- Reducing its fuel and water consumption by an additional 25 percent per available room over the next 10 years
- Installing solar power at up to 40 hotels by 2017
- Expanding existing "reduce, reuse, recycle" programs already in place in 90 percent of hotels to consistently include guest and meeting rooms, beginning with pilot hotels across all brands in Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Minneapolis and Washington, D.C.
- For more than 20 years, Marriott has been actively involved in energy conservation. Over the last decade, its hotels worldwide have replaced 450,000 light bulbs with fluorescent lighting, introduced linen reuse programs, and installed 400,000 low-flow showerheads and toilets.
- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded Marriott with its 2009 Sustained Excellence award and placed the ENERGY STAR label on more than 275 of its hotels (the most of any hotel company).
Each year, Marriott International and its owners spend about $10 billion annually buying products and services for its more than 3,200 hotels around the world. Recognizing this purchasing power, we've teamed up with our vendors to introduce these "greener" solutions at no extra cost:
- Greener key cards- Marriott has "unlocked" the door to a greener hotel stay by purchasing 24 million key cards made of 50 percent recycled material, saving 66 tons of plastic from being dumped in the landfill
- Eco-pillows- Guests can sleep easy knowing that their pillows are "fighting" to save the planet. Marriott will begin replacing the 100,000 synthetic pillows that it purchases with those filled with material made from recycled bottles
- Coreless toilet paper- By the end of Q1 2010, 500 hotels will offer "coreless" toilet paper, thereby eliminating 2 million cores a year, saving about 119 trees, nearly 3 million gallons of water, and 21 tons of packaging waste annually. The new tissue is made of 20-40 percent recycled fiber
- Earth-friendly towels- Thanks to a unique manufacturing process, the one million towels Marriott purchases in North America don't need to be pre-washed, saving six million gallons of water
- Recycled pens- The 47 million pens that Marriott purchases for its guest and meeting rooms in the U.S. and Canada are made of 75% recycled material
- Low VOC Paint- Marriott buys nearly one million gallons of paint that are low in Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC), which are safer and less polluting
- Biodegradable laundry bags- In the Middle East and Europe, more than 100 hotels purchase 43 tons of biodegradable plastic bags which disintegrate in two to five years, if not recycled and reused first
- Laundry detergent- At our hotels in Central Europe, we use a laundry detergent that cuts the amount of phosphates released into waste water by approximately 100,000 kg (220,000 lbs.)
- Marriott is expanding its portfolio of "green" hotels and buildings. Approximately 275 hotels have earned the prestigious ENERGY STAR label from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-the most of any hotel company
- Fifty Marriott-branded hotels in design, development or under construction are expected to achieve LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC)
- More than a dozen are expected to open in 2009 and 2010, joining The Inn & Conference Center by Marriott at the University of Maryland in College Park, which was the first LEED-certified hotel in the U.S.
- Marriott's global Headquarters in Bethesda, Md., is pursuing LEED-Existing Building status by the end of 2009
- Used cooking oil is now being converted into biodiesel fuel
- Marriott Headquarters has become the first site in the D.C. area to introduce Connect by Hertz. Four SmartWay cars are available for employees who use public transportation or carpool, but need to run an errand or attend an off-site meeting mid-day.
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