Most hotel rooms contain a minifridge. Manufacturing, operating, and disposing of minifridges is environmentally unsustainable, and costs money. Given the potential to reduce carbon emissions by reducing the number of hotel minifridges, we ask whether it is necessary to provide minifridges in...

Tourism produces 35 m tons of solid waste annually. For waste reduction efforts to be effective, empirical baseline measures of waste production and waste production patterns are needed. This study analyses the waste profiles of hotels and restaurants using national waste data. Results indicate...