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Unique Amenities Offering Rebates on Returned Cartons, Bottles

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MONSEY, N.Y.—Unique Amenities, one of the nation’s leading sources for guest amenities for the hospitality industry, announces the launch of a reusing drive to help change the direction of the hotel industry’s approach to going green. Unique Amenities is committed to its mission of a greener and cleaner earth, and to keeping toiletry bottles out of the nation’s landfills. Unique Amenities is therefore offering an unprecedented rebate on all its returned cartons and bottles, which will be processed for reuse.

Unique Amenities’ 100 percent pure New Zealand-made products are vegetarian based and contain GE-free ingredients. The packaging is all 100 percent recyclable.

“We are very proud to bring to America a wide range of pure and natural products produced in the clean environment of New Zealand,” says Libby Sheiner, marketing director with Unique Amenities.

Amenity Bottles End Up in Landfills

In a comprehensive effort to follow the journey of bottles and products from when they leave the manufacturer until they return as recycled containers, Sheiner has spoken to representatives of many U.S. recycling plants. Most U.S. recycling plants shred plastic bottles, Sheiner has found. The problem is that the small bottles used for hotel toiletries do not fit onto conveyer belts, and end up in landfills.

While it is widely believed that corn-based biodegradable bottles will decompose in landfills, scientific research has proven otherwise, according to Unique Amenities. Manufacturers of PSM plastic have stated that plastic bottles must be disposed of in a proper composting program in order to decompose. Left to rot in landfills, biodegradable bottles will produce methane gas. Methane is a greenhouse gas, which accounts for 20 percent of the total radiative forcing from all of the long-lived and globally mixed greenhouse gases, according to “Climate Change 2001, United Nations Environment Programme.”

“We are committed to keeping our planet green and clean,” Sheiner says. “Which is why Unique Amenities is now offering a first time ever solution for used bottles. Relying on biodegradable bottles to decompose in landfills is not good enough for Planet Earth, and therefore, not good enough for Unique Amenities.”

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