Repak Recycling Best Practice Award 2009
For the Clarion Hotel Cork
At the annual Repak Recycling Awards 2009 held in Croke Park Dublin recently, The Clarion Hotel Cork was the winner in the category of Repak Best Practice Award 2009 – Hospitality Sector.
On its way to securing this award the Clarion Hotel was able to demonstrate its use of innovative techniques to garner staff support and enthusiasm for green initiatives. By doing so, the hotel has registered an impressive increase in the amount of packaging which has been either eliminated or more effectively streamed to recycling. Some of the initiatives the hotel has in place include, waste segregation bins, decanting of food into reusable crates/boxes, less packaging used for breakfast, small reusable decanters for small items like sugar, butter, salt and peppers. As well as an on site dedicated waste handling room. As a result the hotel has grown its waste recycling rates three fold to 30% up from 12% last year.
The Hotels General Manager Charlie Sheil who received the award on behalf of the hotel commented that "our Green Team which consists of representatives from each of the departments led by Paul Ryan our Maintenance Manager is fully committed to implementing the hotels Environmental and Recycling Policy. This Policy is reviewed on an annual basis with targets being monitored each week. Our Environmental & Recycling Policy had made significant savings to our business while complying with the best standards in Industry at this time."
This is the third award that the hotel has secured this year, earlier this year hotel received the 2009 Optimus EFQM - Award of Excellence from Failte Ireland and was the 2009 Quarter 2 Winner of the Cork Business Association Cork Business of the Year Award
Pictured above is Charlie Sheil, General Manager of the Clarion Hotel Cork receiving the 2009 Repak Recycling Best Practice Award for the Hospitality Sector from Mr John Gormley, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. Also pictured are Michael Horgan of Rehab Recycling and holding the certificate Dr. Andrew Hetherington, CEO of Repak
