Muscat: Centara Muscat Hotel Oman has revived its highly successful 2019 ‘Plastics Only, Please’ (P-O-P) campaign to raise awareness and take action against plastic waste. The campaign coincides with World Environment Day (5th June) and Ocean Day (8th June).
As part of the campaign, all Centara’s properties in Oman will feature P-O-P sculptures – wire sea life creations – that serve as bins for plastic waste. Guests and staff are encouraged to collect plastic refuse and “feed” it to the P-O-P Sealife-creatures. At the end of each week, Centara’s waste management teams will remove the contents, sorting the recyclable plastics, and deliver it to the local recycling facilities.
In 2019, these ‘plastic-eating’ wire sculptures collected over 400 kilograms of plastic waste. This helped to lessen the burden of plastic in local landfills and ensure that reusable plastic materials were recycled and reused properly rather than thrown away.
“At Centara, we are deeply committed to sustainability and believe in doing our part to not only raise awareness about environmental issues, but to put those ideas into action,” said David Good, EVP - Hotel Operations for Centara Hotels & Resorts. “After the success of our ‘Plastics Only, Please’ campaign in 2019 at our beachfront properties, we are looking forward to achieving even greater results this year with a new range of P-O-P sculptures to be featured across all Centara’s properties. We encourage guests, staff and anyone who happens upon plastic waste to help support our initiative and #BeatPlasticPollution together.”
The P-O-P sculptures are a creative and eye-catching way to raise awareness of the problem of plastic waste. They also serve as a reminder that we all have a role to play in reducing our reliance on single-use plastics.
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