As one of the leading 5-star hotel properties in the country, with 570 rooms and 9 dining outlets, along with a Grand Ballroom that can accommodate up to 4,000 guests, the Manila Marriott has taken to heart its responsibility towards introducing sustainability practices that can help reduce environmental impact while offering guests that same level of luxury during their stay.

Launched in 2015, its Sustainable Seafood project introduced sustainably caught seafood choices in the menus of the Marriott Café, CRU Steakhouse, and in their banquet dining. This led the hotel to use and serve a total volume of 71% certified sustainable seafood for the past three years.

The hotel has been avidly supporting organic farming, an initiative led by Marriott culinary team under Executive Chef Meik Brammer. The hotel has partnered with local farmers in Batangas where the team sources a variety of locally grown and harvested herbs and vegetables.

Manila Marriott has also been committed to its monthly food donation, meticulously prepared by the hotel’s culinary team, to the underprivileged communities identified by Philippine Red Cross. The hotel has donated food to a total of 17, 534 beneficiaries, particularly children, pregnant women, and the elderly.

As recently announced by Marriott International President and CEO Arne Sorenson, the hotel chain, which is the largest in the world, aims to eliminate 500 million small toiletry bottles from its current plastic amenity usage. Marriott hotels worldwide have joined the movement and are innovating ways to reduce plastic waste and further promote sustainability.

For its part, refillable glass bottles will soon replace the 65,000 single-use plastic bottles in the hotel rooms. A drop-off drive with employees has also yielded 12,000 plastic bottles during the Philippine Sustainability Month launch, which, through a partnership with the Envirotech Waste Recycling Inc., has converted thousands of plastic wastes into hundreds of school chairs that were donated to the Philippine School of the Deaf in Pasay. Some benches made from recycled plastics are also displayed around the hotel vicinity to spread awareness about recycling among guests.

The annual Philippine Sustainability Month is a nationwide campaign spearheaded by Manila Marriott’s Executive Chef Meik Brammer that aims to raise awareness on sustainability while creating opportunities for livelihood.

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