Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Wednesday, Jun 05, 2002
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Environment Top hotels don `green' colour Our Bureau
BANGALORE, June 4 FREE vehicle emissions tests, planting of saplings, fashion shows, exhibitions and quizzes... so what's new? For just today, green is the colour and anything of that shade should make some difference. And that's how some of Bangalore's top hotels, bitten by the June 5 bug, are making their statements for World Environment Day. If it's free emission tests you are looking for, check out the dates at the Tata-owned Taj West End. Or go past the Windsor Bridge to ITC's Windsor Manor & Sheraton Towers. The West End, along with its sibling, The Taj Residency and Gateway, plans to promote eco-friendly products, practices and services and take a swipe of its kind at pollution of air, water, noise and soil. The 130-year-old rain tree seems to stand testimony to a picturesque West End's green conscience. Meanwhile, the hotel has set out to clearing its 22-acre premises of non-biodegradable waste. Staff and guests at the group hotels will get seeds of flowering plants. The Residency held a one-day environ exhibition and roped in companies making `green' products— heaters from Tata BP Solar, seeds from Indo American Hybrid, Gaia, World Wide Fund for Nature, organic food and products from Nature Store, plus `green' cosmetics, cleaning items and cookers. The hotel plans to carry on the campaign beyond June 5 through community awareness campaigns on growing plants, making kitchen waste into rich compost. Rainwater harvesting and recycling of old paper to replace plastic bags are next on the cards. Gateway is promoting the green concept by donating 500 saplings at Frank Anthony Public School. At ITC's Windsor Manor Sheraton & Towers, it will be a week-long celebration of the environment. Besides a complimentary emission test as a welcome gesture, the hotel will inaugurate its effluent treatment plant. Saplings will be planted across Bangalore and there will be awareness and quiz programmes for the staff. `Wealth from waste' is the theme of a fashion show that Windsor Manor is hosting on June 8. Designs and garments from Namrata G will be talking of `reduce, reuse and recycle.'
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