Sydney’s Opera House has gone carbon neutral

Sydney’s Opera House has gone carbon neutral - And it's 5 years ahead of schedule

Sydney’s Opera House has gone carbon neutral, five-years ahead of schedule. Officials have spent the past decade working onto a growth in energy efficiency and reduction in waste. 

The Opera House accomplished this amazing achievement through the modernization of a 50-year old seawater cooling system, the changing of thousands of incandescent lights to LED lighting, and also added support for reforestation projects. 

Officials are generally working hard towards improving the Opera House’s energy efficiency and reducing the generation of waste for the past decade. 

A whole new waste handling program also has been recently launched. The program has introduced brand new recycling streams with a system that sends food waste materials that in the past would have went to land fill to a natural and organic facility that’ll be converted into energy. This increased The Opera House’s waste material recycling rate from 25 percent to 60 percent, as SMH reports. 

The next step in the Opera House’s Environmental Sustainability Plan would be to decrease its energy utilization by 20 percent, attain 85 percent recycling of operational waste materials, attain a 5-star Green Performance Rating and continue to keep its certified carbon neutral status . 

Don Harwin, NSW Minister for the Arts has stated: “By slashing energy use and ramping up recycling the Opera House has truly set the stage for others to follow”. 

This really is wonderful news and we can only hope that more of Australia’s architectural leaders follow suit.

The certification is with the Australian Government’s National Carbon Offset Standard.

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