THE PLAZA
HOTELS

“To be sustainable is to think about the world we will leave to the lives that arrive in the future!”

The Plaza Hotels, Resorts & SPAs Brazil Chain practices and promotes the sustainability of tourism by helping to preserve the environment with some actions that contribute to reducing the impact on nature. Internal actions aimed at employees and campaigns involving clients. They stand out: awareness campaign for water economy; investments to exchange for Led lamps that reduce the consumption of electric energy, more; coupled discharges with reduction of waste of water; hot water cogeneration; contracted energy, which generates a controlled and monitored expense; automated controls for correct consumption; control and separation of waste, use of biodegradable cleaning products; sewage treatment plants; collection and separation of batteries, lamps, glasses and cooking oil for recycling; acquisition of new equipment within class “A” in the economy; heating with solar panel system; lectures on ecology and environment, among others.

Check out some of these actions developed in some of our units:

Bahia Plaza Hotel – Camaçari / BA

• Selective collection of garbage: the garbage produced at the Hotel is recycled and the money collected is donated to day care centers in the form of support
• Effluent treatment
• Lectures on ecology and environment
• Treatment and use of treated water: the hotel has a water treatment plant used in the bath and in the sinks. This treated water is used for irrigation of the grass, saving the water consumption of Embasa
• Elimination of the use of plastic bags in rooms, with the reduction of pollution in the environment
• Partnership with the Tamar Project: monthly contribution to help maintain the Tamar Project with the preservation of sea turtles. The Hotel offers spaces to Tamar Project team for training and awareness campaigns on the importance of sea turtle preservation
• Alert campaign for non-interaction with animals in order to protect both guests and visitors as well as the local fauna

Plaza Blumenau Hotel – Blumenau / SC

• Waste separation
• Sustainable employee awareness: the Hotel coordinates an improvement project with campaigns for conscious consumption of water and energy since 2016
• Mural of sustainability: where the Hotel announces information about company actions
• Participation in the movement “We Can” for the development of ODS (Sustainable Development Objective)
• Participation in the 100th Day movement
• Participation in the action “Giants of Ecology”
• Children’s Day event with socio-environmental characteristics
• Formation of the Improvement Groups – ECO Team – works with the Hotel’s utilities (water and electricity) analyzing and controlling the water and electricity numbers / bills; SEIKO Group – responsible for work on waste recycling. The team has created the “Internal Solid Waste Collection Center” and receives materials such as cardboard, cans, white sheets (reused sheets of printers), crystal plastics, newspapers, magazines and pet. For the implementation, the team underwent training and carried out a technical visit at the SAMAE Recycling Screening Center in Blumenau. In the last semester of 2017, for example, the Waste Center correctly allocated more than 1 tonne of waste for recycling (conscious destination), which became the value used to buy school materials for the employees’ children; Phoenix Group – responsible for replacing bulbs – generating more environmental resource savings

Plaza Caldas da Imperatriz – Santo Amaro da Imperatriz / SC

• Resort’s biologist Fernando Maciel Brüggemann is part of the Municipal Environment Council that discusses, analyzes and issues technical opinions on environmental issues in the municipality of Santo Amaro da Imperatriz
• Biologist Fernando Brüggemann is also a member of the Management Committee of the Cubatao River Basin, where his main responsibilities are: to arbitrate, at the first administrative level, conflicts related to water resources, including those related to the Watercourse Basin Committees tributaries; approve the Basin Water Resources plan; obligatorily submit the water resources plans of the river basin to the public hearing; develop and support initiatives in environmental education
• On the premises of the Plaza Caldas da Imperatriz, the Biologist accompanies and guides guests on ecological trails, Bird Watching and teaches ecological lectures for both guests and the community and researchers
• Agreements are maintained with the Federal University of Santa Catarina – monographs, thesis and master’s theses are developed with the supervision and supervision of the Biologist
• Brüggemann is the author of the book “A Naturalist Look at Serra do Tabuleiro” (fauna, flora and ecology), the result of more than twenty years of research and work in the Serra do Tabuleiro Park, where Caldas da Imperatriz
• Free distribution of the book for the entities, schools and teachers of the region around Serra do Tabuleiro Park, mainly for the municipality of Santo Amaro da Imperatriz. In the last edition were more than four hundred books donated to the elementary school teachers of the municipality of Santo Amaro da Imperatriz
• Interaction with the community through lectures and ecological trails with schools in the municipalities of Santo Amaro da Imperatriz and Aguas Mornas
• Contact with other biology professionals: every six months the Biologist teaches a lecture at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, where he reports on his professional experience and environmental activities at Plaza Caldas, where students of Biology can do internships.
• Separation of trash at the Resort and location for proper disposal of employees’ batteries, batteries and lamps. The material is disposed of in an accredited company.
• Lectures with employees on the subject socio-environmental responsibility: the team’s awareness makes the practice effective.
• Treatment of effluents: the Resort has an effluent treatment plant, or sanitary sewers, with management of a sanitary engineer responsible for the proper functioning of the process.
• Acquisition of biodegradable chemicals
• In the chimney of the boilers were installed filters that help reduce the emission of CO²
• All the wood used in the boilers comes from eucalyptus, reforestation wood (the Resort has an area of ​​50 hectares, in which it plants eucalyptus trees for this purpose)
• Reforms and adjustments to the water and electric energy economy: several reforms were made in apartments and bathrooms, as well as the exchange of electronic equipment such as televisions, air conditioners and light bulbs in order to reduce water and electricity consumption in the Resort
• Alert campaign for non-interaction with animals in order to protect both guests and visitors as well as the local fauna

Plaza São Rafael Hotel – Porto Alegre / RS

• Selective Waste Collection, with Separation of Special Waste
• Exclusive collection for batteries in common use
• Proper collection and disposal of cooking oil, a product that can attack nature.
• Separation of organic waste in partnership with a project of the Municipal Government of Porto Alegre, which allows to reuse organic waste in the form of fertilizer and / or food for pigs. About 700 needy families benefit from the processing of this waste into pig feed.
• Participation in the Free Energy Market for non-emission of gases, use of natural gas other than LPG, contributing to the environment with non-deforestation; solar heating by tubes of mineral water (own slope) to the swimming pool on the roof of the Hotel
• Sewage treatment station
• Use of biodegradable materials in the maintenance of equipment, contributing to the reduction of waste and pollution of soil, water and air.
• Back-flushing system of the hoods with high efficiency in the retention of grease vapors, guaranteeing low levels of grease and odors discharged into the atmosphere and detergent dosing automation system, external water replenishment and condensate drainage, which guarantees greater washing autonomy
• Replacement of mercury lamps by Led