Shanghai hotels ordered to stop providing disposable toiletries
More than 80 hotels across Shanghai have been issued with penalty notices for providing unrequested disposable items to hotel guests.
It comes after new recycling and garbage sorting rules were introduced in the city to cut unnecessary waste.
It included violations at five luxury hotels – The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Shanghai Pudong, The Longemont Shanghai, JW Marriott Hotel Shanghai at Tomorrow Square, Regal International East Asia Hotel and Wyndham Grand Plaza Royale Oriental Shanghai, according to the Shanghai Administration of Culture and Tourism.
All hotels were asked to remedy their practices or they will be fined 500 yuan, and further violations could result in stiffer penalties of 5,000 yuan.
The items are not banned from hotels but should only be supplied when guests specifically request them.
Items given to guests without being requested included toothbrushes, combs, sponges and razors.
More than 1,000 hotels have been inspected since the new rule took effect on July 1.
The administration said all 8,000 hotels in the city will be randomly inspected over the coming weeks.
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