The Salt Lake City Marriott Customer Service Center, home to Marriott Vacation Club International’s (MVCI) Owner Services located in Salt Lake City, Utah along with four other Marriott International business units including Marriott Rewards, Marriott Global Incentives and Gift Cards, Marriott Global Reservations & Customer Care and The Ritz-Carlton, announced today its office-wide effort designed to reduce both its environmental footprint and energy costs.
The “Green Fair” begins today at the Salt Lake City Marriott Customer Service Center, located at 310 Bearcat Drive, where more than 18 local businesses and non-profit organizations will participate in the event by bringing products and information to help educate associates and demonstrate ways to properly recycle and reduce energy consumption.
More than 900 Marriott associates will receive free, re-usable and eco-friendly mugs and re-usable shopping totes to encourage conservation. Throughout the course of the day, associates will also have the opportunity to view a model workspace which incorporates a thorough recycling program and demonstrates ways to properly recycle and reduce energy consumption in conference rooms, break rooms and work spaces. Additionally, associates will be able to calculate their individual carbon footprint in a computer lab and learn about green products that help reduce their carbon emissions.
“This is just one step toward Marriott International’s efforts to preserve the environment, acting both locally here in Salt Lake City and across the Marriott Vacation Club International division,” said Ron Essig, vice president, global owner products and services for Marriott Vacation Club International. “With more than 900 associates at the Salt Lake City Marriott Customer Service Center, if we all do our part, we can definitely make a difference–both at the office and at home.”
This office-wide initiative comes on the heels of Marriott Vacation Club International’s corporate headquarters “MVCI Green Initiative” launch in February 2008 that incorporated a robust recycling program and demonstrated ways to reduce energy consumption. In Orlando, Fla. more than 900 MVCI associates traded in plastic utensils and Styrofoam cups and plates for their own “Green Initiative” branded thermal travel mug and tumbler. Additionally, plastic utensils were replaced in all break rooms with SpudWare™, a durable set of utensils made from potatoes and 100% biodegradable within an average of 100 days.
During the fair, associates will enjoy a potato and salad bar luncheon served in effort to introduce the use of “veggie ware” utensils made of 100 percent biodegradable materials. The impact on the environment will have an immediate effect eliminating nearly 98,000 pieces of plastic waste from landfills.
The Marriott Customer Service Center is utilizing the services of The Sutta Company to provide and service specific recycling containers which will be dedicated to paper, plastic and aluminum (co-mingled recycling). The Sutta Company is a full service recycling company with 30 years of experience and the resulting ability to engineer and design custom recycling systems.
