Business Traveller Asia-Pacific Edition

Paper straws won’t save the planet

I’d consider myself a green-minded business traveller, but probably I’m in the minority

It seems to have become trendy in recent times for hotels to make a fanfare of their token sustainability gestures – moves that are ostensibly good for the environment but of questionable efficacy in the grand scheme of saving the planet.

For example, Sino Hotels has eschewed bottled water at six of its Hong Kong properties in

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