Not providing disposable daily necessities has become a trend in the hotel industry.
Editor’s note: This article is from “ love child norm “, Author: Lee extraordinary.
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 a large amount of plastic waste every year. But are these measures really so effective for environmental protection? Some environmentalists raised doubts.
Yoss 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 haveTake legal and more effective measures, but these companies distract us.
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.
The idea is beautiful, but if other hotels do not take the same measures, this will reduce their competitiveness in the industry. However, it seems that major hotel groups have reached a consensus that it can create a green corporate image and save costs. It seems to be a two-pronged thing.
But the problem is that the hotel does not provide one-off items for the role of environmental protection, may not be as big as imagined.
A MIT research indicates that may cause errors if not considered throughout the supply chain Assessing the environmental impact of certain types of products, most of the carbon footprint of companies such as Apple and Microsoft is actually from the upstream supply chain.
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There is no one-off small bottled toiletries that can reduce the amount of waste plastics, but whether the large bottles used for replacement are recyclable, environmental impacts in manufacturing, transportation, installation and maintenance, but not much attention .
This is not a negligible factor, and the current catering industry is also