 Continuous Improvement Items:
- The hotel has selected televisions that are more energy efficient when purchasing new televisions. In addition, old televisions were sold to staff at a lower price to reduce waste generation;
- The hotel has reduced unnecessary food decoration to reduce food waste in the restaurant;
- The hotelˇs restaurant has used reusable containers for take-away to reduce disposable waste generation;
- The hotel has implemented electronic documentation to reduce paper consumption;
- The hotel has actively participated in different environmental programmes, such as ¨Old Clothes Recycling Campaign〃 etc;
- The hotel will install energy-saving parts in elevators in order to reduce electricity consumption;
- The hotel will continue to purchase televisions that are more energy efficient;
- The hotel will replace the transformers in lightings to enhance energy efficiency.
Some of the environmental measures accomplished:
- Established an Environmental Task Force composed of different department representatives to steer and facilitate the environmental programme implementation.
- Installed at least 60% energy-saving type lighting facilities.
- Adopted variable voltage variable frequency (VVVF) drive in lift drive system.
- Installed a waste heat recovery system to recover waste heat from the centre air-conditioning system.
- Achieved a 8% and 6% reduction in energy consumption and water reduction respectively, as compared with the same period of time in previous year.
- Reused chopstick covers and food containers.
- Installed self-closing taps or taps with a sensor control in staff changing room.
- Used detergent without phosphates for dishwashing purpose.
- Collected copiers for recycling.
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