上海酒店停止提供一次性日用品
Starting Monday, hotels in Shanghai are requested to stop offering disposable toiletry kits.
从本周一开始，上海市的酒店被要求停止向顾客提供一次性日用品。
Hotel guests are encouraged to use and reuse recyclable daily consumables during their stay, such as toothbrushes, combs, bath sponges, razors, nail files and shoe polish.
The move is stipulated in a set of regulations on garbage sorting and recycling that went into effect in Shanghai on Monday.
Under the new regulations, most household plastic wastes should be sorted and recycled. The city also encourages individuals and companies to reduce their use of disposable plastic products.
Kunlun Jing An hotel is one of those that answered the government call by not offering disposable toiletry kits unless asked.
The new measure by Shanghai's hotels will help reduce plastic waste since plastic is the main material used in disposable hotel toiletry kits, the hotel said.
"Shanghai is taking a lead in the country to combat plastic waste," said Gerd Knaust, general manager of Kunlun Jing An hotel. "Hotels, as a window of the city, should make contributions to sorting and recycling garbage and encourage more customers from around the world to lead an eco-friendly life."
The hotel has informed its potential customers of the change via online and offline channels.