Sustainability
SHARED COMMITMENT
On this page we've highlighted all of the positive steps we've taken to provide a sustainable hotel.
Newquay Hotels is a family business and maintains a strong commitment to the environment and to the local economic and social community. As a company, we recognise that our operation has an impact on the environment and are committed to improving our performance through a number of policies and practices in order to ensure environmental, economic and societal sustainability.
In return for our commitment we ask you, our visitors, to also do your bit for the environment by following these five steps to being a sustainable visitor.
- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
- Get out of the car!
- Stay Local, Eat Local, Buy Local, See Local
- Turn off
- Follow the Countryside Code
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
As a large Cornish Company we are passionate about our local, natural environment and are committed to improving our environmental performance by:
- Complying with all relevant environmental legislation and industry codes of practice
- Actively working towards reducing environmental impact and prevent pollution that occurs as a result of our operation
- Considering the concerns of interested parties such as guests, members, local residents, employees and regulators
- Setting objectives and targets to drive continual improvement programmes, and regularly review environmental performance to ensure success
- Ensuring all employees and sub contractors are aware of this policy and trained in their environmental responsibilities
- Engaging suppliers and guests in environmental initiatives which support the environmental aims of the company
- Making this policy available to our customers and the public on demand
- This policy will be implemented within the framework of an Environmental Management System designed to meet the requirements of BS8555.
RECENT IMPROVEMENTS
We actively support the local environment, economic and social communities. By investing in the hotels and constantly improving facilities on a regular basis, we ensure that wasteful and non-efficient facilities are either repaired or removed and replaced with efficient and waste / energy minimising models. Over the last few years we have been pro-actively monitoring and reducing our energy consumption within the hotel. We have invested a large amount of money purchasing efficient equipment and training our staff to use them resourcefully.
EAT CORNISH
We are committed to buying local produce and using Cornish suppliers:
Beverages - St. Austell Brewery, including the Cornish Rattler Cider and Camel Valley Wines.
Ales - Skinners Brewery
Water – Cornish Pure Blue Water
Meat - Brian Etheringtons, Redruth
Fruit and Vegetables – Newquay Fruit Sales and West Country Fruit Sales
Fresh Fish - Matthew Stevens, St.Ives
Dairy - Lillie Brothers, Falmouth
Dry Stores - Chaffins of Redruth
Whilst you are here, why not visit a local farm shop for fresh, local produce:
Bre-Pen Farm Shop, Mawgan Porth. Tel: 01637 860420
Padstow Farm Shop, Trethillick Farm, Padstow Tel: 01841 533060
Carruan Farm Centre, St Minver, Wadebridge. Tel: 01208 869584
Great Gargus Farm, Tregony, Truro Tel: 01872 530274
CARBON OFFSETTING
It has become clear that all of us need to make our best effort to reduce our dangerous carbon emissions created from day to day life. However, it is equally clear that it is not going to be possible for any resident in the UK to completely eliminate their personal carbon footprint – this is where carbon offsetting comes in.
Carbon offsetting works by helping both individuals and businesses to assess their carbon footprint, then invest in projects around the world that save the emissions of, or absorb, an equivalent amount of CO2. Through this process, they balance out their unavoidable carbon emissions and become CarbonZero.
Visit co2balance to see how you can reduce and offset your carbon emissions ethically and credibly. Click here to visit the co2balance website.
FURTHER INFORMATION
"We are proud to be a member of CoaST, a tiny but tenacious social enterprise whose aim is to work towards one planet tourism; a type of tourism which provides benefits to the people, economy and environment of Cornwall, and which operates within our social, financial and environmental means."
Click here to visit the Coast website.
Click here for more information on Green Tourism in Cornwall.
