Hotel Waste Management
Waste management in the hotel industry involves collecting and disposing of all sorts of trash responsibly. The USA has the most hotels and motels in the world with more than five million rooms available across more than 150,000 hotels. It’s big business and worth $660 billion to the nation’s economy, but with this comes lots of waste production.
Hotels generate nearly 300,000 tons of waste every year around the world. This includes everything from leftover food in a hotel restaurant to used toiletry products and packaging and old bedding from guest rooms. Efficient hotel waste management ensures it’s all stored, removed, and disposed of or recycled responsibly.
At Business Waste, we provide professional services to help reduce and manage your hotel or motel waste properly. Learn all about waste management in the hotel industry and get a free no-obligation quote for commercial hotel trash collection today – call XXXX or contact us online.
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Types of hotel trash
There are various kinds of hotel garbage produced by staff and guests. This includes food waste created in the kitchen when preparing meals for guests to empty bottles of cleaning products, soiled bedding, and anything thrown away in hotel room trash cans. These streams should be separated into different bins to ensure responsible disposal.
Common types and examples of hotel trash include:
- Food waste – fruit and vegetable peelings from meal preparations and leftovers from guests in the restaurant and rooms
- Solid waste – non-recyclable garbage chucked away in hotel trash cans in guest rooms
- Paper recycling – paper receipts, check-in documents, and paper menus
- Cardboard recycling – packaging for food products and toiletries
- Plastic waste – empty shampoo bottles, drink bottles, and other packaging
- Glass recycling – empty wine and beer bottles from the hotel bar
- Sanitary waste – any sanitary waste from hotel bathrooms
- Textile trash – damaged towels, bed linen, and curtains
- Electrical waste – broken kettles and TVs from guest rooms, old kitchen appliances
- Hazardous waste – cleaning product waste, broken light bulbs, old batteries
Hotel food waste management
Food waste in the hotel industry is a big challenge. Many hotels have their own restaurants that produce waste during the preparation process, due to spoilage, and from diners’ leftovers. The global hotel industry creates around 79,000 tons of food waste each year. Restaurants and hotels generate 40% of all food waste in the USA.
Effective hotel food waste management is vital to help reduce the amount of food items that go in the trash and end up in landfills. As food decomposes it releases methane, which is an incredibly powerful greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming. The amount of waste food hotels produce has a terrible environmental impact.
Separating food from solid waste in your hotel helps ensure it’s managed responsibly. We can provide dumpsters and bins for your hotel’s food waste and regular collections by fully licensed professionals. All waste food from hotels is disposed of away from landfills at composting sites or anaerobic digestion plants that generate energy from food waste.
Hotel waste collection
and disposal
Get rid of your commercial garbage with regular and reliable hotel waste collection. Choose between daily, weekly, and fortnightly pickups. You can combine various collection schedules for different waste streams for a cost-effective solution. For example, you might want daily hotel food waste removals but only need cardboard recycling collecting weekly.
Waste collections are made at convenient times that minimize disturbances for your guests and staff. We understand that seasonality affects the amount and types of garbage hotels produce so we can provide flexibility if you need to change your schedules around busier and quieter periods.
Hotel trash is collected and transported by fully licensed professionals to a nearby recycling or waste management center for processing. All hotel garbage is disposed of away from landfill sites where possible. We provide hotel recycling solutions for paper, cardboard, glass, plastic, and metals.
Other hotel garbage disposal methods include composting and anaerobic digestion for food and organic waste. Solid waste may be incinerated and disposed of via other methods away from landfills. This helps your hotel have a more positive environmental impact and save money on your disposal costs.
Hotel trash cans
and dumpsters
Store your hotel garbage safely before it’s collected with a wide range of hotel trash cans and dumpsters. Use these to separate your trash types to ensure as much as possible is recycled and reduce the risk of contamination. Various sizes are available to suit the volume of waste your hotel produces.
Keep food waste secure in dumpsters and bins that contain any bad smells they can emit so guests enjoy a pleasant stay. You can combine suitable dumpster types and sizes with a collection frequency that’s cost-effective too. Solutions are also available if you need hotel trash cans for guest rooms and other areas of your accommodation.
Discover dumpsters for your hotel waste:
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2 yard dumpsters
These small dumpsters suit downtown hotels and those with limited space or regular collections.
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8 yard dumpsters
Big dumpsters can store high volumes of trash and are ideal for hotels with plenty of storage space.
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Compactors
Minimize the volume of cardboard, paper, and other dry recyclables for fewer waste collections from your hotel.
Why use Business Waste for
hotel waste management?
Enjoy smooth hotel waste management thanks to our services. Affordable dumpster rental, regular trash collection, and responsible disposal make managing your hotel trash easy. As a leading waste broker, we work with local suppliers to deliver efficient and cost-effective services suited to your specific needs.
Partner with Business Waste for your hotel waste management needs and benefit from:
- Competitive prices – save money with bespoke prices sourced from local suppliers for highly competitive hotel waste collection costs.
- Hotel recycling – have a positive environmental impact with recycling services for your hotel trash including glass, paper, cardboard, and more.
- Customized services – combine the best dumpsters and pickup frequencies based on your hotel waste production for a tailored solution.
- Flexible waste collection – select from daily, weekly, and fortnightly trash collections alongside flexibility around seasonal changes.
- Dumpster rental – use dumpsters and bins that suit your hotel whether space is limited in a downtown hotel or you run an out-of-town motel.
Get your free no-obligation quote for hotel waste collection today – call XXXX or contact us online.
Hotel garbage FAQs
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Can you recycle hotel soap bars?
Hotel soap recycling is possible and there are various organizations that provide this service. Hotel soap bars are collected and taken to a specialist recycling center. Used bars of soap are ground into pellets, filtered and refined to remove contaminants, sterilized, filtered again, and tested. Then they’re turned into new bars of recycled soap.
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Can you recycle hotel key cards?
You should return any hotel key cards when you check out so they can be reused. If a hotel replaces old key cards or you accidentally take one home, it may be recyclable. It depends on the material the card is made from though. Common plastic hotel key cards made of PVC are often recyclable with plastic waste.
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Can you leave trash in a hotel room?
You should put trash in any garbage cans in your hotel room before you leave or take it with you. Ideally, take any recyclable trash like paper and cardboard home and dispose of it in a recycling bin or dumpster. Bits of food waste could be composted at home too. Avoid adding to solid waste bins where possible.
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- Free quote within 1 hr
- Any type of hotel waste
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- We cover all of the USA