Hotels Get Creative While Going Green

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed)
Nov 11th 2007 at 11:03AM

There have always been lots of things to consider when making traveling plans, and these days there's at least one more thing to add to the list: how "green" is the hotel you plan to stay in?

Thankfully, with more and more hotels going green in recent years it's getting easier to find somewhere to stay that's environmentally friendly. Some things, like encouraging guests to reuse towels to installing low-flow shower heads, are getting to be fairly standard efforts. But others are getting a little more creative with things like:

Putting designer recycle bins in individuals rooms
Switching to all organic menus
Offering incentives to employees who carpool to work
Routing undrinkable water to irrigate nearby golf courses
Offering parking incentives to guests who drive hybrid vehicles
Switching to non-toxic and organic cleaning supplies
Donating unused amenity bottles to local charities
Sending half-used bars of soap to companies who use them to make cleaning products
Recycling used coffee grounds as golf course tee-off mounds.

Come across something particularly creative and green in a recent hotel stay? Share with us in the comments!

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