Recent hotel chain Marriott announced to replace the larger vial of shampoo, conditioner and shower gel in the shower room in 2020 with a larger bottle with a pump cover.
Marriott said it will reduce about 500 million small plastic bottles from the source into landfills. This is equivalent to 1.7 million pounds of plastic, and Marriott’s 30% plastic use per year is positive for environmental protection.
The lack of one-off daily necessities has become a trend in the hospitality industry. In addition to Marriott, Intercontinental, Hilton and other chain hotels have made similar decisions. This year, Shanghai and Guangzhou also began to require the hotel not to provide customers with “six small pieces” of disposable items.
If most hotels implement this measure, they can reduce the amount of plastic waste every year, but these measures are environmentally friendly.Is the role of protection really so great? Some environmentalists raised doubts.
Yossi Sheffi, director of the Transportation and Logistics Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, points out that the absence of disposables in the hospitality industry is more like a public relations activity. We could have taken legal and more effective measures, but these companies Distracted our attention.
Keith Barr, CEO of InterContinental Hotels Group, Indicative does not provide disposable toiletries that significantly reduce the environmental impact. However, Yossi Sheff believes that another starting point for the hotel to make this decision may be to reduce costs. Intercontinental expects to reduce the use of 200 million plastic bottles per year, saving $11 million annually.
