With the overall enhancement of domestic environmental protection awareness and the continuous improvement of regulatory requirements, in the future, hotels and other accommodations will no longer actively provide disposable plastic products. On September 2, according to the official WeChat news of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the General Office of the Ministry of Commerce recently issued the “Notice on Further Strengthening the Treatment of Plastic Pollution in the Commercial Field”, and announced the phased tasks of banning and restricting plastics, requiring that by the end of 2022, the whole country Star-rated hotels, hotels and other places within the scope no longer actively provide disposable plastic products. By the end of 2025, the scope of implementation will be expanded to all hotels, hotels, and homestays. Industry insiders pointed out that the introduction of this document will help reduce the provision and use of disposable plastic products in the accommodation industry. At present, many hotels and homestays have paid more and more attention to environmental protection, and the ban on plastic and limit plastic will also become a new trend in the future accommodation industry. trend.

The notice pointed out that in recent years, the consumption of plastic products, especially disposable plastic products, has continued to increase, which has brought new challenges to environmental pollution control. Local commercial authorities should focus on key areas such as shopping malls, supermarkets, bazaars, catering, accommodation, exhibitions, e-commerce, and accurately grasp the specific plastic bans and restrictions on different plastic products in terms of implementation areas and time nodes, and carefully grasp them. Implement.

In fact, with regard to the restriction of the use of disposable plastic products in hotels and other accommodation places, the relevant authorities have started to promote relevant work before. On January 19 this year, it was mentioned in the "Opinions on Further Strengthening the Control of Plastic Pollution" issued by the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment:

By the end of 2022, star-rated hotels and other places across the country will no longer actively provide disposable plastic products, and can provide related services by setting up self-service purchase machines and providing refillable detergents;

By the end of 2025, the scope of implementation will be expanded to all hotels, hotels, and homestays.

In April this year, the National Development and Reform Commission also publicly solicited opinions from the public on the "Catalogue of Prohibited and Restricted Production, Sales and Use of Plastic Products (Draft for Solicitation of Comments)". The "Catalog" puts forward that the banned and restricted plastic products include disposable plastic products in hotels and hotels, including plastic combs, toothbrushes, soap boxes, sewing boxes, shower caps, and washing and care products containers (such as shower gel bottles, Shampoo bottles, moisturizer bottles, etc.), laundry bags, etc. From the perspective of the industry, it is imperative to promote various industries, including hotels, to bid farewell to disposable plastic products as soon as possible.

Zhao Huanyan, chief knowledge officer and senior economist of Huamei Hotel Consulting, said that there is indeed a certain amount of waste in disposable plastic products in hotels, guesthouses and other accommodation industries, and it is also not conducive to environmental protection.

Zhao Huanyan further pointed out that based on the current scale of the hotel industry, based on the estimated consumption of 2 toothbrushes (0.01 kg per piece of plastic) and 1 comb (0.005 kg per piece of plastic) per rental room, China’s hotel industry consumes at least 59 plastic per day. Tons, 21,535 tons per year, accounting for five ten thousandths of my country’s annual production of 40 million tons of waste plastics, and this set of data does not include small-package toiletries, disposable tableware, etc. Therefore, the hotel industry does not take the initiative to provide disposable plastic products, obviously will greatly promote the development of environmental protection.

At the same time, some well-known hotel groups are also pushing to reduce the use of disposable plastic products. The reporter learned that the InterContinental Hotels Group announced last year that it will gradually switch to large-bottled toiletries in its nearly 843,000 rooms worldwide, and will complete this goal in 2021. The relevant person in charge of the InterContinental Hotels Group said that before announcing the full use of large-bottled toiletries, the group has tested this measure. Most guests hope to ensure the experience of staying while using more environmentally friendly products. Not only that, IHG also started in October 2018 to replace plastic straws with biodegradable products on a global scale.

In terms of domestic hotel groups, hotel groups including Kaiyuan and BTG Home Inns have also done some work in environmental protection. According to the relevant person in charge of New Century Hotel Group, many brands under the group including Kaiyuan Fangcao Village Hotel, Fangcao Qingqing RV Camp, Kaiyuan Guantang, Kaiyuan Mingting, Kaiyuan Mingdu, etc. have gradually changed their toiletries to large Bottled, and use more environmentally friendly cleaning products, packaging also uses recyclable or degradable materials.

Industry insiders also suggest that while plastics are restricted and banned in hotels, relevant standards and regulations should be further refined. For example, the competent authority should clearly propose that hotels need to contain washing and care products containers (such as body soap bottles, shampoo bottles, and moisturizers). Frost bottles, etc.) are replaced with large bottles, and non-plastic containers are required.

In addition, Zhao Huanyan also said that hotels in many countries and regions in the world no longer actively provide disposable plastic products, and the domestic hotel industry will also develop in this direction in the future. However, the real implementation of relevant policies requires local legislative support.