We checked with the Green Hotels Association and found out what some hotels are doing to “be green”. You might want to pass this list along when you travel this summer.
• Meeting and banquet facilities are using pourers for sugar, pitchers for cream and small serving dishes for butter and jellies instead of disposable packaging.
• A Toronto hotel is recycling stained tablecloths into napkins, chef's aprons and neckties.
• Bicycles are being loaned or rented to guests.
• Coins or chips are being used for car parking and coat checking instead of paper tickets.
• Hotels are making cloth laundry bags from retired sheets.
• Mowed landscaping is being replaced by ground cover. Lawnmowers are used less, so air pollution and noise are reduced.
• A Florida hotel bought a mulcher to chop up their garden clippings and create their own mulch. The mulcher paid for itself in three months.
• A Wisconsin B&B has installed beautiful blue floor tile made from recycled automobile windshields.
• Chief engineers have found that toilet tank fill diverters in older toilets save about 3/4 of a gallon of water per flush.
• A Pennsylvania property has a 400' garden and produces organically-grown vegetables for its restaurant.
• Restaurants and bars in hotels are using daylight exclusively for as much of each day as possible.
• Solar energy is lighting signage and heating water for hotels in tropical areas.
Don't be afraid to ask the place you are thinking of staying what they are doing to be green and help the environment. During your travels, if you see something a hotel is doing to “be green”, drop us a line!
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