After a long day at the Total Life Cycle travel sustainability summit, members of the team stayed at the Savoy, Strand, London.
Some of you may recall my posts about single use plastics in the hotel rooms we stay at, as the TLC team travel internationally. With a hotel room in Honduras having 19 single use plastic items per hotel room night, and to our horror a luxury hotel on Miami beach, Florida having 24, yes 24 items of single use plastic per room night.
Well I would like to categorically state, after a night at the Savoy, that classy, high end, luxury hotels can achieve not a single piece of single use plastic per room night. Incredible…
Liquids were in glass bottles, only a paper liner at the base of bins, coffee pods were aluminium, toiletries were wrapped in paper or card and presented beautifully in a splash proof amenity box, soaps, shampoos and lotions were in multi-use dispensers.
Congratulations to their sustainability director and the hotel for getting this so right! And it demonstrates that world class hotels, with guests of particularly high standards, can curate their quality spaces to achieve zero single use plastic in their rooms.
Impressive!!!
Aluminium not plastic coffee pods
No plastic refreshment packaging
No plastic bin liners