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Leading Hotel Group to Use d2
Leading Hotel Group to Use d2.
About this update from Symphony Environmental Technologies Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n RNS Number : 2960L Symphony Environmental Tech. PLC 05 May 2010 \n \n\n \n \n 5 May 2010\n \nSYMPHONY ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES PLC (\"SYMPHONY\")\n \n \nLEADING HOTEL GROUP TO USE SYMPHONY'S d2W® ECO-FRIENDLY PLASTIC TECHNOLOGY\n \nThe hotel group NH Hoteles Group has announced that it is to use d2w® Controlled-life Plastic technology, developed by Symphony in all of its shampoo bottles, laundry bags, carrier bags, bin liners and branded packaging throughout its 393 hotels. This is the first environmental agreement between a major hotel group and a degradable plastics company. \n \nThe initiative will be launched today at the NH Harrington Hall Hotel in South Kensington, London, by Gabriele Burgio, Chairman and CEO of Spanish-based NH Hoteles and Michael Laurier, CEO of Symphony Environmental Technologies Plc. It is designed to promote eco-friendly, sustainable plastic technology throughout the hotel and catering industry. Certificates of Environmental Excellence will be presented to Gabriele Burgio to mark this achievement.\n \nNH Hoteles is the third largest business hotel chain in Europe with three luxury hotels in London. It will co-operate with Symphony to show companies in the catering and hotel sectors the environmental benefits of Controlled-life Plastic technology, instead of the normal plastic or other forms of degradable plastic currently used. The NH Hoteles Group currently has 399 hotels in 24 countries across Europe, America and Africa providing over 60,000 rooms, with another 45 hotels under construction.\n \nSymphony has developed a special additive - d2w® - which, when added to most ordinary plastics at manufacture, alters their behaviour and gives them all the properties of oxo-biodegradable plastic. \n \nPlastics made with this d2w® additive become intelligent plastic, as they are programmed to degrade and then biodegrade over a specific time period. They are programmed with a service-life during manufacture: from as little as a few months up to five years. They will then degrade and biodegrade automatically, without any human intervention, either on land or water. When it degrades and biodegrades, it does so completely, without leaving any fragments or harmful residues. It can also be reused and recycled like ordinary plastics and w...