HOTELS & HOSPITALITY
Digitalise access control Digital ID is an access control and ID card specialist that supplies thousands of key cards to the hotel industry each year. To address the environmental impact of that, the brand has been working towards more sustainable practices.
“We only print and issue sustainable photo ID cards to our customers,” begins Adam Bennett, “we’re making a conscious effort to reduce our carbon footprint and help protect the planet from plastic pollution.
“As standard, our hotel key cards are made from 50% pre- consumer recycled PVC meaning hotels can work more sustainably without compromising quality or security. Each card has been made using recycled plastic materials that have been diverted from the waste stream, in essence giving the plastic a second life.”
Eventually, the digitalisation of hotel key card systems could completely do away with plastic waste from access control in the sector. Moving to mobile credentials would mean that the person’s mobile phone would be used in the same way as a key card, with permission being managed from a central control panel in real time. It’s a more secure way of managing access control as permissions can be instantly revoked - no more lost key cards.
Ask guests to sleep on it… (or under it) Aside from automating light and heat levels and asking guests to reuse towels, there are some soft furnishing swaps that can contribute to going greener.
Claire Watkin, Managing Director at The Fine Bedding Company, which is working to become the first European bedding manufacturer to receive B Corp certification,
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explains more: “Sustainability is at the heart of everything we do as a business, within our hospitality division and consumer facing products.
“The fibres in all duvets for our hotel partners are made using recycled post-consumer plastic bottles. We use an innovative practice which sterilises the plastic, before being processed and spun into fibres and fabrics which we use across our range. Our highly washable Spundown range and our new Vegan Down collection, designed to mimic real goose down whilst being entirely vegan, have been our most popular with our hotel partners.
“All duvets and pillows are made in our own eco-factory, which runs entirely off certified renewable energy and the facility is also zero waste; anything that is left over is turned into another product. For example, certain fibres that aren’t suitable for bedding we supply to factories that make teddy bears. Everything else is recycled – from cardboard to wastewater, which is filtered and sent to local farmland.”
Working with like-minded organisation Working towards becoming more eco-friendly doesn’t have to a be painful process, more a gradual transition. It’s about making conscious decisions. When it comes to renewing supplies think about choosing companies that have the same ethical and environmental commitments as yours and it will mean you’re halfway towards your goal.
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