Our Environment
Our Environment
At the Royal Oak Hotel we are committed to continuous improvement of our environmental strategy.
Paper
As part of our awareness policy for the past six years instead of sending Christmas cards by post, which involves paper & printing, we email our Christmas wishes to our mailing list & donate the saved cost to our favoured charity, Plan UK.
Founded nearly 70 years ago, Plan is one of the largest child-centered community development organisations in the world. The scope of Plan’s activities is far-reaching. Their work affects the daily lives of countless ordinary people, from the children, the parents and the villages they help, to the supporters who give their contribution. Visit them at www.plan-uk.org
Recycling on site
We have a Re-cycling Centre with units supplied by Conwy Borough Council for Glass and Paper and Cardboard Recycling, situated in the rear car park – please come & make use of this facility.
Linen Policy
We have a guest reuse scheme in all our bedrooms. If guests want fresh towels daily they can put them in the bath – if not leave them on the towel rail – simple!
Food
We try and source all our ingredients from companies within a twenty mile radius. This not only cuts down on our carbon footprint, it also ensures that our guests get the freshest local ingredients on the market – we have found some amazing small traders this way and can work with them to ensure their small-holdings and farms have an economically stable future. Look out for the featured farms on the blackboards in the restaurant.
Refurbishments
We have ensured that all refurbished areas are fitted with compact fluorescent low energy lighting, all new toilets are low-flow and use half as much water to flush as standard toilets, and our building materials from the wood on the floor to the slate bar tops are all locally sourced.
Think Globally - Act Locally
This was the message we all first encountered on our TV screens and here at the Oak it is now the way we think about what we do everyday with every action we take.
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