New Green500 award winners announced Sept 2009

Crowne Plaza London - The City Platinum Award
Platinum award

This is the first hotel to achieve this award. Crowne Plaza has reduced its energy consumption by implementing several campaigns across the business. One of the campaigns has been to engage its guests, simply by asking them to request that their sheets and towels be replaced, rather than doing so automatically, resulting in month on month cost savings of 25% since the campaign began.

Other initiatives include, engaging the hotel staff by having a Green Team committee, benchmarking the hotels green commitment against other properties in the group, separating waste, prior to collection, thereby maximising the amount that can be re-cycled and minimising land fill, and implementing a sustainable, integrated energy management system.

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Southern
Platinum award

Southern provides rail services in south London, and between central London and the south coast, through east and west Sussex and Surrey and parts of Kent and Hampshire.  Southern’s initiatives include the ground breaking third rail regenerative braking  scheme, numerous energy saving initiatives at depots and stations, implementation of paper recycling at Victoria Station and at key locations in partnership with Metro Newspapers, and environmental responsibilities and awareness within the Company.

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Bio Products Laboratory
Gold award

Displaying rapid progress in becoming a green organisation, Bio Products Laboratory has implemented exercises to raise the environmental awareness of all staff; as a result, each building within the company now has its own energy conservation team. Green procurement has also been an area of focus for the company, successfully liaising with its facilities management contractors in order to ensure environmental consideration is given to key products and services.

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