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Reducing plastic waste

There exist a wide range of options and alternatives to reduce your single-use plastic waste. Not all of them are as green as they seem.
On the following pages you’ll find a range of alternatives to single-use plastic items commonly used in tourism businesses as well as tips for a successful implementation.

General tips on plastic waste reduction

Reducing plastic in your company will not be a short journey, but it will be worth it. The following tips will support you on this journey.

Tips: PROCESS-OVER-PRODUCT approach

The consequences of the use of single-use plastic products show that those products have more negative than positive impacts than reusable ones. That’s why improving processes is better than buying (single-use) products.

How to maintain hygiene and reduce single-use

Using single-use (plastic) products is not necessarily responsible for improved hygiene, but for environmental pollution. Our tips can help regarding this issue.

Facts single-use plastic during pandemic

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of single-use plastic products has increased and the resulting waste is not properly disposed or recycled to a large extent.

Tools: Sustainability Rating Charts Booklet

Have a look at our Sustainability Rating Charts that will help businesses to make more informed purchasing decisions when it comes to sourcing alternative products.

Tools: Decision Trees

Have a look at our Decision Trees that have been designed to to guide readers through different decision-making scenarios that follow the waste reduction hierarchy.

Tools: Standard Operating Procedures

Have a look at our Standard Operating Procedures that help businesses to minimise unnecessary plastic waste.

Develop an action plan

The next step after setting SMART targets to reduce plastic waste, an action plan should be created. The measures included here should focus both on short and long run.

Tips: Set targets

After conducting your plastic waste measurement, you should reflect about the next steps and set targets which are SMART and help you to reduce plastic waste.

Practical measures to reduce single-use plastic

Companies are different from each other so they have to find their own ways to reduce their plastic waste. The following practical measures can help to start the journey and to evolve to further ones.

Tips: TOP 5 single-use plastic items

Not all alternatives of single-use plastic products are as sustainable as they seem to be. In the following, alternatives to the most common plastic products and their impact on the environment are presented.

Tips: Single-use plastic items in guest rooms

Not all alternatives of single-use plastic products in guest rooms are as sustainable as they seem to be. In the following, alternatives to the most common plastic products and their impact on the environment are presented.