ANNOUNCEMENT

Accor has announced it will remove all singleuse plastic items from the guest experience in its hotels by the end of 2022 by joining the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative led by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the World Tourism Organisation, in collaboration with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. This is a significant step forward for the global hospitality industry and for the group, which has been committed to sustainability for many years, to reduce its environmental impact and strengthen efforts to combat plastic pollution of the world’s oceans and other natural environments.

Welcoming over 120 million guests and serving more than 200 million meals each year, Accor takes its role as a responsible corporate citizen to heart, working within the framework of its sustainable development program for the past 25 years.

Single-use plastics are defined as disposable items that are used only once and then discarded. Examples include plastic straws, cotton buds, coffee stirrers, plastic cups, plastic bags, plastic water bottles, and many more. Relevant alternatives to plastic will be proposed for each specific item, considering Life Cycle Assessments to ensure better environmental performance.

“Our efforts do not stop here. We are an innovative group by nature and we continuously search for more areas where we can reduce our impact on the global environment while helping our local communities in their efforts to create a healthier, more sustainable future,” said Sébastien Bazin.

One of Accor’s main purposes, besides finding alternatives to plastic and reducing environmental impacts, is to positively change common mindsets globally by adopting the 3R logic: reduce, reuse and recycle. The group’s headquarters will lead in implementing best practices and hotels will enhance their local initiatives and solutions to hotel guests.