Lanzarote Retreats
Lanzarote Retreats is an accommodation provider based in Spain. Their mission is to create an environment in which people can become aware of their larger environmental, social, political and economic impact as a tourist. They challenge their customers, as tourists, to reflect on their consumptive patterns and their footprints. They implemented a zero single-use plastic policy with an initial focus on the food sector. They work with companies that use non-plastic wrapping, or buy dried foods in bulk, selling them in returnable glass jars, incentivizing clients to be more aware of their waste, and start consuming within a closed-loop cycle. They aim to work with local companies that have zero plastic wrapping and if possible, work in a returnable deposit system, stimulating a circular economy. Finally, they partner with local NGOs Lanzarote Limpia and the Clean Ocean Project, to organize beach cleans.
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Accommodation Providers
Global Tourism Plastics Initiative
In the framework of the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative, Lanzarote Retreats
commits to:
commits to:
- Taking action to eliminate the problematic or unnecessary plastic packaging and single-portion or single-serving packaging from their bathrooms by 2025;
- Eliminating plastic packaging, single-portion or single-serving packaging, and cling films from their food and drink services by 2025;
- Taking action to eliminate the problematic or unnecessary single-portion or single-serving packaging from their cleaning services by 2025;
- Introducing reusable solutions for plastic packaging, plastic items, single-portion or single-serving packaging, and containers for cleaning products in their bathrooms by 2025;
- Taking action to introduce reuse solutions to replace plastic packaging, plastic items, single-portion or single-serving packaging in their food and drink services by 2025;
- Engaging the suppliers and business associations to provide data on recyclability and compostability of plastic packaging to facilitate the move towards 100% of plastic packaging to be reusable, recyclable, or compostable by 2025;
- Establishing procurement criteria on % of recycled content in packaging and items and its reusability, recyclability, and compostability;
- Developing a 2025 target on % of recycled content in packaging and items and its reusability, recyclability, and compostability;
- Increasing the amount of recycled content across all plastic packaging and items used by 2025 through engaging suppliers and business associations;
- Collaborating with waste service providers, businesses, and key stakeholders in collection and segregation of recyclable and organic materials in our facilities to help increase recycling and composting rates in practice;
- Introducing training for staff on sorting solid waste and investing resources to promotes innovation;
- Reporting publicly and annually on progress made towards these targets;
- Reporting estimated weight (metric tonnes) of plastics purchased/procured.
