Is Your Lodging Green? Eco-Friendly Hotels

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The hotel industry is notorious for its high resource consumption. Today, many hotels and resorts are taking steps to lessen their environmental impact, while others are simply looking to reduce costs in the name of being “green.” Here’s how to tell the difference.

Conventional Hotel: Makes little or no effort to be sustainable short of government requirements.

Practices include:

• overuse of building materials
• wasteful food consumption and disposal

  • Published on Jan 1, 2005
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