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Scandic Hotels Pledge Environmental Purity by 2025

Scandinavians seem to be renowned for a bit of a social conscience and the Scandic Hotels chain has long had a reputation for doing things green.

In the last decade or so, Scandic has already done a lot to be environmentally friendly across their 140 hotels: introducing recycling bins into guest rooms, replacing chlorine bleach with oxygen bleach in the laundry, and renovating rooms with recyclable and renewable materials.

Last week Scandic made a very big promise: their goal is to be "100% green by 2025", which means eliminating all carbon-emitting activities and basically being super, super-environmental, including:

thermo steered heating, usage of renewed energy, cars driven by renewed fuel, water efficient water taps, showers and toilets, KRAV-labelled food (eco labelled), garbage sorters in 23 000 hotel rooms, switch to electricity from waterpower plants and no use of disposable packages.

Wow. Perhaps Scandic's services could be even more environmentally responsible if they just gave us sleeping bags and tents to stay in?

[Photo: jeaneeem]

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