• Harvesting our own Rain Water.
• 50 foot polytunnel, where we grow our own vegetables and herbs reducing supplier mileage.
• For every wedding that is booked, we plant 10 native trees on the land at Moyhill Community Garden www.hometree.com charity. Each tree offsets 1 tonne of carbon. In 2 years, we have planted 1700 trees offsetting 1700 tonnes of carbon. We used 135 tonne of carbon to run the hotel in 2018 therefore we are actually carbon positive!
• We stock organic bath & soap products in our rooms from the Voya range; there are no single use plastics in guest bedrooms.
• We send e-invoices to reduce the amount of paper.
• Our waste is segregated throughout the hotel to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill & have a strong recycling system in place.
• Charge point for electric cars, this is offered free of charge.
• We use compostable disposables and do not use any single use plastics.
• We do not sell any plastic bottles of soft drinks or water saving circa 20,000 plastic bottles being sold per annum.
• We have a no disposable cup policy for the staff.
• We offer guests who bring their own keepcup a 30c discount on tea/coffee.
• Any guests who arrive by bicycle get a free cup of tea/coffee.
• We continuously make efforts to get our suppliers to remove packaging and take it back with them.
• In 2018, the Eco-Barn that was built to replace the Marquee at Hotel Doolin for weddings. It is fully sound-proofed &has a state of the art sound system., it is an A-rated building with a sustainable heating and cooling system.
• We sell fairtrade coffee.
• We upcycle materials. In the Eco-Barn the bar counter is made from old whiskey barrels and the lampshades are made from old fisherman’s eel baskets from Sligo.
• Tissue used is made from old milk cartons.
• We buy 70% of our food produce from local suppliers (30 mile radius).
• At our 2017, 2018 & 2019 festivals, all attendees were given a We do not use any single use plastic glasses at the festivals.
• The Do Not Disturb Signs in the bedrooms are made from wood and not paper as is the case in most hotels.
• We utilise our own homemade compost in the polytunnel.
• We “adopt a hedgerow” – the team chooses an area of the local road and cleans out the hedgerow & do village clean-ups.
• We promote sustainable transport and encourage use of public transport and shuttle bus to the Cliffs of Moher.
• We make most of the wedding cakes in-house which reduces supplier mileage saving 6400 miles per year.
• The heating system in the hotel is an air to water heating system; it maintains an ambient temperature of 21.5 degrees in the bedrooms and corridors of the hotel. It has resulted in 68% reduction in oil in two years.