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Marriott International to expand single-use-bottle reduction program

Marriott International Inc. is expanding its program to replace small, single-use toiletry bottles of shampoo, conditioner and bath gel in guestroom showers with larger, pump-topped bottles.

The hotelier has already phased in the use of larger bottles at about 1,000 properties in North America, and it expects most of its other hotels to make the switch by December 2020.

The expanded toiletry program, once fully implemented across the globe, will prevent about 500 million single-use bottles, or about 1.7 million pounds of plastic, from going into landfills each year. That amount represents a 30% annual plastic reduction for the company based on its current amenity plastic usage.

Marriott started replacing single-use toiletry bottles in about 450 select-service hotels in January 2018.

The initiative is part of Marriott's Serve 360: Doing Good in Every Direction platform, which includes reducing landfill waste by 45% by 2025 among its many goals.

The company also said that in July, it met its goal of diverting more than 1 billion plastic straws per year from landfills, as announced a year earlier.