HOW CAN YOU MAKE IT EASY TO RECYCLE IN YOUR VENUE?
While complying with commercial recycling legislation changes is a must for hospitality and food service businesses, recycling as much waste as possible in your venue is also a good move for your sustainability credentials and will help you to reduce waste management costs.
So, how can you make sure your customers and employees are recycling as much waste as possible? Here are our top tips:
1. Make it VISIBLE with clear and consistent signage
To maximise your recycling rate, you need to make it as easy as possible for people in your venue to recycle by making your bins visible and being clear and consistent with your signage and colour scheme.
Make sure your staff and customers can easily see how and where they can recycle. Place your bins so they are visible in areas of high footfall and where you know waste is being generated.
Colour-coded bins with clear signage and symbols that show what can and can’t be recycled will help you minimise costly cross-contamination and make it easy for people to recycle more.
You will need different types of bins in different areas of your venue but by maintaining consistent colours, symbols and messaging throughout, it’ll be easy for people to recycle wherever they are.
With many hospitality venues catering for international guests and staff, using symbols and multiple languages on your signage can help make sure as many people as possible understand where they should put their waste.
2. Cultivate a recycling culture
Building the right culture in your venue will help you recycle more and work towards your sustainability goals. Bring your employees on the journey, making sure they know why recycling is important and their role in making it happen. Provide training that inspires your team to become advocates so they will champion sustainability with guests and colleagues.
Managing guest waste has long been a challenge for hotels, with implementing in-room recycling impractical from space, time and contamination risk perspectives. Instead, create recycling points at convenient locations, such as lift lobbies, reception areas and lounges. Communicate your recycling process to customers to help maximise your recycling efforts.
Our free Love to Learn Recycling online training has been designed to help businesses integrate sustainability into the workplace. The four interactive training modules streamline the most important knowledge your employees need to know, and help you embed a culture of recycling.
