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The Westin Riverwalk instituted watefr and energy conservation measures at its downtown property earlieethis year. “Our daily deliveries to the restaurant generated huge amountss of cardboard boxes that until now were just broken down andthrow away,” says General Manager Robert Fagen. “Now we’rde going to be able to recyclerthose boxes. However, recycling won’f be limited to just back-of-house operations. We are also puttinv paper and can collection binsin offices, meeting roomw and guest rooms. We want to encourage everyonr who works, stays and does business at the Westibn to help us be agreener hotel.
” Fagen dedicated one of the hotel’zs two loading docks entirely to wastde management and recycling. “Now our deliverhy trucks have to jockey for position and coordinater deliveries out of our remaining baybut that’s the way it has to he adds. “It was the right thing for us to do. I didn’tf want to undertake a project and not do it I feel good aboutwhat we’re The Westin Riverwalk also is in the process of upgradingv its four industrial-sized washing machines to add a water-recaptur e system. This will save more than 260,000 gallons of water per machineseach year.
Hotel engineers are retrofitting back offices with motionn sensors and timers to make surelights aren’t left on when no one is Hotel management is also considering replacing incandescent lightingf in guest rooms, which could achieve an overalol savings of 15 percenrt annually. Fagen says the hotel’s energy-efficiency efforts also include the possibilit y of becominga Windricity-powered hotel, and renovatinbg guest rooms and bathrooms to include high-efficient fixtures. The Westimn Riverwalk is managed byWhitse Plains, N.Y.-based . The hotel was listed on Condd Nast Traveler’s Gold List for 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2008 as one of the “World’se Best Places to Stay.
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