The fight to cut down on plastic waste may mean the end for miniature bottles of shampoo and other toiletries that hotel guests love to stuff into their luggage.
The owner of Holiday Inn and InterContinental Hotels said Tuesday that its nearly 843,000 guest rooms are switching to bulk-size bathroom amenities as part of an effort to cut waste. The transition is due to be completed in 2021.
“Switching to larger-size amenities across more than 5,600 hotels around the world is a big step in the right direction and will allow us to significantly reduce our waste footprint and environmental impact as we make the change,” said InterContinental Hotels Group Chief Excutive Keith Barr. IHG, which uses an average of 200 million bathroom miniatures every year, said customers expect it to act responsibly.And there is little doubt that public awareness of the problem of plastic waste has been swelling.
Global plastic production increased to 419 million tons in 2015 from a little over 2 million tons in 1950, according to research by Roland Geyer, a professor of industrial ecology at UC Santa Barbara, together with Jenna Jambeck of the University of Georgia and Kara Lavender Law of the Sea Education Assn. in Woods Hole, Mass.
About 60% of the 9 billion tons of plastic produced throughout history has ended up as waste, with more than three-fourths of that going into landfills or the environment, the authors estimated in a 2017 article. In 2010 alone, between 4.4 million and 13.2 million tons of plastic entered the marine environment.
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