IN MID-AUGUST, Siddharth Chakravarty—Sustainability Director at Six Senses Fort Barwara—got on a monthly call with the global sustainability team of Six Senses Resorts. The topic of discussion was a sunscreen that had been removed from all its properties globally because it was discovered that when mixed with ocean water, it impacted corals. “I am nowhere close to an ocean, so why should I discontinue that particular brand, I asked,” says Chakravarty. The Six Senses Fort Barwarah as an STP (sewage treatment plant) and all grey water is treated before being used for gardening. “The sunscreen would disturb the biome, or the colony of bacteria in the STP plant, I was informed,” says Chakravarty, adding that that is the level of detail that Six Senses goes into when it comes to sustainability.
At Fort Barwar a—the only Six Senses Spa and Resort in India that opened late last year and made news as the venue of the Vicky Kaushal-Katrina Kaif wedding—Chakravarty has stopped ordering commercial cleaning supplies for housekeeping as they use a lot of chemicals. “We are making in-house bio enzymes (non-pathogenic bacteria to digest waste). These take a round two months to
