Housekeeping
This department is instrumental
in ensuring the cleanliness of the hotel and maintaining
facilities in guestrooms, offices and public areas to provide
maximum guest satisfaction.
Environmental
Impacts
To maintain the cleanliness
in the hotel, housekeeping department consumes different
type of cleaning agents, most of them may not be environmental
friendly in nature and also contributes a significant amount
of soiled linen for laundry. Some of the significant environmental
aspects caused due to housekeeping operations in the hotel
are listed
Significant environmental aspects and
impacts ofhousekeeping department
|
Various
activities in Housekeeping |
Aspects |
Environmental
Impact |
Significant
Aspect |
| Cleaning
of guest rooms, public areas, carpets, furniture,
metal wares etc |
Generation
of solid waste, Consumption of hazardous chemicals
as a cleaning agents |
Land
pollution
|
Release
of non biodegradable chemicals |
| Replenishing
the guest supplies in the rooms |
Generation
of used plastic bottles, soaps and soiled linen |
Land
pollution
|
Plastic
waste |
|
