First all-electric Premier Inn hotel powered entirely by renewables opens in Swindon

Whitbread PLC, the UK’s largest hospitality group and owner of Premier Inn, recently announced the opening of Premier Inn Swindon Town Centre – the first of a new generation of new-build Premier Inn hotels that will operate with 100% renewable energy. Learnings from the hotel’s design and operation will inform an emissions-reducing strategy for Premier Inn’s hotel estate across the UK and Ireland and will contribute to Whitbread’s target to remove mains gas connections across its estate by 2040 wherever possible. The hotel’s innovative features include: An energy-efficient air-to-water Mitsubishi…

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New national drinking water scheme backed by water companies to cut plastic bottle use by millions

In an ambitious drive to help fight plastic waste, water companies will join forces with the Refill campaign to create a national network of high street retailers, coffee shops, businesses and local authorities offering new refill stations for the public to top-up their water bottles for free in every major city and town in England by 2021. People will be able to use an app on their phone to find out where the nearest refill point is, or look out for special signs in shop windows. As well as being…

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