If you are planning a trip away – regardless
of whether it is for business or pleasure, you now have the choice
of finding a hotel which is environmentally friendly! There
are what have become known as ‘green’ hotels that try their hardest
to recycle and reduce the amount of energy consumed annually.
There are many ways for hotels to save energy
and recycle which include: only cleaning the bedrooms on request.
This cuts down on the amount of laundry and electricity used for
vacuuming etc – as well as the amount of man power actually
needed.
Many hotels also request that you re-use your
towels rather than having fresh ones every day. This saves a lot of
energy – especially in busy hotels. Some hotels also have their own
bins for recycling glass, plastic and aluminum. This way both staff
and guests can enjoy the luxury of east recycling and therefore the
program becomes a lot more successful. By something as simple as
making the bins readily available, it is possible to see an
enormous increase in the recycling efforts of both guests and
staff.
Hotels that are on the ‘green’ list
are leading the way in terms of recycling and actually find
that over 70 per cent of their customers have helped to
develop energy and cost saving ideas and fully abide by the
rules. A lot of these hotels put suggestion cards in the
room which guests fill out and many of these ideas have been
employed by the hotels.
Hotels which are popular for business
meetings, formal dinners and the like, simple changes such as using
pourers for sugar and pitchers for cream significantly cut down on
the waste produced by using individually wrapped sugars/sweeteners
and cups of cream. The end-of-the-day waste has seen a significant
drop in hotels which have changed to this. Some hotels now even let
their guests know that water will be poured on request at meetings,
rather than having large jugs which just sit there and get thrown
away afterwards.
As well as these energy and cost saving
means, which directly involve the guests, there are many things
which are being done that the average guest does not see. For
example, water-saving devices save the water that is flushed by
about 75 per cent. This never actually affects the flush in anyway
but does make for enormous savings on the cost of utilities. The
way it works is that a toilet tank fill diverter is fitted into the
head of a shower to cut down on the amount of water used, but it
will not be noticed by any guests.
It is very promising that more and more
hotels and guest houses are becoming environmentally friendly and
conscious about energy saving issues. It is vital for everyone to
start cutting down on waste and cutting costs. If you make the
effort to choose a hotel which does this already, those that do not
will be forced into changing their ways. That way, even when we are
away from home, we can still be assured that we are helping the
environment.
Vt. hotel project awarded grant to reduce waste BurlingtonFreePress.com, VT - Nov 19, 2008 The Resource Conservation Challenge works to reduce waste, reuse and recycle more products, buy more recycled and recyclable produces and reduce toxic ... Hotels unite to recycle glass containers - Media Newswire (press release)
Hotels unite to recycle glass containers Media Newswire (press release), NY - Nov 18, 2008 Administered by the Hong Kong Hotels Association, the programme aims to recover and recycle beverage glass containers generated by the participating hotels...
Hotels that are on the ‘green’ list
are leading the way in terms of recycling and actually find
that over 70 per cent of their customers have helped to
develop energy and cost saving ideas and fully abide by the
rules. A lot of these hotels put suggestion cards in the
room which guests fill out and many of these ideas have been
employed by the hotels.
