RESPONSIBLE TRAVEL
Six Senses shares learnings on eliminating single-use plastics
Six Senses has released an industry resource sharing its learnings on eliminating plastic from hotel operations. The Journey to Plastic Freedom
Playbook features 82 solutions to plastic items in the areas of housekeeping, back of house, food and beverage, and spa. Items being eliminated range from plastic bags and toothpaste tubes to coffee capsules and brooms. Six Senses has distributed the resource
to the 6,400 properties under parent company IHG Hotels & Resorts, and hosted a webinar for the wider hospitality industry last month. The playbook is now available to download online.
“We decided to make a really strong push on plastic back in 2017,” says Six Senses’ vice-president of sustainability, Jeff Smith. “We had already eliminated straws, plastic water bottles and plastic shampoo bottles, so we were looking at where to go next. We decided, instead of making an incremental step forward, to make a massive push on plastic. “Fast forward to 2022, we were wrapping this up and collecting the learnings. We started gathering the best practices and stories from the hotels, and were organising them into this booklet, which we needed as a training resource internally. We thought ‘why not share it publicly?’ We want the whole industry to get off the plastic addiction, as it’s a community-scale issue. “[The 82 solutions] are not brand
standards. Someone on the ground has tried this out, and it has worked. “The resource focuses on eliminating
plastic, rather than just recycling. If even a couple of hotels found one or two useful bits of advice, that [will have]
achieved our goal.” OThe guide is available to download from
bit.ly/SixSenses82
Relais members make gains in sustainability
Relais & Châteaux has published its second sustainability report, which shows positive gains against nearly every objective set out in 2022. The association set 15 core
objectives for its 580 hotel and restaurant members across the areas of environmental conservation, sustainable cuisine, and social and societal empowerment two years ago. The report shows that 80% of members have maintained their position or recorded progress in 12 of the objectives, with 63 more members participating in the study compared with 2022. Relais & Châteaux has also
unveiled a Sustainability Commission, comprising seven spokespeople from its properties around the world, which will work to address social and environmental issues. Laurent Gardinier, Relais &
Châteaux’s president, said: “Sustainability means different things in different places, but I am confident we will reach our destination.”
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