Sustainable development is becoming essential in all sectors of activity and compost offers a practical and ecological sustainability solution for resorts & hotels to manage their waste and also reduce their environmental impact.
These structures generate a large amount of organic waste every day: food waste, garden waste and even biodegradable packaging. Instead of sending this waste to landfills, where it contributes to greenhouse gas emissions, adopting composting processes converts this waste into nutrient-rich soil. This land can be used for landscaping or community gardens. A greener hotel or a greener resort is also a business asset.
According to Booking.com’s Sustainable Travel Report 2024, 93% of tourists are environmentally conscious and want to ensure that trips they’re taking are more mindful! Adoption to composting can actually exploit this travel insight and save a lot of costs for the hotels and resorts and also attract a lot of tourists. Some of the quick business advantages of composting in Hotels and Resorts can be enumerated as below:
Financial advantage:
- Save on the waste handling cost
- Considerably reduce their spending of large amounts of money on fertilizers on their gardens
Brand advantage: An environmentally friendly resort has a competitive advantage when it comes to attracting tourists
Cost of new business acquisition becomes lower: With tourists increasingly becoming environmentally conscious, brand loyalty increases. Globally, brand loyalty reduces cost of business by 30%!!
The typical kitchen waste of any large Kitchen can range from 25 Kg per day to 100 Kg per day depending on the size of the hotel or the resort. In any year this waste alone can reach a staggering 36 Tons of waste which by reaching the landfills can result in more than 25 Tons of CO2. To offset this amount of CO2, the resort has to grow 1250 trees in a year! Or in other words, this amount of CO2 emissions is equivalent to a petrol car running for more than 75000 Kilometers – that’s like the emissions of a car driving around India over 12 times!!
Hence, converting this kitchen waste into compost makes great economic and social sense. RUR GREENLIFE has actually launched large size community Aerobic Tumbler Bio Composters precisely targeted at these large kitchens. These Composters efficiently process significant volumes of waste, without using any power or electricity. It smoothly balances the elements like air, temperature and moisture and does the composting of the waste in an efficient way.
Adopting of composting also drives the hotels and resorts to segregate waste at the source and thus helps in targeted solid waste management in the local community. RUR GREENLIFE as part of its composting solutions also offers the staff of the hotels and resorts a comprehensive education and training in waste management. Many resorts that have already installed RUR Aerobic Tumbler composters even give away small packets of compost to their guests to reinforce their shared values in sustainability and build brand loyalty!