Our local teams play a vital role in our environmental efforts. In FY2024, they contributed by conducting approximately 920 “eco-walks,” which help minimize our environmental impact by ensuring infrastructure and equipment at each club are functioning properly. In addition, in FY2024 13 new safety supervisors completed training on internal environmental modules, and our employees completed more than 670 environmental awareness training sessions totaling more than 3,360 work hours on topics including waste management, water and energy conservation, climate change, and others.
Our local teams play a vital role in our environmental efforts. In FY2024, they contributed by conducting approximately 920 “eco-walks,” which help minimize our environmental impact by ensuring infrastructure and equipment at each club are functioning properly. In addition, in FY2024 13 new safety supervisors completed training on internal environmental modules, and our employees completed more than 670 environmental awareness training sessions totaling more than 3,360 work hours on topics including waste management, water and energy conservation, climate change, and others.
This brings the number of clubs with recycling stations to seven. In FY2024, these public recycling stations helped divert a total of 1,148 tons of material from landfills. We look forward to adding new recycling stations in FY2025.
Our public recycling stations complement our robust internal recycling program, which has been in effect since 2019. In FY2024, we collected 11,507 tons and 617,834 units of materials within our clubs, facilities, and corporate offices.
Our Green Office program seeks to engage employees in creating a greener and more sustainable office environment through a variety of actions including energy conservation, waste reduction, and adopting eco-friendly habits.
Every contribution counts towards our collective goal of environmental stewardship, and we’ve created a reward structure to encourage offices to do their best.
In FY2024, several offices engaged in a wide range of initiatives with a positive impact on the community or the workplace such as park and beach cleanups, bottle collections, and setting up beehives, and many earned “gold” status in our internal ranking for their efforts.
That includes our two clubs in Jamaica, where team members embarked on a series of environmental awareness and engagement campaigns that got employees excited, empowered, and eco-conscious.
Earning top marks for their efforts inspired the two clubs to apply for certification under a local program called Green Business Jamaica. The program is overseen by Jamaica’s National Environment and Planning Agency and encourages participants to become environmental stewards by adopting global sustainability best practices within their operation. We congratulate them on achieving this certification.
Rooftop solar installations on our clubs help to minimize our environmental impact by powering our operations with clean energy. Solar is considered in the design of any new clubs, and where appropriate, we look for opportunities to expand our existing solar arrays.
In FY2024, we expanded our solar generating capacity by 25,657 kWp – an increase of 8.10% – to 27,735 kWp total by expanding existing arrays in the following locations: Zapote, Escazú, Heredia, Llorente, and Tres Ríos in Costa Rica; El Sauce, Honduras; and Pradera, Guatemala. In addition, we opened two new clubs in FY2024 which are being considered for solar arrays.
We also installed a 1,439 kWp rooftop array on our Miami distribution center, which houses our east coast corporate office.
