NEW YORK—Save A Sample!’s annual industry recycling drive is coming to Canada. Save A Sample!, a nonprofit recycling drive, makes it easy for designers to donate materials and samples to local design students. Save A Sample! takes place each year throughout the United States, saving tons of materials from the landfill. This year Save A Sample! expands its sustainable mission to Canada.“We’re going global,” says Suzanne Swift, Save A Sample!’s Founder and President of SpecSimple.com. SpecSimple.com is the industry’s first web portal for design industry information and the home of Virtual Library, a Best of NeoCon GOLD award winner....

LAS VEGAS—Caesars Entertainment Corp., with the help of Ecova, is digging deep into its own trash to uncover opportunities to improve its waste diversion rate. That diversion rate currently stands at 44 percent, up from 23 percent in 2013. The company’s 2020 goal is a 50 percent diversion rate. Key to Caesars’ success so far is its commitment to consistently measure its waste stream and conduct a “dumpster dive” every now and then to uncover opportunities for continuous improvement.When Jeff Ruskowitz, Caesars’ Manager of Engineering and Sustainable Operations, joined the company in 2013, he found that Caesars had not...

SANDSTON, VA.—Following the success of their existing C-Thru range, Glasdon—a leading supplier of recycling bins and trash cans—have launched the C-Thru Battery Recycling Bins, designed especially for the collection of unwanted batteries.Batteries are ubiquitous in our everyday lives and are often overlooked in our recycling efforts. But batteries commonly contain heavy and corrosive chemicals that have the potential to pollute the environment if they are not disposed of correctly.By offering a battery recycling bin, you are encouraging users to properly and safely dispose of their used batteries. The transparent, yet strong, body of the C-Thru Battery Recycling Bins means...

PHILADELPHIA—It was just a year ago that Hersha Hospitality Trust released its first Sustainability Report. Last month, Jay Shah, CEO of the lodging REIT, announced the release of the company’s second Sustainability Report. According to Bennett Thomas, Senior Vice President of Finance and Sustainability for Hersha, it is one of only a few lodging REITs to issue a sustainability report. “Hersha is one of the few lodging REITs that report on sustainability,” Thomas says. Hersha’s second report reflects the activities of its 55 owned hotels.Last year was another strong year for sustainability accomplishments for Hersha. For the third time...

BANGKOK—Leading Asian hospitality group Dusit International has teamed up with PressReader to offer unlimited access to more than 5,000 leading publications and magazines worldwide to its valued guests. PressReader HotSpot is a cost-effective and environmentally-friendly service available to guests staying in participating hotels and resorts where they can download the PressReader application on any digital device such as smartphone, tablet, eReader or access content using a laptop via web browser.With the application, guests can download and enjoy full content, with real replica newspapers and magazines available. The extensive variety of local and international titles includes USA Today, Daily Mail,...

Name: Wes Shirley Title: Director of Engineering Hotel: Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead Years with hotel: Six Primary responsibilities: “It’s my responsibility to make sure every single guest that stays in our hotel has a flawless and enjoyable stay. I do that by making sure that my employees are happy, well trained and completely engaging with our guests. It’s my responsibility to the owners to ensure that their building is well maintained. At all times it should look and run like a new hotel. It’s also my duty to spend their money wisely, always looking for new, inventive ways to lower their costs...

ODESSA, FLA.—Hasek Communications, the Odessa, Fla.-based publisher of Green Lodging News, welcomes reCollect2 Co. as a Green Lodging Survey sponsor at the Bronze level. The reCollect2 recycler is a three piece set which includes a 10 quart wastebasket, matching recycle bin and base. Select message(s) of one’s choice can be printed on the individual bins and base. The set is manufactured from reprocessed plastic products. Each reCollect2 set measures 15.25” x 12.25” x 12” high and is made in Wisconsin. Call (262) 527-9375, e-mail info@reCollect2recycler.com, or visit www.reCollect2recycler.com for more information.

LAS VEGAS—Republic Services and The Mirage Hotel & Casino unveiled a new recycling exhibit inside the Sustainability Discovery Center at Siegfried & Roy’s Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat. The exhibit is part of an ongoing commitment made by Republic and MGM Resorts International to increase awareness of sustainability throughout Southern Nevada and among roughly 42 million tourists who visit annually. “MGM Resorts International and Republic have partnered to increase awareness of the positive impacts of recycling, and the important role each individual can play,” said Cindy Ortega, Senior Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer of MGM Resorts International. “The Mirage...

ODESSA, FLA.—Hasek Communications, the Odessa, Fla.-based publisher of Green Lodging News, has added a Global Sustainability Solutions (GSS) case study to its website. The case study details how GSS was able to assist the Hilton Los Angeles Airport (Hilton LAX) with mattress and box spring disposal (3,943 pieces). GSS project manager, Ashley Seaman, coordinated with Hilton LAX to determine the best way to efficiently remove and replace the bed sets with minimal disruption while seamlessly coordinating the complex logistics among its mattress partner, Serta, the hotel staff, the GSS crew of 15-plus professionals and the recycling facility.GSS accepted and...

STILLWATER, MINN.—SelfEco introduces its new line of bioplastic party and catering ware that is Compostable without Compromise. “Compostable products should be superior to the non-recyclable, disposable products they replace,” said Danny Mishek, President, SelfEco. “You should not have to make sacrifices to use them. You should feel proud and excited to use them. We have transformed compostable party and catering ware from products customers are forced to use to products they want to use because of their quality and appeal.”“SelfEco has created a line of upscale, attractive and durable disposable service ware that fits great into many event and...