The next time you check into a hotel, you may not be coming home stocked up with tiny shampoo and lotion bottles.
Marriott International, one of the world’s largest hotel chains, announced plans to eliminate single-use bottles of shampoo and other liquids from most of its hotels worldwide by December 2020. The Bethesda, Md.-based hotel giant says hotel guests will instead get such bathroom necessities from large, pump-topped bottles that, in most cases, are fastened to bathroom walls.
Intercontinental Hotel Group made a similar pledge in July, promising to switch out the tiny bottles for larger pump-topped bottles in all of the company’s more than 5,600 hotels worldwide by 2021last year to replace the tiny toiletry bottles for larger dispensers primarily in hotels in North America, saying the tiny bottles are rarely recycled and often end up in landfills.
Once the switch is completed, Marriott estimates it will eliminate the disposal of about 500 million tiny plastic bottles into landfills. The announcement to eliminate the tiny, single-use bottle comes more than a year after the company began phasing out disposable plastic straws and drink stirrers by offering them only when requested by customers. The hotel company says the policy change has so far diverted more than 1 billion plastic straws from landfills.
Canada Latest News, Canada Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Guess Sees Little Effect From Potential China Tariffs IncreaseGuess shares rose sharply in after-hours trading after the fashion retailer raised its profit forecast for its fiscal year and said it expects minimal effects from further tariffs between the U.S. and China.
Read more »
Asia stocks set to open little changed as investors watch US Treasury yieldsStocks in Asia were poised to open little changed on Thursday as investors continue to watch the yield curve in U.S. Treasurys, which inverted further overnight.
Read more »
Hong Kong’s pain offers Singapore a little gainAnti-government protests have fed demand for visas and safe-haven pads abroad. Singapore has warned wealth managers not to take advantage. Officials fear instability, and angering Beijing, would overwhelm any benefit. The Lion City can offer softer lessons instead.
Read more »
Jeffrey Epstein’s Little-Known Lawyer Lands in SpotlightJeffrey Epstein’s longtime lawyer has operated behind the scenes for decades, but now finds himself in the spotlight over the scandal surrounding the disgraced financier
Read more »
José Andrés Admits to Underpaying Staffers at Mercado Little SpainChef José Andrés has landed in hot water for underpaying staffers at his critically-acclaimed Hudson Yards venture Mercado Little Spain
Read more »
Teen dresses up in costumes to meet little brother at school bus stopKnown as the “Bus Stop Brother,” 17-year-old Noah Tingle has made a name for himself online with videos of him greeting his 12-year-old brother from school every day in a new costume.
Read more »