Staff of The Connacht Hotel, owned by the Connacht Hospitality Group, spent the afternoon of Thursday, June 8 giving back to the local community with a beach clean-up in Renville to mark World Oceans' Day.
Every year staff from the hotel make time to perform a beach clean-up, and the turnout was really encouraging with some 30 people helped picking up waste and giving Renville Beach a much-needed refresh.
On this occasion the hotel partnered with Plastic Oceans, a non-profit organisation which aims to end plastic pollution, and Findlater & Co, a leading Irish wine importer and distributor, while Coastal Reserve was also in attendance - a wine company with wines made with the environment very much in mind.
The Connacht Hotel, one of the first to do something like this with Coastal Reserve, says the beach clean-up is another example of the hotel taking its sustainability objectives seriously. This includes water-saving shower heads, EV chargers, re-usable coffee cups, and partnering with sustainability leaders Hometree to help plant an acre of Irish rainforest. It has also achieved the Green Hospitality Silver Award for all its sustainable achievements.
The hotel has a dedicated Green Team whose mission is to help the hotel achieve carbon-neutral status, and leader Natasha Chuyeva is full of praise for staff who helped 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," she says. "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.
“Each of us can always 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."
