Make Your Hotel More Green
How often do you change your sheets at home? How many towels do you use each day at home? Not three? So why let your hotel change every thing out every day you are staying there? We can help make normal hotels more of a green hotel while we are there. Keep your towels and sheets for your three night stay and you save 66% of the hotel's laundry emissions.
Hotel guests use double the utilities at hotels than they do at home. I admit to have taken longer showers and baths, lingering in the luxury at hotels. But the costs to the world are the same. You may be on vacation, celebrating something special, on the company dime or feel what you are paying in the nightly rate justifies using everything...but the impact on the environment comes out the same. And you can impact it.
Use the suggestion box and help make hotels more green:
Allow you to keep your linens for the stay.
Use eco friendly cleaning products.
Use recycled products wherever possible.
Use refillable toiletry dispensers.
Turn down AC and heat in empty rooms.
Use compact fluorescent light bulbs and upgrade exit signs to LED models.
Recycle
Use daylight as much as possible in public areas. Install skylights!
Offer discounted rates to environmental/outdoors related groups for meetings and events.
Don't print the bill when it can be emailed. Give us the option.
Hotel guests use double the utilities at hotels than they do at home. I admit to have taken longer showers and baths, lingering in the luxury at hotels. But the costs to the world are the same. You may be on vacation, celebrating something special, on the company dime or feel what you are paying in the nightly rate justifies using everything...but the impact on the environment comes out the same. And you can impact it.
Use the suggestion box and help make hotels more green:
Allow you to keep your linens for the stay.
Use eco friendly cleaning products.
Use recycled products wherever possible.
Use refillable toiletry dispensers.
Turn down AC and heat in empty rooms.
Use compact fluorescent light bulbs and upgrade exit signs to LED models.
Recycle
Use daylight as much as possible in public areas. Install skylights!
Offer discounted rates to environmental/outdoors related groups for meetings and events.
Don't print the bill when it can be emailed. Give us the option.
Labels: eco-friendly, green, hotels
posted by - A at
5:17 PM
2 Comments:
Think larger - refinishing hotel furniture, instead of buying new furniture, has a tremendous impact upon the environment. Refinishing furniture can be done with water-based finishes, dustless prep and eliminate deforestation, smoke belching furniture factories, fossil fuel consumption of ships and trucks, etc. And the hotels win too because the cost of refinishing is about 20% of the cost of new furniture.
I think that Hyatt is already doing this now. It's a great idea.
Use wind-turbines for power, collect rain water and snow melt & use to flush toilets. Install solar panels to heat water, use recycled paper and pens throughout the hotel. Source local produce and suppliers.
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