Recycle, ReUse, Reduce

At the Captain's Inn we keep refining our green choices and actions. We have just signed into a new program with Monterey County Environmental Health Department. We are partnered with the county under a grant from the US Department of the Interior to reduce trash and increase recycling at lodging facilities. We will be getting new containers, staff have undergone recycling training (bilingual program too), and we finished a pre-assessment. Our new goal with this program is to reduce trash by another 30%. We are hoping guests pitch in to help us meet our goals.
Our staff is always working to meet better recycling. Here is an example: Guests do not like "shorties", shorties are our nickname for rolls of toilet paper that are not empty but partial used. So we take them out of rooms expecting new guest, and finish using the shorties in the staff bathroom. Once empty, we save up the rolls for use by the local preschool in arts and crafts.