Green Lotto – OLG Reduces the Size of Lottery Tickets to Save Trees and Help the Environment

Do you enjoy playing the lottery? Do you ever notice that when the ticket comes out of the lotto terminal that it is printed on paper? Well, paper comes from trees and millions of trees are destroyed just to print lottery tickets. In an environmentally conscious society, we need to go green and help the environment so that future generations can enjoy it as much as we do.

Ontario Lottery And Gaming Corporation (OLG) realized. So, it decided to go green to save trees and help the environment. In June of 2009, it reduced the size of its lottery tickets by 15% to 20% in a move designed to save 3,000 trees per year. It is great that OLG decided to do this because all citizens and businesses have a duty to do what they can to help the environment; it is the right thing to do.

OLG says that reducing the size of their lottery tickets is just one of the many ways they plan on going green in. One other thing they did was converted one of its casinos in Brantford, Ontario (OLG runs all of the casinos in Ontario, Canada) to 100% green electricity from renewable resources. This came at a cost of $37.5 million.

Sure, going green might cost more, but that is not always the case. For example, OLG’s initiative of reducing the size of lottery tickets is expected to save the company approximately $1 million per year. That’s another million dollars that could be re-invested into the community to ares like healthcare and education. Helping the environment and the community – Now, that’s being responsible!

Author: Tino Sundin
Article Source: EzineArticles.com
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