The latest lifestyle, fashion and travel trends
The latest lifestyle, fashion and travel trends
One of the best things about visiting a hotel is the complimentary shampoos and bars of soap. Not only are they cute, but they’re also practical for frequent travellers.
Yet, if you don’t take these toiletries with you, many hotels end up just throwing them in the rubbish. To counter this waste, Hilton Hotels has launched an initiative to supply its half-used soaps to people in need.
The hotel chain has teamed up with Clean the World, an organisation that collects used soaps from hotels, melt the used soaps, sanitises them and creates new bars of soap for those that need them.
The chain will collect the used bars of soaps from guest rooms and supply them to Clean the World, which will recycle them into one million new bars of soap by October 15 this year.
This isn’t the first sustainable initiative by the chain, as it already recycles soap, lotion and shampoo bottles to be reused for travel bottles of hygiene products.
In 2018, Hilton Hotels also announced it planned to reduce its carbon emissions by 61 per cent through reducing its plastic use and water consumption.
London’s best sustainable restaurants
1/8 Cub
Cub is the joint venture of cocktail legend Ryan Chetiyawardana and chef Douglas McMaster, who earned a reputation for sustainable dining at Brighton’s zero-waste restaurant Silo. As well as purchasing their food from renewable sources the restaurant itself is made from reused materials. The tables are ingeniously crafted from recycled yoghurt pots, while the air inside the venue is filtered through the breathable clay used to construct the walls. The food is absolutely delicious too and the elegant menu caters just as well to meat eaters, vegans and vegetarians. A must try.
2/8 Spring
Pub fans are spoiled for choice when it comes to boozers in Islington but The Duke Of Cambridge offers something unique. The St Peter’s Street setting is Britain’s only certified organic pub, with its focus firmly on serving sustainable food. The pub has teamed up with family-run Devon farm Riverford to put together frequently-rotating menus using organically sourced ingredients and their appreciation of fresh, seasonal food certainly pays dividends.
3/8 Riverford at The Duke Of Cambridge
Pub fans are spoiled for choice when it comes to boozers in Islington but The Duke Of Cambridge offers something unique. The St Peter’s Street setting is Britain’s only certified organic pub, with its focus firmly on serving sustainable food. The pub has teamed up with family-run Devon farm Riverford to put together frequently-rotating menus using organically sourced ingredients and their appreciation of fresh, seasonal ingredients certainly pays dividends.
4/8 Georgian House in Pimlico
Five star boutique B&B Georgian House in Pimlico is doing its bit to help the environment by introducing an upcycled afternoon tea. The kitchen set itself the difficult task of fashioning delicious dishes from discarded ingredients earlier this year and the results are impressive. The six-piece menu features toast topped with unused mushroom stems and lardon cuttings, while the cheese and thyme scone on offer is made with crumbs gathered from the cheeseboard. Even the drink is upcycled, with the ‘Re-invigorated Prosecco’ cocktail made from flat Prosecco with East London Liquor Gin.
5/8 Poco
Pritchard’s Road tapas bar Poco is incredibly committed to serving sustainable and organic food. Ingredients are sourced from producers within 100 miles of the restaurant and Poco also upholds the tightest restrictions on food waste. The kitchen composts between 95% and 100% of unused goods and weigh their waste every day to keep strict tabs on usage. Having to haul bin bags around in this way after service must be annoying for their staff at times but it’s certainly an admiral stance to take. It also no surprise that the restaurant was named Sustainable Restaurant of the year at the Food Made Good awards in 2016.
6/8 Tiny Leaf
Tiny Leaf create inspired dishes out of organic surplus food stock provided by local wholesalers and represent the first zero waste vegetarian restaurant in London. The unusual approach means chefs serve up a diverse menu, using unsold fruit and veg to create something new and exciting every day. The Borough restaurant, based out of Mercato Metropolitano in Borough, also stocks the sustainable Toast beer made from surplus bread.
7/8 The Coal Shed
This is a steak restaurant for meat-lovers with big appetites. Yet surprisingly, it’s the pleasant smell of seafood that wafts from the kitchen when you first walk in. The meat is sourced from farms that specialise in rare breeds. This means the beef is slower-grown and predominantly grass-fed, which leads to more depth to the flavour as well as being more humane.
