Hotels are joining the anti-plastic fight

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A single 200-room four-star hotel can use about 300,000 pieces of single-use plastic in a month if it's at full-capacity and doesn't invest in any eco-friendly alternatives, according to calculations done by sustainability and plastics expert Marissa Jablonski. The estimate includes 20,000 plastic water bottles, 49,765 plastic amenities ( 设施) and packages, and 216,693 pieces of plastic for food and beverage operations.

The figures show the depth of the challenge for the hospitality industry as it takes increasing efforts to go plastic-free. In August 2019, the Marriott group announced that it'll replace most of its hotels' single-use shampoo, conditioner and bath gel (沐浴露) bottles with larger ones by 2020, preventing about 500 million of the tiny plastic bottles polluting the environment yearly.

The Hilton chain has removed plastic straws from its hotel operations, switched from plastic key cards to digital ones at a number of hotels and removed plastic water bottles from meetings and events at hotels it manages in the Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa.Additionally,it's seeking alternatives to plastic wrap for its food and beverage operations.

While many major hotel chains have announced measures to reduce their plastic use, there's still something worrying about the industry, added other experts. Grace Kang, managing partner of Green-View, a Singapore-based sustainability consulting and research firm, noted that its latest Green Lodging Trends Report 2018 surveyed 4,544 hotels in 61 countries, and just 30.7% of them reported they'd removed or reduced to an absolute minimum their use of single-use plastic. Another 38% said they were making progress in doing so, but only 14.4% said they'd accomplish it within a year.

Removing plastic bottles, one of the biggest sources of plastic use in hotels, comes with its own challenges. At the Six Senses Singapore hotels, staff refill the glass bottles and clean up the mess when guests break them. “This is additional work for them that they aren't used to. We have to provide them training,” said Chew Siew Moon, Six Senses' sustainability manager.

阅读检测

1. What problem is suggested in the first paragraph?

A. Too much use of plastic in the world.

B. Popularity of the hotel-related pollution.

C. The seriousness of global plastic pollution.

D. The large consumption of plastic in hotels.

2. Which may be Grace Kang's opinion about the hospitality industry?

A. It still has a long way to go in order to go green.

B. It has no trouble in going green in the near future.

C. Its efforts to go green have spread around the world.

D. Its various environmental issues are still worrying.

3. What can we infer about the hospitality industry from the text?

A. The use of plastic bottles is banned in it.

B. Most hotels are even close to going green.

C. Trying to go green is already a trend in it.

D. Going green is the biggest challenge for it.

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难句分析

The Hilton chain has removed plastic straws from its hotel operations, switched from plastic key cards to digital ones at a number of hotels and removed plastic water bottles from meetings and events at hotels it manages in the Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa. 希尔顿连锁酒店在其酒店业务中已经停止使用塑料吸管，部分连锁酒店将塑料钥匙卡换成了数字钥匙卡;另外，在该公司管理的亚太、欧洲、中东和非洲地区的酒店里举行的会议和活动中严禁使用塑料水瓶。

该句为主从复合句，句中it manages in the Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa为定语从句修饰hotels。