The Connacht Hotel marked this year’s World Ocean Day by giving back to the community with a beach clean up.
Some 30 volunteers spent the afternoon of Thursday, June 8, World Ocean Day, cleaning up the beach at Renville, as staff from the hotel do each year.
The Connacht Hotel have pushed for sustainability, including the establishment of a Green Team, whose mission is to help the hotel achieve carbon-neutral status.
Green Team Lead Natasha Chuyeva was full of praise for The Connacht Hotel staff who turned up to help out at the beach clean in Renville.
“Seeing all these people come together to do good for the local beach is a truly inspiring thing.”
“It’s easy to think about the climate crisis as a huge problem that’s too big to tackle, but small changes when done collectively can have a huge impact. This beach clean is proof of that.
“We can always each do more to think about the environment – and there are always eco-friendly alternatives that we can adopt.”
“The beach clean-up was a huge success, and it was great to partner with our friends at Coastal Reserve, Plastic Oceans, and Findlater,” Natasha said.
For the beach clean-up, The Connacht Hotel partnered with Plastic Oceans, a non-profit whose aim is to end plastic pollution, and they also teamed up with Findlater & Co., Ireland’s leading wine importer and distributor.
Coastal Reserve were also in attendance, and they are a wine company whose wines are made with the environment very much in mind; The Connacht Hotel are one of the first to do something like this with Coastal Reserve.
The Connacht Hotel offers water-saving shower heads, EV chargers, re-usable coffee cups, and has partnered with sustainability leaders Hometree to help plant an acre of Irish rainforest.
They have also achieved the Green Hospitality Silver Award for all their sustainable achievements.
