PALMA DE MALLORCA, SPAIN—Iberostar Hotels & Resorts and Winnow are celebrating a successful partnership in the first half of 2023 by reducing food waste and achieving significant progress in their journey towards a waste-free future by 2025. With Winnow AI technology now installed in 48 of the 100+ Iberostar hotels globally, this progress includes:
- Cutting food waste by 28 percent in hotels with AI technology installed and onboarded.
- Globally, hotels using AI technology are saving 1.5 million meals per year which is well on Iberostar’s way to reaching its target of 5.3 million meals.
- Globally and from January to June 2023: 735K total meals saved, 11 percent reduction in waste weight, and 1,264 tons of CO2 saved.
- From a climate perspective, this translates to 2,500 tons of CO2e reduced per year—the equivalent of 6.4m miles driven by a passenger car (source: EPA calculator).
As part of its ambitious and pioneering sustainability movement called Wave of Change, Iberostar Hotels & Resorts partnered with Winnow in September 2022, with the aim of saving 1,600 tons of food waste per year, equivalent to 5.3 million meals.
