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Exploring Eco-Hotels: Hotel Triton's Eco-Floor

Where: 342 Grant Avenue [map], San Francisco, ca, United States, 94108

Naturally, in San Francisco the eco hotel trend has taken off. At Hotel Triton, a Kimpton property, they started an Eco-Floor back in the 1990s where a recycling program was put in place, biodegradable cleaning products were used, the rooms were lit with low wattage lighting, and organic coffee was served.

In 2003, the hotel began to take the Eco-floor practice to all of its rooms. Just some of the ways the hotel is eco-conscious today:

· Amenity dispensers in all of the rooms reduce packaging waste from soaps and shampoo bottles by 90%.
· Linen and towel re-use program reduces laundry detergent and water use by 25%.
· The Hotel Triton Energy Efficiency Program has outfitted the entire hotel with energy efficient lighting and motion sensors wherever possible.
· Extensive recycling program helps the hotel recycle 60% of our waste. Guest recycling receptacles have been placed in all guestrooms so that guests also can recycle.
· Landfill Use Reduction. All usable hotel items are donated to local non-profit organizations (furniture, mattresses, artwork, equipment, a/c units, refrigerators, linens and towels, lost-and-found items, wall coverings, etc.).

Leave it to a Kimpton hotel to go all out on the eco-hotel trend. But if you're worried that the organic cleaning products might not clean so well, one guest reports:

Yes, the hotel is old (which explains why the rooms are small), but it has been thoroughly renovated and is very clean. My room was immaculately clean, and I am very picky about cleanliness.

So your inner hippie and your new millenium germ freak should be able to reconcile their differences here.

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