5 luxury hotels and resorts to check out for a plastic-free holiday

Hong Kong offers easy and direct access to some of the best holiday destinations in the world. With pristine beaches and prime oceanfront views, no one wants to think about the roughly 300 million tonnes of plastic we produce each year that gets tossed into landfills … and our oceans.

If you are conscious of your carbon footprint and selective about where to book your next holiday, consider a new batch of luxury, eco-friendly hotels that have banished single-use plastic from their premises, while implementing sustainable initiatives to protect the oceans and their surroundings. Here are our top five suggestions for the ultimate luxurious plastic-free holiday.

akyra TAS Sukhumvit Bangkok 

This boutique facility, billed as Asia’s first plastic-free hotel, rebuffs any single-use plastics. Opened in May 2018, the luxury 50-room accommodation provides guests with stainless steel water bottles which can be refilled at any time. Self-service drinkable water is located on every floor. Toiletries are locally manufactured in celadon containers filled with essential oil-based products with biodegradable bin bags for rubbish. Shopping bags in the wardrobe are available to encourage guests to refuse plastic bags while out shopping.

Alila Manggis Bali 

This secluded seaside resort in east Bali adheres to a strict zero waste policy to ensure all its waste is diverted to an integrated sustainable resource recovery facility. The resort has a full composting system for all organic waste, a permaculture organic garden to help develop sustainable and self-sufficient agricultural ecosystem on location, and converts uneconomic waste plastic into a light green crude oil to be distilled into diesel, kerosene and petrol for reuse in the hotels. Plastic-free measures are implemented across the group’s other locations with eco-friendly water bottling systems and bamboo straws for guests.

Song Saa Private Island Cambodia