Recycling at Resorts

[VegasBella]

I stayed at Grand Pacific Palisades recently and they have two bins in the kitchen: one for trash and one for recycling. But when the housekeepers came by I noticed that they put the contents of both bins into the same larger trash can. It seems as though they're promoting the idea of recycling but don't actually practice it.

I stayed at San Clemente Inn and though they don't have recycling containers in the rooms they have clear recycling receptacles outside at the end of one hall. It seems they do recycle.

MarBrisa also had clear recycling receptacles in each hallway (but the openings were small).

I'm staying at Riviera Beach and Spa right now and the new Diamond literature in the rooms promotes recycling but when I talked to staff about where to bring my recyclables they said "we don't recycle but we should."

A friend of mine works at the Tropicana in Vegas and she said they have staff that goes through the trash and removes recyclables. So they don't encourage guests to sort it but they do it themselves.

Do your resorts recycle? What have you noticed at resorts related to recycling?

 

[puppymommo]

At the Wyndham resorts where I have stayed in the past year, they did have recycling bins for paper, plastic and cans. These were located on the ground floor near the elevator.

I don't know if all Wyndham resorts have this now, but I appreciate it.

 

[csxjohn]

I was just at Ocean Ridge and they wanted the welcome packet back to reuse and recycle but had no place for recyclale trash. They did tell us where we could go into town to recycle in that welcome packet.


Tropic Shores Resort provides recycle bins near the elevator on each of the floors with rooms on them.

 

[SueDonJ]

Most (if not all) Marriotts promote recycling with separate, different color, trash and recycle bags in the units. After being placed in the trash chutes the different color bags get separated in the collection area, and in that area there are also designated bins that owners/guests can access. Most US Marriott resorts don't have housekeeping services for owners/members using their owned intervals anyway, so the majority of the effort is with the owners/guests. We recycle at the resorts the same we do at home. From what I've seen many others support the effort as well. It probably helps that the Welcome packets promote it heavily and IME give explicit directions.

 

[Fern Modena]

All the MGM hotels also sort their recycling by hand. Part of it is that it is cost effective for them to do so because they discover so much hotel flatware in the trash, believe it or not. In the case of the MGM hotel chain, they also recycle food scraps, then shipping them off to RC Farms in North Las Vegas to be sorted further and then made into pig feed. The farmer goes through various sorts and cooking, and the pigs thrive on it. He then sells some of the pigs back to MGM It was on an Anthony Bourdain FoodTV program. You can see a story (with pictures, an easy read) here.

Fern

A friend of mine works at the Tropicana in Vegas and she said they have staff that goes through the trash and removes recyclables. So they don't encourage guests to sort it but they do it themselves.

Do your resorts recycle? What have you noticed at resorts related to recycling?

 

[dioxide45]

I have long wondered how much of our recycling actually gets recycled vs how much goes in the trash. I watched a special a while back where someone followed recycling at a plant in San Francisco. The show referenced "the biggest scam in America" in that they thought what we thought we were recycling was really just getting tossed in to landfills.To the hosts and my surprise they determined that only about 10% of what went in to the recycle bin had to be thrown in the trash. These were items that were put in the recycle bin out of ignorance or laziness.

 

[mdurette]

We visit a lot of Orlando Marriotts. They always have a tiny (bathroom size) trash bucket in the room for recyclables and a medium size one for trash. I applaud the effort - but they really do need a bigger recyclable bucket. Just a couple juice bottles fill it up. But, we manage. The "trash" room has the shoot for trash and the large containers for recyclables.

BUT...noticed a few months ago at Grand Vista the trash room was reversed. The containers were for trash and the shoot for recyclables. I can only assume more recycling going on.....

I'm not a recycle junkie - but I can tell you after doing it for so long at home when we were at a TS in New Hampshire last week that had no recycling at all it was strange. I contemplated rinsing most of it out, putting in a bag and throwing in the back of the truck to take home. I didn't, because I knew my DH would be rolling his eyes like I was crazy.

 

[Icc5]

Mountains/islands

Years ago it used to drive us nuts that the different Island and Mountain Resorts we went to didn't recycle. We do composting at home and recycle whenever we can.
We then went to a Resort on Vancouver Island and the developer of the Resort not only had a recycle program but had set up a compost holding in front of every two units which were monatured and picked up from every few days and he used to compost and train people how to compost and use the compost. He also had a nursery on site.
Amazingly after that we started to find recycling programs almost everywhere. Garbage companies in most areas also started some form of composting programs. Too bad it took so many years to try and fix our mistakes.
Bart