The Tontine Enviornmental Charter
Everyone at the Tontine understands our responsibility to protect and minimize our impact on the environment. Our mission is to establish environmental standards of operation, create policies designed to conserve natural resources, educate our guests and team members and to partner with local and environmentally friendly businesses and organisations.
Our hotel will:
- Implement strategic environmental practices in the operation of our hotel
- Manage resources consumed in an effort to reduce use of electric, gas, water and waste usage wherever practical
- Educate and engage ourselves, team members, guests and vendors in our ongoing efforts to protect the environment
- Consider our commitment to the environment when making business decisions
- Purchase low energy lighting throughout the hotel
- Turn off non-essential equipment and lights when not in use
- Implement a hotel recycling program to the full extent of our hotels' municipality
- Purchase supplies made with recycled content and products that can be used more than once and/or recycled.Purchase A-rated Energy Star® labeled appliances and equipment wherever feasible.
- Discard toxic materials and products that contain them properly (fluorescent bulbs, batteries, chemicals, etc).Discard only things that cannot be re-used or recycled.
- Use electronic or digital communications (email, telephone, text messages) before using paper/print based communications (fax, print)
We strongly believe that our efforts to conserve energy and resources today will serve the interests of both our current and future generations.
