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Eco-Friendly Suppliers for the Hospitality Industry
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Products and Services
Ecolab
Ecolab is the world's leading provider of cleaning, food safety, and health protection products and services for the hospitality, foodservice, healthcare, and industrial markets. With more than 4,000 patents worldwide and direct operations in nearly 70 country, Ecolab blends eco-friendly practices with cutting edge technology to revolutionize your operations, no matter where the in the world you hold your business. To learn more, click here.
Grainger
Grainger carries facility maintenance and cleaning products that help reduce energy usage, conserve water, improve indoor air quality, and reduce waste. From light bulbs to power monitoring test equipment, to cleaning chemicals and microfiber they can help you operate in more sustainable ways to help save you time and money in the process. Green products include those certified by ENERGY STAR®, Green Seal™, Green Guard®, EPA’s WaterSense® & NEMA Premium®. They also carry products that can help your facilities’ recycling initiatives. Visit a local branch or online www.grainger.com/green for more details.
HD Supply
HD Supply delivers maintenance and housekeeping products to the hospitality industry with a wealth of everyday products, and is committed to doing business in a socially responsible manner. Whether you need light bulbs, showerheads, or towels, their new ideallygreen™ icon makes it easy to identify environmentally preferable products both in catalogs and at hdsupplysolutions.com. Products marked with the ideallygreen icon can increase energy efficiency, help reduce water consumption, create a healthier indoor environment, facilitate waste reduction, and prevent hazardous materials from entering the environment. Visit www.ideallygreen.com for more details.
INNCOM
INNCOM develops energy management systems (EMS) for energy savings and increased guest comfort. Systems range from low-cost standalone products, including the ENERGY STAR-qualified e4 Smart Digital Thermostat, to advanced, centrally-controlled systems. INNCOM also offers the award-winning ecoMODE option. With ecoMODE, guests simply press the Green Button on the e4 Smart Digital Thermostat or other INNCOM Integrated Room Automation System (IRAS) device to instantly trigger an energy-conservation mode and opt into the hotel’s sustainability program. INNCOM’s commitment to the environment extends beyond energy savings. All products are manufactured RoHS compliant and INNCOM’s manufacturing partners are ISO 14001:2004 Environmental Management Systems certified.
Pineapple Hospitality
Pineapple Hospitality offers green products, marketing programs and services for the lodging industry. Product categories include: amenities, energy efficiency projects, water conservation, and waste reduction/recycling products. Marketing includes: EcoRooms & EcoSuites (www.EcoRooms.com) and FreshStay (www.FreshStay.com). Services include Custom Linen and Towel Re-use (www.CustomLinenReuse.com).
Purely Organic Lawncare
Purely Organic Lawncare creates all natural organic products for lawns, trees and shrubs, from soil amendments and fertilizers, to insect and disease management. With nothing harmful added, they provide safe, environmentally-friendly choices appropriate for hotels, resorts, and golf courses. Products are pathogen-free and are safe around children, pets, and wildlife. Bare feet too! They do soil testing and tailor programs designed to fit within budgets, and take climate and location into consideration. Consulting services, equipment purchases, and training for your operations team is available. Call Annie Keller at 617-894-1417 for more information.
The Refinishing Touch
The Refinishing Touch® is a world leader in providing on-site environmentally safe, furniture refinishing, reupholstery and armoire modification. It enables its 20,000 customers across the following markets; hospitality, academia and government to save up to 80% of their budgets and maintain environmental sustainability. Services comprise furniture refinishing, reupholstery, armoire modification and re-engineering, granite and fabric selection through the Touch Textiles division. The company operates with processes that are odorless, non-toxic, non-flammable, and environmentally-safe, enabling immediate room re-occupancy. For more information, contact us at 800-523-9448 or sales@therefinishingtouch.com.
Save Your World
Save Your World® offers a hotel/spa amenity line of products designed to provide the hotel/spa industry all-natural personal care products made with organic aloe vera and organic yerba maté. Save Your World is established in conservation arenas and all-natural personal care products by partnering with Conservation International and national retailers such as Whole Foods Market and Vitamin Shoppe. With your partnership, the project will help protect 200,000 acres of both rainforest and aquatic habitat along the Essequibo River in Guyana. Click here to learn more about Save Your World’s environmental mission, eco-friendly packaging, and all-natural ingredients.
Southern Aluminum
Southern Aluminum created the ‘lightweight trend’ for folding banquet and training tables over 30 years ago. Because of the versatility of aluminum, their products offer weight efficiency, durability, and sustainability. Tables contain recycled aluminum and are completely recyclable when you determine the end of their lifecycle. In 2006, Southern Aluminum received the Evergreen Award in the Furniture category by the GSA National Furniture Center (NFC). This program recognizes efforts in recycling, affirmative procurement and waste reduction. Visit www.hospitalitytable.com to learn more.
Programs
Burton Energy Group
Excluding labor, energy is typically the highest cost that hoteliers face. However, more efficient purchasing, process management, equipment and systems can be used to lower energy usage throughout a property. If you represent more than 2,000 rooms, across one or more properties, click here to find out how Burton Energy Group can drastically reduce your energy costs. AH&LA corporate members save 20%, and 100% of Burton Energy Group's clients have realized a positive ROI.
Green Globe Benchmarking and Certification
Green Globe is the premier international benchmarking and certification program for the hospitality industry based on the Agenda 21 principles of Sustainable Development. Green Globe Benchmarking and Certification provides a framework for managing sustainability programs and a measurement tool that enables performance monitoring and improvement.
Maintenance USA
Maintenance USA provides the hospitality industry a cost savings approach to purchasing maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) products. In addition, they can help you develop and maintain a plan to “green” your property at the pace that is right for you. EcoSourceSM, Maintenance USA's newly developed green purchasing program, consists of more than 800 green products that collectively span each of the United States Green Building Council’s MRO related categories for sustainable buildings: Energy and Atmosphere, Water Conservation, Indoor Environmental Quality, and Materials Selection. To learn more about EcoSource call 877-ECO-SRCE, or visit www.e-musa.com to view the EcoSource catalog.
Project Planet
Project Planet is the hospitality industry's leader in environmental linens and towels re-use programs. This program revolves around asking guests to use their bed linens and towels more than once. When guests participate (usually between 68-72% do), hotels save money in reduced water, energy, labor, detergent, and sheet/towel replacement costs. Project Planet assists in this effort by providing interested properties with the in-room materials to support this effort. Click here to learn more. To access their Environmental Self-Audit Checklist, click here.
Uniguest
Uniguest is now an official authorized EPEAT reseller. EPEAT is an organization that operates a certification program to ensure electronic products meet specific environmental or green standards. With their new green computer packages they can help guide property managers to choose green computer solutions for their lobbies and guest rooms helping hotels support their environmental initiatives.
American Hotel & Lodging Association, 2009
Britt Hosmer, LEED AP
britt@rockenvironmental.com
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