The linear economy or “take-make-use-waste” model is being exposed for its severe negative consequences environmentally.Â
Society is realising that our systems are no longer serving us. On our current trajectory worldwide, waste generation will have increased by 70% by 2050 – that’s 3.4 billion metric tons! (Global waste generation - statistics & facts | Statista).Â
The message of reduce, reuse, repair, repurpose and then recycle is slow to take real effect in counteracting this waste problem. In the Hospitality industry we need to rethink: not what we offer but how we offer it –and the consequential waste from our decisions. Â
One missed opportunity is when renovations are taking place at a Hospitality property. Furniture, which is still perfectly useable is being thrown in the skip in large quantities. There is an alternative. Fifty Shades Greener has collaborated with Otolo, a global online hospitality forum, for an initiative named “The Hotel Yard”. Hospital...
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