The Effects of Marriott’s Ethical Changes
According to an article published by AP News correspondent Dee-Ann Durbin in August of this year, Marriott International, a multinational hospitality company with over 7000 hotels across the world, plans to ban the supply of small shampoo and shower bottles in their hotels by December 2020. Marriott, like other rival hotels such as InterContinental Hotels Group and Walt Disney Resorts, are seeking to eliminate about 1.7 million tonnes of plastic every year by replacing the tiny toiletries with bigger bottles that will reduce the excessive use of shampoo and other toiletries, and produce less plastic than the smaller bottles. Marriott is not the only hotel company planning to reduce the consumption of small toiletries — other companies are going to be affected by a combination of legal and environmental factors. Lawmakers in the US and the European Union are planning to ban small shampoo bottles by 2023, and plastic cutlery by 2021. This news relates to the busi...
