Melbourne’s Green Hotels Cleaning the Environment

As part of Melbourne’s sustainability initiatives the city has launched a test pilot for its program to improve the energy efficiency, water consumption and waste management of its hotels and residential apartments. The data collected from the 30 participating hotels showed staggering results.

The initiative was a result of a study conducted in the city showing that Melbourne’s residential apartments and hotels are accountable for 22% of the city’s water usage, 14,000 tons of waste and 9% of the total carbon emissions.

The results of the test pilot were phenomenal showing how easy it is for businesses to make sustainable changes that will save them a lot of money as well. On average the 30 participating hotels and apartments were able to reduce a guest’s water usage by 4.8 litres, reduce a total of 2410 tons of waste annually and over the course of the test able to save almost 25,000 tons of greenhouse gases. 

With the project’s success the city council of Melbourne is now encouraging more hotels to “green” their facilities by releasing a series of water and energy starter kits.

Melbourne has continued its pipeline of projects to make the city more sustainable, not resting of its existing achievements even after winning the 2011 award for Most Liveable City. The use of renewable energy in the city has escalated over the past few months, especially in the case of solar panels in Melbourne.