Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas
Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas
Food & beverage Waste not, want not
Food waste is one of the main emergencies facing our planet, not least in the hospitality sector, with hotels dumping roughly 79,000t of leftover food each year. Beyond the obvious ethical and environmental challenges, that is a shame from an effi ciency perspective: leftover food can be used in a variety of interesting ways, even as some hotels are working to cut the amount guests put on their plates to begin with. Andrea Valentino talks to Jeffery Smith from Six Senses Hotels Resorts Spas and Adam Crocini from Hilton Hotels & Resorts to learn more.
affliction to avoid or endure. This attitude is not only wrong – we understand more about carbon emissions every day – but risks underplaying the ability of everyday people to shape the planet around them. The wider war against carbon emissions must,
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inevitably, be left to governments and multinationals. From recycling to travel habits, individuals can fight their own battles too. As research by Crowdsourcing Sustainability discovered, the average American could prevent hundreds of tonnes of greenhouse gases from entering the atmosphere simply by tti th i
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rom the way people talk, climate change can sometimes feel like a kind of medieval pox: unavoidable, unstoppable, a mysterious
on Climate Change uncovered, roughly 40% of the nation’s carbon footprint comes not from oil refineries or factories, but from households. Yet if swapping planes for trains and plastic for
paper are certainly two lines of attack here, arguably the most obvious area for reform is around food waste. Clearly, the urgency here is partly climactic, with 26% of the world’s greenhouse emissions emanating from food production. There are other, more explicitly ethical, pressures too. To put it bluntly, is it really necessary to leave so much food when the World Food Programme warns that 345 million of our fellow humans do not know when they are going to eat again? And if every industry, every t llt lh thi
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