How is it possible

We were in Ewing, New Jersey this weekend and stayed at a Courtyard by Marriot. It was a long drive and required a bottle of water and a soda or two. Before we checked out, i was tidying up the car and thought i would take the bottle and can inside to have them recycled. I asked the woman at the front desk if they recycled. I didn't even think that the answer would be anything other than yes.

But ack. she said no unfortunately they do not. I took my cans and bottle to recycle at home said that i couldn't believe it. This hotel was immediately next door to what i thought was a NJ Dept of Envir Protection office. In this day and age i am still amazed that a chain of hotels the size of marriots doesn't do the seemingly easy task of recycling. I imagine they have the opportunity to recycle hundreds of pounds of cans and bottles each year. They have vending machines for guests. Guests bring their own beverages. I know as we were early arrivals and the cleaning staff were still cleaning rooms from the night before, that i saw at least one case of beer bottles in the hall. Now i know that these probably just went into the trash.

The hotel was so proud to be smoke free, as it had signs everywhere that reminded you of the fact. Hey thats great. But why not be proud of recycling too.

Some efforts could be done sooooo easily.