California Hotel Wins Waste Reduction Award

The Hyatt Regency Irvine hotel in Southern California is one of the recipients of the California Integrated Waste Management Board’s 2009 Waste Reduction Award.

For the past ten years, the hotel has searched for ways to improve its green programs.

"We are grateful to the California Integrated Waste Management Board for their recognition of our concerted efforts to better our hotel's impact on the environment," says Colleen Kareti, general manager of Hyatt Regency Irvine. "We are continually striving to reduce our carbon footprint and to bring new green initiatives to the property."

The hotel's initiatives include: recycling of 15 different types of waste materials including nearly all food waste, using a hot water re-claimer to collect all washing machine wastewater to pre-heat the domestic water before it enters the laundry boiler, use of environmentally friendly pool chemicals, compact fluorescent bulb lighting in all guestrooms and corridors, EnergyStar appliances, low-flow showerheads and sinks, an automatic temperature set back when the room is not occupied and use of only environmentally save cleaners in guestrooms.