A CNN report about the first Sustainability Lab in Maldives

This link arrived in my Gmail Inbox yesterday due to my subscription to Google Alert “Maldives”.

Fairmont Maldives, Sirru Fen Fushi - first resort to install a Sustainability Lab
 

EXCERPTS:

… the Sustainability Lab, which offers guests a front-row seat to one of the biggest challenges faced by Maldives – plastic waste.

… Opened in early 2022, it’s the first center of its kind in the country. Set just steps away from the resort’s arrival dock inside a building made of upcycled shipping containers, it’s filled with specialized machinery that turns plastic waste into bespoke souvenirs, furniture and supplies for local schools.

… “Guests can actually not just hear the words, ‘oh, the hotel recycles plastic,’ they can come and they can see it. They can visualize it. They can actually be a part of the process. And we do try to make it as fun as we can.”

Read full report at this link.