How can your city hotel cut waste and reduce water and energy consumption? The City of Melbourne’s Savings in the City pilot program resulted in significant savings for the 30 hotels and serviced apartments, large and small, that participated.
- Waste figures show that hotels can save on average 4.8 litres per guest per night, or 2,410 tonnes annually – equivalent to 401 less garbage trucks dumping to landfill. The total saving for two years, across the 30 hotels, has been 628 truckloads of waste.
- Your hotel could see an average reduction in water use of 15.3 litres per guest per night, equivalent to 25.4 Olympic swimming pools. Over two years, hotels have saved the equivalent of 45 Olympic swimming pools.
- Total energy saved by the 30 hotels over the pilot program equated to 24,769 tonnes of greenhouse gas or 2,890 households – the population of East Melbourne.
Green your hotel today
Get started with a simple fact sheet:
Green Hotels: water, energy and waste fact sheet (PDF, 42kb)
Green Hotels: water, energy and waste fact sheet (Text only, 73kb)
Waste Wise Hotels toolkit
Developed by Sustainability Victoria, this toolkit is designed to help you initiate practical programs for reducing waste and associated costs. It is divided into sections to allow you to implement waste wise initiatives in your own way. It includes:
- the benefits of being waste wise
- information on where waste is produced in hotels and the key areas for savings
- templates to assist with taking action to reduce, reuse and recycle waste
- information sheets and tips for staff training
- case studies and further resources.
Download the Waste Wise Hotels Toolkit (PDF, 1.2Mb)
Visit Sustainability Victoria's Waste Wise Hotels Toolkit for more information and ideas.
Water Wise Hotels Toolkit
You can improve the economic, social and environmental sustainability of your hotel with this toolkit. It shows you how to:
- understand the current level of water use and where savings can be found
- develop an environmental management approach to deal with water consumption
- improve your business efficiency through better resource management methods and become globally recognised for it.
Water Wise Toolkit (PDF, 1.6Mb)
Water Wise Toolkit (Text only, 84kb)
Energy Wise Hotels Toolkit
This toolkit will help you understand where energy is used in your hotel and where the opportunities are for making savings. The toolkit also provides case studies and details about energy-saving technology.
Energy Wise Hotels Toolkit (PDF, 1Mb)
Energy Wise Hotels Toolkit (Text only, 81kb)
Program partners
The City of Melbourne’s Savings in the City pilot program was produced with the following partners:
- Sustainability Victoria
- Smart Water Fund
- EC3 Global
- Australian Hotels Association (AHA)
- Hotel Motel and Accommodation Association of Australia (HMAA)
- City West Water
- Tourism Victoria