims to increase its client base by 50%.
隨着綠色未來在2024年Sands Cares Accelerator的最後一年中繼續努力，該非政府組織正在專注於提高Sap Fong的盈利能力，以實現長期可持續性，並旨在將其客戶數量增加50%。
In addition, support from the Sands Cares Accelerator has allowed Green Future to develop and launch three new offerings for independent workers who gather recyclable materials and work with service providers such as Sap Fong for recycling. Green Future has introduced a trolley exchange program that eliminates the need to queue and wait for cardboard unloading once independent workers' trolleys are full, a temporary collection point to store collected cardboard at night and opportunities for income diversification by providing client referrals.
此外，來自Sands Cares Accelerator的支持，使綠色未來爲獨立從事可回收材料的工人開發和推出了三項新服務。綠色未來推出了購物車交換計劃，消除了需要排隊等待紙板卸貨的需求，爲夜間存儲收集的紙板提供了臨時收集點，並提供客戶轉介的收入多樣化機會。
Green Future is complementing these services for independent workers with educational tours aimed at raising awareness of the challenges workers face and the importance of sustainable waste management practices, in collaboration with Oxfam. These tours have played a crucial role in promoting social inclusion for independent workers and provided job opportunities with corporations interested in recycling services.
綠色未來爲獨立工人提供的這些服務與Oxfam合作的教育之旅相輔相成，旨在提高人們對可持續廢物管理實踐的重要性和工人所面臨的挑戰的認識。這些旅遊在促進獨立工人的社會融入和爲對回收服務感興趣的企業提供了就業機會方面發揮了至關重要的作用。
Green Future now regularly interacts with more than 50 independent workers and partners with many of them to fulfill recycling services for its clients. The organization is currently planning six new tours for high school students in 2024.
綠色未來現在定期與超過50名獨立工人互動，並與他們中的許多人合作爲其客戶提供回收服務。該組織正在計劃在2024年爲高中生推出6場新的旅遊項目。
"As an environmental nonprofit organization with a longstanding focus on environmental education, we have always been passionate about our mission, but we have acknowledged that entrepreneurship, marketing and developing effective revenue-generating strategies have not been our strong suit," Rix Un, president of Green Future, said. "Through our membership in the Sands Cares Accelerator, we have had the privilege of working with a professional team from Sands that has provided us with constructive suggestions and guidance. Their expertise and support have been invaluable in the positive development of our newly established social enterprise, Sap Fong."
“作爲一家擁有長期環保教育重心的非營利性環保組織，我們一直熱衷於自己的使命，但我們也承認，創業、市場營銷和制定有效的收入生成策略並不是我們擅長的領域，”綠色未來主席Rix Un表示。“通過我們在Sands Cares加速器的成員資格，我們有幸與來自金沙公司的專業團隊合作，他們提供了富有建設性的建議和指導。他們的專業知識和支持在我們新成立的社會企業Sap Fong的積極發展中至關重要。”
The Sands Cares Accelerator was inspired by Sands' founder Sheldon G. Adelson and his legacy of creating successful businesses and giving back to communities through meaningful philanthropic involvement. Since 2017, the program has empowered Las Vegas, Singapore and Macao nonprofits to build their capacity in strategic areas and develop new initiatives to make greater community impact, with funding, structured guidance and mentorship from Sands.
Sands Cares Accelerator是由金沙公司創始人謝爾頓·G·阿德爾森激發靈感，通過有意義的慈善參與創建成功企業並回饋社區的遺產。自2017年以來，該計劃已經爲拉斯維加斯、新加坡和澳門的非營利組織提供資金、有結構的指導和指導，以在戰略領域建立他們的能力並開展新的活動，以實現更大的社區影響。
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