Toronto Green Hotel
Our eco friendly Toronto hotel has shown national industry leadership and commitment to protecting the environment through wide ranging environmentally friendly hotel policies and practices. Mature programs that involve management, employees, guests, and the public have shown substantial and measurable results. We do a number of things to maintain our role as an eco friendly hotel from growing our own rooftop herb garden to programs than reduce water and electricity usage to encouraging paperless meetings.
What We Do To Be an Eco Friendly Toronto Hotel
- Use Compact Fluorescent and LED lighting (80%
of hotel) - Donate gently used linens to our hotel charity
- Use of timers and dimmers to reduce electricity
- Extensive composting and recycling
- Aeration where possible to reduce water consumption
- Rooftop garden for herbs keeps us local
- Paperless meetings, confirmations, for example "e-BEOs"
- Paperless airline check-in in lobby
- Organic Menu, when possible Local
- Plastic free and non-disposable containers
- Recycling bins in each room, shredder upon request
- Selection of naturally flavoured spa waters, no plastic
- Biodegradable take-out containers, if needed
- Recycled meeting pads and compost friendly pens
Four Green Key Hotel.
InterContinental Toronto Yorkville is a four Green Key hotel. The Green Key Audit consists of a broad matrix of questions related to the following nine areas of sustainable hotel operations:- Energy conservation
- Water conservation
- Solid waste management
- Hazardous waste management
- Indoor air quality
- Community outreach
- Building infrastructure
- Land use
- Environmental management
friendly hotel:
- Corporate Environment Management
- Housekeeping
- Conference Services
- Food & Beverage Services
- Engineering
