Premier Inn to Eliminate Unnecessary Single-Use Plastics by 2025

Whitbread, owner of the Premier Inn brand and operator of hundreds of restaurants in the UK, has unveiled plans to eliminate the use of unnecessary single-use plastics by 2025.

To achieve this, Whitbread is carrying out a review of plastic and packaging across its supply chain and will work with suppliers to find alternatives to unnecessary single-use items.

Whitbread already has a well-established track-record of minimising the use of single-use plastics. Last year it became one of the first companies to ditch the use of plastic straws and stirrers, while Premier Inn has never used miniature shower products.

Once realised, the latest move will mean the removal of hundreds of millions of pieces of unnecessary single-use plastic, including instantly recognisable consumer-facing products such as sauce sachets, and crucially, behind-the-scenes plastics such as food and textile packaging.

All unnecessary products will be eliminated. Those which are still deemed necessary, such as in-room single portions of milk, will be reviewed in order to be reduced, replaced with recyclable alternatives or made from recycled plastic where possible.

Premier Inn Managing Director, Simon Ewins, said, “As with any meaningful commitment to change – it won’t happen overnight but we’re unwavering in our belief that eliminating unnecessary single-use plastics is absolutely the right thing to do for our business, our guests and the environment.”

See also: Hotel Waste, Single-Use Plastic and Climate Change - Interview with WWF.

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