Paul Winch-Furness
8/8 Coin Laundry
Offering more variety of dishes than a typical gastro-pub but more relaxed than a restaurant, Coin Laundry is ideal for groups of friends to catch up over tasty bar snacks, sharing plates, home-brewed beers and tasty cocktails.
1/8 Cub
Cub is the joint venture of cocktail legend Ryan Chetiyawardana and chef Douglas McMaster, who earned a reputation for sustainable dining at Brighton’s zero-waste restaurant Silo. As well as purchasing their food from renewable sources the restaurant itself is made from reused materials. The tables are ingeniously crafted from recycled yoghurt pots, while the air inside the venue is filtered through the breathable clay used to construct the walls. The food is absolutely delicious too and the elegant menu caters just as well to meat eaters, vegans and vegetarians. A must try.
2/8 Spring
Pub fans are spoiled for choice when it comes to boozers in Islington but The Duke Of Cambridge offers something unique. The St Peter’s Street setting is Britain’s only certified organic pub, with its focus firmly on serving sustainable food. The pub has teamed up with family-run Devon farm Riverford to put together frequently-rotating menus using organically sourced ingredients and their appreciation of fresh, seasonal food certainly pays dividends.
3/8 Riverford at The Duke Of Cambridge
Pub fans are spoiled for choice when it comes to boozers in Islington but The Duke Of Cambridge offers something unique. The St Peter’s Street setting is Britain’s only certified organic pub, with its focus firmly on serving sustainable food. The pub has teamed up with family-run Devon farm Riverford to put together frequently-rotating menus using organically sourced ingredients and their appreciation of fresh, seasonal ingredients certainly pays dividends.
4/8 Georgian House in Pimlico
Five star boutique B&B Georgian House in Pimlico is doing its bit to help the environment by introducing an upcycled afternoon tea. The kitchen set itself the difficult task of fashioning delicious dishes from discarded ingredients earlier this year and the results are impressive. The six-piece menu features toast topped with unused mushroom stems and lardon cuttings, while the cheese and thyme scone on offer is made with crumbs gathered from the cheeseboard. Even the drink is upcycled, with the ‘Re-invigorated Prosecco’ cocktail made from flat Prosecco with East London Liquor Gin.
5/8 Poco
Pritchard’s Road tapas bar Poco is incredibly committed to serving sustainable and organic food. Ingredients are sourced from producers within 100 miles of the restaurant and Poco also upholds the tightest restrictions on food waste. The kitchen composts between 95% and 100% of unused goods and weigh their waste every day to keep strict tabs on usage. Having to haul bin bags around in this way after service must be annoying for their staff at times but it’s certainly an admiral stance to take. It also no surprise that the restaurant was named Sustainable Restaurant of the year at the Food Made Good awards in 2016.
6/8 Tiny Leaf
Tiny Leaf create inspired dishes out of organic surplus food stock provided by local wholesalers and represent the first zero waste vegetarian restaurant in London. The unusual approach means chefs serve up a diverse menu, using unsold fruit and veg to create something new and exciting every day. The Borough restaurant, based out of Mercato Metropolitano in Borough, also stocks the sustainable Toast beer made from surplus bread.
7/8 The Coal Shed
This is a steak restaurant for meat-lovers with big appetites. Yet surprisingly, it’s the pleasant smell of seafood that wafts from the kitchen when you first walk in. The meat is sourced from farms that specialise in rare breeds. This means the beef is slower-grown and predominantly grass-fed, which leads to more depth to the flavour as well as being more humane.
Paul Winch-Furness
8/8 Coin Laundry
Offering more variety of dishes than a typical gastro-pub but more relaxed than a restaurant, Coin Laundry is ideal for groups of friends to catch up over tasty bar snacks, sharing plates, home-brewed beers and tasty cocktails.
As well as making recycled soap, Clean the World also makes hygiene kits for homeless shelters around the world.
Hilton is just one of the many hotels to follow the eco-conscious route, with a number of luxury hotels already ‘going green’ to help save the planet.