What we’ve achieved Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Where we can, we use OLIO for any unused food that is left over from hosting events. We’ve helped more than 200 families with meals from food that would have been unnecessarily sent to waste.

Our South Downs bottled waters are better for the environment. The glass bottle has a lower impact when it comes to recycling and the South Downs are on our doorstep thereby minimising transport.

We even collect any water from the halfused bottles in bedrooms or meeting rooms and transfer it to water butts for use around our estates.

Events

Many of our partners have embraced our outlook, have championed their own change, and have helped us embed practices that permeate into the wider supply network.

For our live event clients, we’ve collaborated with event:decision to help formalise the processes corporates undertake to plan, deliver, and track the impact of their events.

We’ve implemented Klimato for catering at events which helps calculate, reduce, and carbon label our delegate menus.

Bedrooms

In our bedrooms we’ve swapped many items from being single use plastic to recyclable including coffee pods, water bottles, tea bags and milk bottles. South Lodge and Pennyhill Park have both implemented plastic free vanity sets too.

We’ve also changed our in-room biscuit provider to Island Bakery due to the bakery’s credentials.

We’ve requested to our laundry supplier that any newly laundered sheets and robes have all plastic coverings removed from them.

Our empty loo roll holders are proving invaluable in our kitchen gardens as seed trainers!

Kitchens

In the kitchens we’re trialling cling film with 100% biodegradable food wrap that is eco-friendly and contains no microplastics and best of all can degrade and compost on our own grounds.

BC SoftWear, our spas textile and flipflop supplier has partnered with waste management organisation, First Mile, as well as ethical textiles recycling business, Reskinned, to give us an even greater depth of sustainability.

While First Mile arranges the collection of discarded flip flops from Pennyhill Park and South Lodge in ultra-low emission electric vehicles, Reskinned then links waste management with new technology to recycle the flips flops, so they can be turned into surfaces for children’s playgrounds or equine menage.

Spas 2000

We’ve flipped the flop of discarding around 2000 of these items a month to create quite a positive bounce back!