A robust food waste recycling program sends approximately 10 tons of food scraps for recycling every week. The food waste is turned into compost, biofuel and animal feed.

Cigarette butts are the #1 thrown out piece of trash in the U.S. Pechanga is doing its part by collecting all cigarette butts from the casino & hotel grounds and sending them to TerraCycle. The company makes the butts into park benches and other items. The best part? It keeps toxic trash out of the landfill and from breaking down into our environment.

Bigger is better when it comes to hotel amenity bottles. Pechanga hotel rooms feature larger sized, refillable L’Occitaine shampoo, conditioner, body wash, moisturizer and hand soap. No more small, single use bottles. Like the products? They’re available for purchase, too.

All of Pechanga’s 1,100 rooms and suites are outfitted with energy-saving, LED light fixtures. All Resort Tower rooms come equipped with automatic light dimmers that decrease the output by 70% if the guest does not insert a key card into a detector near the front of the room. Casino Tower rooms will have light dimmers by June 2020. All rooms also come standard with low flow water fixtures, however, these do not affect water pressure for our guests.

When you show up to a hotel, there’s always a full roll of toilet paper in the bathroom. What happens to the half unused roll of toilet paper after you depart? Pechanga collects those partially unused rolls, as well as gently used linens and robes, and donates them to a regional rescue mission. More than 25,000 rolls get donated each year.

The entire 18-hole course is mapped for irrigation efficiency at Journey. The course’s modern system can tell to the decimal if an area receives enough water and auto shuts off. The system also acts as a weather station determining and adjusting for coming rain. If it’s raining, it doesn’t water. And it may not irrigate for several days afterward.

Manicured and golfable areas at Journey at Pechanga cover 40% less ground than typical Southern California courses. Therefore, it needs about 40% less water than most courses. Golfers love the topography of Journey. Hundreds of acres in and around the course were left in their natural states because the course is built into the hillsides, ravines and flatlands.

Journey’s two main lakes aren’t just there for golfers to sink stray drives. Precipitation naturally runs from the hills above the course and collects in the lakes on holes 5 and 15. Before a rainstorm approaches, groundskeepers use lake water to irrigate the course and deplete them to the halfway point. This allows rainwater to collect and fill the lakes.

Pechanga takes all recyclable materials and turns them over to large scale recyclers. This includes glass, aluminum, plastic, paper, cardboard and more.