Nowadays, the problem of environmental on the worldis increasing gradually. It can be due to the human behavior’s lead to theincreasing of waste, water pollution, climate change and etc. Currently, hotelwhich is the industry that growing up rapidly on the world so the hotel’soperation, activity and practice have a direct impact to the world. Many of thehotel activity contribute the negative impact to the world such as the hotelactivity can generate emission of greenhouse gases and release to the air suchas carbon dioxide and chlorofluorocarbons.

(Kirk 1995:5; Verginis & Wood1999:133).Besides, the water use by each customer is at the range of 170 and 440 literspernight and based on the evaluation, the CO2 release from the standard 5 starhotelis 160kg to 200kg per square meter of room floor area per year. Moreover, thewaste of the standard hotel create can reach to 1kg per customer per night (Han,Hsu & Sheu 2010:325). So ecofriendly practices is very important and is amust to every hotel. First, hotel is the major water consumption user inthe world so in order to minimize the use of water, management of water used isvery important. The water used by the every hotel can be reduced by severaltype of method. Hotel can purchase the water saving device such as low FlowFaucet Aerators and Shower Heads.

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This can reduce the water consumption by eachroom. Moreover, the housekeeper should check every of room to make sure thatall the device are function normally, don’t have any leakage of water in thebathroom after they clean the room. Besides, toilet is the place which foundthe most of water consumption. To reduce the water used in the toilet, hotelcan use the toilet tank bank. This product can easily reduce the water used andit does not need any maintenance fees. It can save 80 to 160 oz. of water perflush.

It also easy to use as you just have to fill it with water then place itin the toilet tank. Another method which can also reduce the water used perflush by putting a glass jar inside the toilet tank. (Allen2007:57) Thought these 2 method, the hotel can save a lot of water used. The hotelcan install a timed (self-closing) faucets as to prevent the waterkeep running without using. For the hotel staff, concerning on training and putsome poster and instruction on the staff restroom or staff canteen to remindthem those ecofriendly practice. Secondly, waste management. The hotel can avoidusing the hygiene product which are individual pack, they can fill the hygieneproduct into refillable dispenser so the hotel no need to throw the package ofhygiene product every time the guest used.

Besides, provide more compartmentsto the housekeeping trolley for the purpose of collect different type of wasteso the waste can be differentiate and increase the waste collection. In addition,reuse the things and make the product life longer. For example, reuse the oldnapkin or towel as rags. For the front office department, try to decrease theuse of paper and printing of report.

If can choose the method of email. Moreover,reuse the used paper as scrap paper and printing the paper with two sidedoption so it can save the 50% of the paper used. If possible choose recycledpaper. For those which can recycle, hotel can use this opportunities to clearout all the waste.

 Thirdly, air quality of the hotel. Air quality isvery importance for the hotel and hotel’s guest. The ventilation in indoorshould be perform effectively and give a sign to the nonsmoking and smokingplace clearly. Besides, make sure that the use of aerosols is not excess to thelimit and so that it will not damage the ozone layer.

For the cleaning agents,try to choose the biodegradable and if possible select the product which issolvent free to prevent diffusion of volatile organic compound. In addition,the hotel’s staff should follow the instruction stated on the bottle and avoidmixing the cleaning agents when use.Fourthly, energy management. Install the occupancysensor for each guest room in order to use the energy only if got people insidethe room and can use the magnetic card so it can automatically switch off thelight when thee guest leaves from the room.

The air conditioners should be cleanand change thee filter frequently. For the administration, train the hotel’sstaff to switch off the all the equipment such as copy machine, computer whennot use. Besides, don’t leave the door or window open when the air conditioningis turn on to decrease the energy consumption. In addition, hotel can purchasethe energy saving light bulb, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) todecrease the total energy used by the hotel.