To reduce its environmental footprint, Marriott is committed to:

• Reducing its fuel and water consumption by an additional 25 percent per available room over the next 10 years.

• Installing solar power at up to 40 hotels by 2017.

• Expanding existing “reduce, reuse, recycle” programs already in place in 90 percent of hotels to consistently include guest and meeting rooms, beginning with pilot hotels across all brands in Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Minneapolis and Washington, D.C.

For more than 20 years, Marriott has been actively involved in energy conservation.  Over the last decade, its hotels worldwide have replaced 450,000 light bulbs with fluorescent lighting, introduced linen reuse programs, and installed 400,000 low-flow showerheads and toilets. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded Marriott with its 2009 Sustained Excellence award and placed the ENERGY STAR® label on more than 275 of its hotels (the most of any hotel company).

Source: Marriott