Love those dainty little bottles of shampoo, conditioner and hand lotion in hotel bathrooms? I do. I take them home, use them for guests or donate them to the local homeless shelter. Soon people won’t be able to take these tiny amenities home - states, localities and some hotel chains are scrapping them. Those little bottles of shampoo, conditioner and body wash in hotels - icons of travel - are disappearing, replaced by bulk dispensers mounted on shower walls. And some travelers are in a lather.
Hotels say bulk dispensers cost less and are better for the environment. Billions of half-full bottles get thrown away every year. Think of it as roughly 1,000 bottles for every hotel room, multiplied by more than 5 million hotel rooms in the U.S. That’s a lot of single use plastic right there. Environmentally this makes sense. In the long run it will save money for hotels. Even though this is a sensible measure to take, a fun little souvenir will soon go down the drain.
The little bottles are going the way of matchbooks.
ReplyDeleteI've noticed this recently too. I guess it makes sense.
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