Boyd Gaming has upped its water savings and doubled down on a push for greater diversity, according to the company’s latest environmental, social and governance (ESG) report

Boyd Gaming has upped its H2O savings and doubled down pat(p) on a thrust for greater diversity, according to the company’s modish environmental, social and governance (ESG) report.

The recent update covers Boyd’s ESG efforts inward 2021, documenting the company’s allegiance to curbing its impact on the environment, efforts to nurture a to a greater extent inclusive workspace and livelihood for local communities.

In respect to Boyd’s environmental efforts, its irrigate expenditure in 2021 was up slightly on a year-over-year basis. The troupe used 1.17bn gallons of irrigate endure year, upwardly from the 1.08bn gallons used inward 2020.

However, water uptake remains infra pre-pandemic levels, patch Boyd’s cumulative H2O savings since 2017 nearly doubled from 2020.

Concerning the company’s push for greater diversity, rough 53% of unexampled hires in 2021 were women, while 55% were from ethnic nonage backgrounds.

And inwards response to the statement, “I am treated with value disregarding of race, ethnicity, gender, eld or any other facet of my identity,” 87% of employees responded affirmatively.

Boyd’s ESG programme is built on quadruplet pillars, namely, the environment, people, communities and corporate governance, patch its civilisation is reflected, or so the companion claims, by a further iv values, collectively referred to as the “Boyd Style.”

These are “value relationships,” “integrity,” top expectations” and “work smart.” Keith Smith, Boyd’s President and CEO, commented: “The tenets of ESG get long been a part of Boyd Gaming’s mission.

“Our a la mode(p) ESG write up provides a comprehensive looking at how our company is fulfilling our ongoing loyalty to protecting the environment, treating our stakeholders with prise and unity and consistently acting inward the topper interests of the communities we telephone call home.”