The Red Carnation Hotel Collection, a long-standing supporter of the removal of single use plastics across all their 17 (soon to be 20) luxury hotels, has banned single use plastic water bottles in addition to more than 20 everyday plastic convenience items from all properties for some time now. Red Carnation Hotels , The Living Wall at The Rubens at the Palace, London pictured, is a sibling of the Travel Corporation’s family of brands and works in proud partnership with its TreadRight Foundation to #MakeTravelMatter. TTC remains dedicated to removing as many unnecessary single use plastics from its worldwide supply chains on our thousands of immersive trips and experiences delivered in over 70 countries around the world, every day.

Red Carnation Hotels continue to reduce most unnecessary single-use plastics within their properties, and remains committed and dedicated to achieving these important steps by December 2022. Red Carnation has established Green Teams at all our properties to put these steps in motion to achieve our three-year plastic elimination goal. “We’ve made plenty of progress so far, switching our takeaway coffee cups and lids to compostable paper and corn starch versions and eliminating the use of plastic sanitation bags for TV remote controls, opting for recyclable paper instead.”

Other sustainable efforts being undertaken by The Red Carnation Hotel Collection properties include beach cleanups and water conservation. At The Twelve Apostles Hotel & Spa, water saving initiatives in Cape Town are incredibly important. Over 40 initiatives have been implemented-such as the replacement of bath plugs with two-minute shower timers in guest rooms, reusable ice cubes, water-less urinals, systems to collect and reuse otherwise wasted water and rain water and more. The hotel has set up a water team, which form part of their Green Team, and a Water Warrior to lead the process in the hotel. With the above initiatives in place, the hotel has reduced water consumption by 42% from January 2016 to 2017.

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