The Rose Hotel

THE ROSE HOTEL

Shades of Green

The Rose Hotel is blazing a trail for sustainability in the hospitality industry through its engagement with the 50 Shades Greener programme

Tralee’s Rose Hotel has undertaken vigorous training to implement an environmental management system to reduce the hotel’s carbon emissions from an environmental and financial perspective, achieving a reduction in energy of 16 per cent and reducing food waste by 26 per cent since implementing the new system.

The Rose Hotel Executive Head Chef, Odran Lucey, was the driving force behind the hotel’s initiative. Engaging with 50 Shades Greener was the first step; this fully funded Green Business programme helped the team realise significant savings on energy, water and waste costs.

The 50 Shades Greener programme is an action-based programme, with implementable, concrete steps that guide businesses through the easiest way to understand, control and reduce business impact on the environment, improve their social sustainability and green their supply chain.

Through the programme, the hotel identified three areas where the hotel could improve its sustainability: waste disposal, the cost of energy, and climate change (making an impact through reducing water consumption).

The Rose Hotel established the industries baseline of use of energy, water and waste, and then identified opportunities for cost savings and reduction of utilities—easily defined by using the Fifty Shades Greener methodology.

In early 2021 Lucey implemented the environmental management system at The Rose Hotel with the suite of different reduction initiatives including: changing Odran Lucey, Executive Head Chef, The Rose Hotel

THE ROSE HOTEL IS COMMITTED TO CONTINUALLY STRIVE TO CREATE A MORE SUSTAINABLE OPERATION THROUGH THE CONSISTENT REDUCTION OF OUR CARBON FOOTPRINT ON A YEARLY BASIS

all bulbs to LED across the hotel; installing sensor lighting; replacing seals in all windows; collaborating with a local garden centre to dispose of coffee; provide training to all employees; forming a green team; and actively monitoring their utilities and CO2 emissions every month. In August 2021 The Rose Hotel was the first hotel in Kerry to complete the 50 Shades Greener Programme and became an approved Green Business. In April 2022 Lucey became the first person in the world to successfully complete a brand-new qualification for Environmental Sustainability Management in Hospitality.

GREEN JOURNEY “Our green journey is far from over,” says Lucey. “We will continue to engage with the Fifty Shades Greener Programme and strive for the Gold and Emerald Certificate. The Rose Hotel is committed to continually strive to create a more sustainable operation through the consistent reduction of our carbon footprint on a yearly basis.”

“We actively aim to reduce our waste including landfill and food waste and to consistently better our achievements year on year. Energy reduction and savings through the efficient monitoring of our lighting, equipment and heating system is forefront in the business priorities.

“Water conservation is a vital part of our daily operations and through the successful observation of staff and customer behaviour; we have been able to implement processes which ensure our water consumption is reduced.”