Irish Hotels closing the Environmental Performance Gap on International Hotels
Monday, 31 Aug, 2009
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The Green Hospitality Award, Ireland’s leading hospitality environmental award programme, today published data from their 2007 benchmark database that shows that Irish Hotels participating in this innovative programme have not alone significantly reduced their consumption of energy, water and production of landfill waste but have also made substantial financial savings as well.
2007 benchmark figures suggest that GHA members have improved their environmental performance for energy and water management by approximately 20% and have reduced their waste to landfill by 40% compared to 2004. This has resulted in significant savings for GHA members with an estimated 3 million Euro saving per annum for around100 hotels.
GHA hotels are clearly moving towards international benchmarks which are better than the Irish benchmarks. For example the 2004 benchmark for waste to landfill for Irish Hotels was 3.5kg per sleeper night. In 2007 the average figure was reduced to 2.1kg per sleeper night thereby edging closer to the 1.5kg per sleeper night International benchmark. The challenge now is for GHA hotels to continue to increase efficiency in order to meet and/or exceed the international averages.
Environmental benchmark data obtained from members during 2007allowed the GHA to update the environmental benchmark for Irish hotels, reflecting average environmental performance in 2007. The majority of the hotels which were benchmarked have been involved in the GHA programme for a year or more.
The 2007 environmental benchmark is much improved than that obtained for Irish hotels during the EPA’s Cleaner Greener Production Programme (CGPP) Greening Irish Hotels Programme in 2004. (Hotels were benchmarked in 2004 prior to their involvement in the CGPP programme).
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