WASTE MANAGEMENT

WASTE MANAGEMENT
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A hotel guest generates about 1kg of waste per night,

more than half of it in paper, plastic and cardboard

The European Union produces 1.3 billion tons of waste

each year. 3.5 tons of refuse and liquid or solid waste
per European citizen; nearly a 1/3 of this food waste for
which the food service industry has responsibility
Every kilo of waste equates to inefficiency used
resources, in addition the disposal of waste has to be
paid for usually by the hospitality industry operations in
the form of tipping fee

In New York City (50,000 tons daily)

it´s not unusual to have a $100.000 –a year waste bill
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METHANE
EMISSIONS
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MEET TOUGHER GOVERNMENT LEGISLATION

“Bloomberg seeks to ban
food from landfills in New
York City”

The Bloomberg administration hopes to introduce

legislation requiring hospitals, hotels, universities and
other large-scale producers of food waste to make it
into something useful rather than just send it to
landfills or incinerators.
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IT IS AN INEFFICIENT RESOURCE USE

It is more resource-efficient to make new products
by recycling rather than starting from scratch

Paper Aluminium
40% less 95% Less
energy energy
Even exporting
recycling
Plastics Glass
materials 70% less 30% less
(China) provides energy energy
5 times the
savings in CO2
emissions Steel
60% less
energy
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NON-
BIODEGRADABLE BIOLOGICAL WASTES
BIODEGRADABLE

VEGETABLE AND ANIMAL INORGANIC: PLASTICS, GLASS,

MATTER METAL HUMAN SEWAGE

HAZARDOUS WASTES E-WASTE

SOLVENTS, CHEMINCALS IN ELECTRONICS: COMPUTERS,

CLEANING MOBILE PHONES, FAX
MACHINES, TVs…
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WASTE AUDIT
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REDUCE WASTE
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PREVENTION
Creating less waste or eliminating waste before
it is created
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WORK WITH SUPPLIERS

Reduce packaging

BULK CONTAINERS FOR FOOD

HOTEL AMENITIES
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REDUCING LAUNDRY
…But guests may be sceptic
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FOOD WASTE

CAREFULLY PLANNING OF FOOD BUFFETS: ENCOURAGING GUESTS TRAINING CULINARY STAFF:

PURCHASE “COME BACK FOR SECONDS” WEIGHT FOOD TRIMMINGS AND
OTHER PRE-CONSUMED WASTE

EDIBLE LEFTOVERS: BE CREATIVE ORGANIC BREAKFAST BUFFET 52

CHICKEN IN TO SOUP, FISH INTO COMPONEMENTS INSTEAD OF 100
PATÉ… (ALSO SAVE COSTS) MARKETED AS HEALTHIER AND
HIGHER QUALITY
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NEWSPAPER DISTRIBUTION

Provide newspapers in central areas, such as the lobby,

and ask guest to request one if they want to be
delivered to their room
Marriott International stopped delivering newspaper
to every guest room

It said the new policy should reduce newspaper

distribution by about 50,000 newspapers every day or
by about 18 million newspapers every year
That would reduce carbon emissions by 10,350 tons
each year
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TOILETRIES
Scandic has reduce its waste volume by 40% and
packaging waste by 11 tonnes annually

Scandic hotel chain found that only 15% of

its soaps, shampoos and conditioners
were used, with the balance thrown away
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BY PROVING GUESTS WITH CHILLED

AND FILTERED WATER, STILL AND
CARBONATED, FROM TAPS, IT
CALCULATES IT HAS CUT CO2
EMISSIONS IN 160 TONNES/YEAR

Stay with us for a more sustainable world

An empty carafe in the hotel rooms is smart green thinking. Despite bottled water
being available to buy at Scandic Anglais in Stockholm, guests are encouraged
refill their bottles with tap water. It tastes good, costs nothing extra and does not
need transporting. A small but important example of how each hotel can help
towards a sustainable world and at the same time give you a better experience
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RECYCLE
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1. Up to 60% of the rubbish that ends up in the dustbin can be recycled

