Chennai: In a bid to promote sustainability, ITC Grand Chola that has LEED platinum rating, updated its sustainability initiatives to provide luxury to their guests in hand with salubrious planet measures with an aim to keep pace with their credo of ‘responsible luxury’ towards planet-positive experience.
The hotel has been taking determined efforts to bring single-use plastic to cessation within December this year. As a rudimentary effort, the hotel has substituted plastic products like stirrers and bottles with degradable products like glass and wood, said a press release. The efforts towards providing environment-friendly experience is augmented with their in house bottling unit for drinking water with ‘Sunya Aqua zero mile water and execution of radiation harmoniser for healthy spaces, the release added.
The sustainable initiatives further include productive use of recycling water with a change in their laundry system, meeting the whole of electrical energy demand through renewable means. The ITC Hotel chain has adapted eco-friendly measures in the fields of areas energy, water efficiency and indoor environment, added the release.