environmental policy
welcome to 'i villini'
treading lightly on the environment
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Our challenge is to have an effective environmental policy that doesn’t diminish your experience of this gorgeous place. i villini is a participant in the "Greening Lovedale Hunter Valley" program.
It is said that, within the tourism industry, accommodation has the greatest environmental impact through its use of water (particularly in the laundering of linen), power and packaging.
We have attempted to reduce our ‘environmental footprint’ by:
- converting to 25% GreenPower
- installing evacuated-tube solar hot water systems
- replacing our incandescent light globes with warm-light compact fluorescent (CFL) light bulbs
- turning off power points after you leave
- encouraging guests to avoid extreme settings on air-conditioners
- installing ceiling fans
- trebling our rainwater storage
- reusing all grey water on the gardens
- we have planted 700 native trees & plant 50 per year to carbon offset our cars
- replacing electrical goods with high-energy-efficiency products
- using cleaning products selected because of their minimal impact on the environment
- recycling plastic, paper, polystyrene, glass, cans & our e-waste
- composting
- limiting our use of packaging
- our candles are from iKOU. www.ikou.com.au
- bread is GM free & our eggs are free range, we also buy 'Australian Made' as much as we can
- joining the World Vision “Twice As Green” program
how you can help
- when travelling, please dispose of your cigarettes butts carefully, they take 18 months to break down.
- Please consider not buying bottled water. Plastics are made from oil, gas & coal. 1.3 million tonnes of plastic goes to landfill in Australia each year.
When staying elsewhere:-
- let the hotel know you don’t need sheets or towels changed
- use water wisely
- turn off the air-conditioning & lights when leaving the room
- recycle
- ask the hotel if they have an environmental policy
- patronise accommodation that has “healthy planet” programs & environmental policies
