Hotels and hospitality businesses produce more sellable material than they think: cardboard and paper packaging, glass bottles, PET bottles and cans, used cooking oil, food waste for biogas or animal feed, old textiles (linen, towels, uniforms) and furniture and equipment from renovations.
Most hotels do not sell it because nobody owns the topic, volumes per stream seem small and the waste contractor takes everything. Yet regular, predictable volumes are exactly what collectors and recyclers want.
How to start:
- check what you produce each month and which streams are clean enough to separate;
- set up separate collection for cardboard, glass, plastics and cooking oil in the kitchen and back office;
- group several properties or a whole resort area to reach larger volumes;
- sell furniture, linen and equipment from renovations instead of discarding them.
Selling waste also helps with ESG reporting and certifications that guests and tour operators increasingly ask about.
On ReWasteHub, post each stream as a listing in its category, or post a Seeking services listing to find collection and recycling companies near you. Terms are agreed directly with the companies.