Environmental Policy for Hotel Los Castanos

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To mitigate the potentially harmful effects of tourism, we employ the following strategies:

Lighting is low-consumption energy-saving bulbs except bedside and bathroom lights which are halogen because reading in bed is a Good Thing and cutting yourself while shaving is a Bad Thing.

We use no disposable products. But we continue to question the environmental cost of laundering linen napkins versus throwing away paper ones. Guests who use their sleeves are awarded special points!!

Our tiny village has excellent recycling facilities with separate containers for paper, glass, tincans, plastic. Everything from the hotel that can be recycled, is.

From the bits and pieces that John found in his pocket, he has constructed an experimental solar panel to heat water. On cloudy days the gasoil supplements the sun. The boiler turns itself off in the wee hours and washing machine and other programable devices turn themselves on.

Eschewing the usual hotel practice of wasteful and tediously tiny bottles of bathroom products, we provide large bottles of ecologically produced olive oil shampoo, bath gel and body oil.

We rely upon what is available locally - by which I mean Ronda as there are no shops in Cartajima

By supplying details of local enterprises to our guests, we hope to spread the wealth

We hope that when you come to stay with us you will enjoy these policies rather than finding them restrictive in any way. And we welcome feedback and more good ideas. This a handy site for those seeking ways to reduce, reuse, recycle. One can easily check to see how one is doing.