Another major hotel chain is getting rid of travel-sized toiletries

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business

Updated 11:30 AM ET, Wed January 22, 2020

New York (CNN Business)Accor Hotels is the latest global hotel chain to eliminate travel-sized toiletries from its rooms.

The company, which owns 40 brands including Ibis, Novotel, the Fairmont and Mondrian, announced Wednesday that it's removing individual tubes of shampoo, conditioner and bath gel from its 340,000 guest rooms. It's part of Accor's broader environmental campaign that includes getting rid of all single-use plastic items at its 5,000 properties.

Accor (ACCYY) is replacing the plastic toiletries with either wall dispensers or glass, bulk-sized toiletries by the end of the year. The chain is also replacing a number of common hotel items usually made from plastic, including keycards, laundry bags and cups, with materials made from "relevant alternatives," according to the statement. That change take place across all of its hotels in 2022.

More than 200 million single-use plastic items are used annually at Accor's hotels. The company said in a press release that the changes are part of an effort that focuses on "reducing environmental impacts and strengthening efforts to combat plastic pollution of the world's oceans and other natural environments."

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