The Greening of Marriott

Posted by: Michelle Conlin on January 15

There’s a lot of plastic cup-and-bottle shaming going on at Marriott’s DC headquarters these days.

Marriott is on a eco-tear, attempting to green its headquarters within a few years. Gone are the stacks of styrofoams, the legions of bottled water. Instead the company is joining the tappening movement by encouraging employees to drink tap water out of reusable bottles supplied by the company. Those who are failing to conform are getting blasted with much eye-rolling, enviro shaming. Also big on the agenda is cutting out electricity gluttony and packaging addiction. CFL light bulbs, low flow toilets, recycling, green cleaning solutions—impressive, Marriott!

What the company is doing at HQ is also informing practices for its hotels.

Turns out that there is a duo of enviro renegades within Marriott—new to the company—who are shaking the place up, transofrming the once-starchy behemoth into an eco trendsetter worthy of a Treehugger.com front pager.

Would readers like to see the story of these two green agitators in the magazine?

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