The Fern Residency, Mumbai Strives to Become Zero Carbon Footprint Hotel

One of the foremost measures adopted by the hotel is, setting up a bottling plant. The hotel has completely eliminated the use of packaged water and is providing water in glass bottles in the rooms as well as the restaurant.

THE FERN Residency, Mumbai part of The Fern Hotels and Resorts – India’s leading environmentally sensitive and eco-friendly hotel chain – is striving to reduce its carbon footprint and has further adopted a number of environment-friendly practices to ensure that it reaches its goal of becoming a ‘zero carbon footprint hotel', said Raj Shetty, General Manager of the hotel.

One of the foremost measures adopted by the hotel is, setting up a bottling plant. The hotel has completely eliminated the use of packaged water and is providing water in glass bottles in the rooms as well as the restaurant. Water is purified from the ionizing machine set up in the plant.

The hotel has identified a few core issues and has been endeavouring to achieve success in these core areas of environmental sustainability. The various measures taken up by the hotel includes – banning the use of disposable or single-use plastics like plastic water bottles, straws; replacing plastic bags with paper bags and plastic cutlery with wooden cutlery, for takeaway; changing biodegradable plastic containers with more eco-friendly options like containers made of cornstarch or sugarcane; replacing plastics straws and stirrers with steel and paper straws and wooden stirrers; replacing garbage bags with biodegradable garbage bags; utilising old newspapers to make paper bags, etc.

The hotel has further inculcated environment-friendly ethos among its employees to spread the message to the guests as well as society at large, the GM added.


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