Human beings consume natural resources at a pace faster than the Earth’s capacity to renew them, with a deficit of 20%
We will not invoke the environment to remove quality from our product. We only intend to contribute to a generation of responsible consumers, more sensitive and demanding regarding environmental sustainability.
Our customer’s satisfaction is one of our main goals. If we combine this with measures that contribute to a better, more efficient and more sustainable world, we will be making a small contribution to the future of our children and grandchildren. Contributing to the future of the community and its ecosystems.
Our contribution
In order to be more environmentally efficient, we have adopted several measures that, in addition to investments, constitute changes in attitudes by raising the awareness of our team, partners and guests.
What we do:
- All houses in the rooms and public areas are equipped with ecological flushing in the cisterns (AS1829 coming soon)
- The change of towels in the bathrooms of the rooms is done upon request of the clients (if the client hangs the towel it means that it is in conditions for more uses)
- Washing machines and dishwashers have dispensers in order to save water
- We sensitized our employees to only use washing machines with maximum load
- The washbasin faucets have flow reducers
- Water saving shower heads
- We monitor consumption on a daily basis in order to detect any losses as early as possible
- We change towels and sheets according to the minimum legally required, that is, every 3 days or at the request of guests
- We have faucets with timers in public toilets
How can you contribute:
- Whenever you use the bathroom, evaluate the need to completely flush the toilet
- Do not dispose of non-physiological waste in the toilet (minimizes flushing of toilets and reduces the possibility of clogging the sewer system)
- If you consider your towel clean, don’t put it on the floorIf you place it on the ground, it indicates that you want to replace it
- Brush your teeth with the faucet turned off
- Whenever possible, replace the immersion bath with a quick shower, ideally turning off the tap while soaping
- If you find a leak or leaky faucet, please inform the receptionist
What we do:
- Our mini bar is turned off, being only connected and loaded upon customer request
- We have the partial power cut system in the rooms. There is no electricity in the room whenever the key is not in the slot next to the door
- Almost all of our units are equipped with the Led lighting system Energy saving lamps
- In periods of low occupancy, we try to group, as much as possible, customer reservations on the same floor, avoiding unnecessary lighting
We make our team aware of the use of washing machines with maximum load - Our computers are configured to turn off monitors automatically
- Preventive maintenance of equipment, in particular air conditioning filters and motors for chambers and refrigerated cabinets
- Bathrooms and public stairs equipped with motion sensors (only in some hotels)
- We installed windows with thermal and acoustic insulation of the windows and tightness of the frames
- We favor the acquisition of class A or higher electrical equipment
- Automatic sensors in the lighting system of public areas through KNX
- Periodic energy audit carried out by accredited technicians
- Thermal solar panels for water heating
- Photovoltaic solar panels for energy production
- We make our employees aware of the importance that unnecessary equipment is turned off
- Acquisition of electricity from renewable sources/ adherence to green electricity
How can you contribute:
- Do not leave equipment turned on unnecessarily
- Do not leave the cards (key) in the power switches of the occupied rooms (minimizes risks and energy)
- Don’t turn on lights you don’t need
- Close the bedroom window whenever the air conditioning is on
In summer, close the blackout whenever you leave the room to reduce the entry of sunlight leading to an increase in the interior temperature; in winter keep it open to increase sunlight - When leaving the room, remove the card from the lighting system at the entrance to the room in order to turn off the air conditioning
- Whenever you consider your towels clean and ready for reuse, do not place them on the floor (minimizes the use of washing machines)
- If you find any faulty equipment or other anomaly, please inform the receptionist
- Whenever possible, try to use the stairs
What we do:
- We control the temperature of our boilers in order to minimize gas consumption, conditioning the temperature to occupancy
How you can contribute:
- Take quick showers, with warm water and low pressure
What we do:
- Our dishwashers and clothes washing machines are equipped with specific dispensers and programs for each type of wash, so as not to waste water and detergents
- We purchase 5 or 25 L drums of detergent
- Stained clothes are treated before washing in order to minimize the consumption of bleach
- Use of biodegradable detergents (soon)
How you can contribute:
- Do not touch cutlery that you do not intend to use
- Do not put clothes that are not dirty in the wash
What we do:
- We promote the selective separation of waste by placing it in the respective ecopoints (yellow, green and blue)
- We reuse the back of the paper sheets to reprint internal documents and to make paper pads
- End-of-life equipment, toners, burnt out lamps are returned to accredited suppliers
- Stacks are deposited in the stack
- Water from the food production sector is previously treated through a grease retention box, which undergoes periodic maintenance
- Fats from food production are delivered to accredited entities
- Used cooking oils are delivered to a duly accredited supplier
- We promote the recycling of cork stoppers
- We encourage you not to print sent and received emails
- Our computers are configured to reduce the amount of ink in prints
- We digitized part of our internal processes to reduce paper consumption, electricity
- We provide rechargeable products in the rooms (shampoo, gel, etc.)
- We provide guests in public areas with containers for selective collection (glass, paper, packaging and undifferentiated or bio-waste)
How can you contribute:
- Try not to produce garbage
- Use the ecopoints located in public areas
- Put the garbage in the bucket and not in the toilet
- Do not use toilet paper or towels to clean your shoes (for this purpose you will find a shoe cleaning cloth in your room)
- If you have discharged batteries, do not put them in the trash, but on top of the desk (the employee will take care of putting them in the battery)
- If you do not need our amenities, do not open the packages
- In the rooms, collaborate in separating waste as follows: 1. Undifferentiated items placed in the bathroom 2. Packaging and glass in the room bin 3. Paper on the desk
Because we only have one life, one community and one planet
Did you know that...
Is it enough to recycle another ton of glass to obtain a ton of glass, saving 400kg of sand and 2% of energy?
Can frying oil be used to make soap or fuel in diesel engines or boilers?
Recycling one ton of recycled paper prevents the felling of 20 trees and 50% less energy when compared to production from raw material, reducing air pollution by 95%
Recycling plastics saves non-renewable raw materials such as oil and prevents these products from going to landfills where they take hundreds of years to degrade.
Metal cans are 100% recyclable. Recycling an aluminum can saves enough energy to run a television for 3 hours
A toilet uses between 10 and 15 liters of water each time it is used. If you do a half flush, you will only use 3 liters.
The recycling of cork stoppers is used for new materials such as flooring, insulation material, decoration, clothing…
A pile left in the soil contaminates it more than 50 years
A poorly sealed faucet can represent a loss of 25 liters per day
Brushing your teeth under running water for 5 minutes uses about 45 liters of water
A 15-minute shower can use around 240 liters of water
The recycling of 1 ton of cardboard packaging for liquid food is equivalent to 3,703 packages and avoids the felling of around 15 adult trees
2 tons of liquid food cartons can be transformed into energy, equivalent to a ton of oil
According to the OECD, on average, a citizen consumes 800kg of food and drink and 120kg of packaging per year. As such, the importance of the packaging production and food and beverage production sectors is undeniable, since with population growth by 2025, an increase of 24% in calorie consumption is expected, 57% in food expenditure, 47% on packaging and 41% on “end-of-life” materials.