2. A recycled plastic bottle saves enough energy to power a 60-watt light bulb for three
months
3. 70% less energy is required to recycle paper compared with marking it from raw
materials
4. Plastic can take up to 500 years to decompose

5. Recycled paper produces 73% less air pollution that if it was made from raw materials

6. The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle will power a 100-watt light bulb for
almost an hour
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INSTALL
RECYCLING
BINS IN GUEST
ROOMS
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AVOID HAZARDOUS AND TOXIC

WASTE
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FATS, OILS
AND GREASE

Fairmont Hotels and Resorts is converting its

cooking oil into biodiesel in 22 properties
worldwide
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What Is Compost?
Composting is the natural process of decomposition and
recycling of organic material into a humus rich soil
amendment known as compost. For any business or
institution producing food waste, this organic material can
be easily decomposed into high quality compost

• Reduces solid waste disposal fees.

• Ends wasting large quantities of recyclable raw
ingredients.
• Educates consumers on the benefits of food waste
composting.
• Markets your establishment as environmentally
conscious.
• Markets your establishment as one that assists local
farmers and the community.
• Helps close the food waste loop by returning it back
to agriculture.
• Reduces the need for more landfill space.
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ELECTRONIC WASTE
(e-WASTE)

Check whether you can part-exchange

or return “old” equipment to your
supplier or sell or donate them to
schools, charities or companies that
specialise in refurbishing these items.
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At Whitbread’s Premier Inn hotels,

mattresses are replaced every six
years

Now, instead of sending 6,000

mattresses annually to landfill, Premier
Inn has developed a new environmental
policy and teamed up with bed
manufacturer Hypos

Hypos has developed a machine to

shred and separate mattress materials:
metal hinges and springs are recycled
back into steel products, foam is reused
in carpet underlay and textiles are
recycled into insulation products for
heating.
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REUSE
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FINDING WAYS TO USE THE WASTE FROM ONE PROCESS AS THE

RAW MATERIAL FOR ANOTHER ONE

REUSING MATERIAL IS BETTER CHOICE THAN RECYCLING,

INCINERATION OR LANDFILL

REUSING DIFFERS FROM RECYCLING IN THAT RECYCLING

The 600 ml BREAKS DOWN AN ITEM INTO ITS BASIC PARTS AND MAKES A
brown bottle NEW PRODUCT OUT OF IT, BUT REUSING AN ITEM KEEPS THE
is the MATERIAL IN ITS ORIGINAL FORM AND USES THE ITEM OVER
"standard” AND OVER AGAIN FOR THE SAME OR DIFFERENT PURPOSE
bottle reused
in Brazil
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REUSE TEXTILES
Convert damaged textiles, such as uniforms and
linens, into useful items
For example, torn bed sheets, towels and banquet linens
into reusable guest-room laundry bags, baby bibs, crib
bumper pads, aprons, cleaning rags and bar convers
either by the establishment itself or by a charity
organization
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REUSING CONTAINERS
This means that less material is needed
to manufacture containers
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TRAVELODGE HOTEL MADE

FROM SHIPPING CONTAINERS
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REUSE BOTTLES AND GLASSES

A BOTTLE THAT IS FILLED 20 TIMES ELIMINATES THE
NEED FOR MAKING 19 BOTTLES, AVOIDING NOT
ONLY THE NEED TO DISPOSE OF THOSE 19
CONTAINERS BUT AVOIDING THE ENVIRONMENTAL
EFFECTS OF MATERIAL EXTRACTION, PROCESSING,
MANUFACTURING, DISTRIBUTION AND RECYCLING
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DONATE EDIBLE, UNSED FOOD

TO LOCAL CHARITIES
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…ABOVE ALL REUSING IS ABOUT

CREATIVITY !