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Let's Reduce Single-Use
without compromising quality or the customer experience
The single-use plastic dilemma in tourism:
Hotels, tour operators, and destinations know that single-use plastic is a problem. Guests say they don’t want it, but when it’s gone, they complain. Regulations are tightening, suppliers are lagging behind, alternatives often cost more and your own brand standards might even make it challenging to implement change. Finding the balance between sustainability, guest expectations, operational efficiency and protecting your reputation? That’s what we help you to do.
How We Help
Our programme starts with the facts, no guesswork, no quick fixes. We help businesses take stock of their plastic use, categorizing items based on the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative (GTPI) framework. We track costs, weights, and volumes, making it clear where plastic can be eliminated, reduced, or replaced with reusable alternatives. We help businesses to feel confident when choosing other alternative materials, they are not all as green as they seem!
Why not just switch to biodegradable alternatives? Because it’s not that simple. We are not in the business of solving one problem only to create another. Many alternatives labelled as biodegradable still create waste, don’t break down as expected, or just shift the problem elsewhere. We focus on helping you to implement operational procedures that support overall waste reduction, not just material substitution.
For accommodation providers and tour operators, we can visit your business or walk through them on camera to identify opportunities for real change. Businesses get a clear action plan with practical, tailored recommendations and a tracking spreadsheet to monitor progress and align with GTPI expectations. The result? Less waste, smarter solutions, and sustainability that works in practice, not just on paper.
At a destination level, we run workshops that bring accommodation providers, tour operators, tourism venues and service providers, suppliers, waste management organisations, public sector and policymakers together. These sessions help to share best practices, align on scalable solutions, and navigate challenges collectively. By looking at the bigger picture, we help create stronger, more sustainable supply chains that benefit everyone.
ACCOMMODATIONS
Single-use plastic audits, tailored action plans and tools to track progress that align with Global Tourism Plastics Initiative Reporting
DESTINATIONS
Destination based workshops for tourism businesses and value chains, connecting key people to share best practice, navigate challenges and find scalable solutions.
TOUR OPERATORS
Identifying the 4 circles of influence where Tour Operators can make a difference and inspire travellers to truly Travel Without Plastic
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From training over 50 passionate people to become GTPI Champions, ready to drive real change in their business and beyond, to working side by side with over 25 hotel chains and 7 leading tour operators, creating tailored programmes for their operations. When businesses commit to solutions that work for them, major changes are possible.
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BENEFITS
OF INVESTING IN THE LRSU PROGRAMME
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Operational Insight
The sheer volume of plastics used on site is always surprising to people we work with. The results make it easier to gain support for changes.
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Attract your Ideal Guest
Proactively communicating your plastic reduction strategies will help to attract more eco-conscious travellers, who in turn make it easier to implement other sustainability changes.
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Waste & Cost Reductions
Reducing volumes of waste can also mean reducing the cost associated with collecting waste, cumulatively over months and years, this adds up.
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Comply with Certifications
Increasingly, certification schemes ask hotels to provide evidence of their plastic and waste reduction measures, our programme makes providing evidence simple and easy.
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Don't miss out on 5* reviews
More and more hotels are missing out on 5* reviews, simply because of single-use plastic, don't let this happen to you.
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PREMIUM BENEFITS
Our premium programme opens the door to 1:1 mentorship, access to training platforms, bonus workshops and a supplier directory, helping to accelerate your results.