The Sutton Place Hotel Toronto is pleased to announce its involvement to comply with high standards of environmental responsibility. In keeping with environmental standards in Ontario, The Sutton Place Hotel has taken the following steps to conserve water, energy and recycle.

 1.  Recycle cardboard

 2.  Recycle office papers

 3.  Recycle food and organic waste

 4.  Recycle glass

 5.  Recycle aluminum and tin cans

 6.  Recycle plastic

 7.  Water Conservation:

      a)  Installed low flow shower heads (All renovated rooms 5th - 8th floors).

      b)  Preventative maintenance program to eliminate drippy faucets in

           public areas and kitchens in effect.

      c)  On going process to install water saving toilets.

 8.  Electricity Conservation:

  d)  Design free cooling program in building management software to

       minimize chiller use in shoulder cooling season.

  e)  Install Direct Digital Control of LGR meeting and banquet rooms to shut

       down areas during non use.

  f)   Replace 90-watt incandescent bulbs in guest rooms with 38-watt compact

       fluorescent bulbs (in progress).

  g)   Replace T12 fluorescent light in SPH bathrooms with T8 fluorescent lighting

       (in progress).

  h)    Replace garage T12 fluorescent lighting with T8 fluorescent lighting with  

       electronic ballasts (in progress).

  i)      Replace T12 fluorescent lighting in LGR kitchens with T8 fluorescent

       lighting with electronic ballasts (in progress).

  j)    Replace shell lamp 50 watt incandescent lighting with 9 watt compact 

       fluorescent (in progress).

  k)    Install Direct Digital Control of heat pump loop circulating system

       (in progress).

  l)   Brand new high efficiency boilers & pumps to be installed (in progress).

 m)  Install carbon monoxide monitoring system and garage fan control in SPH 

       garage (in progress).

  n)    Replacement motors to all be energy efficient (in progress).

  o)  Replacement fluorescent ballasts to be T8 electronic if possible,

       T8 magnetic if not.

  p)  All replacement light fixtures to compact fluorescent if possible.

  q)  Exterior incandescent flood lighting replaced with High Pressure Sodium

       lighting or compact fluorescent (in progress).

  r)    Turn off the escalators when there are no meetings (or very few) on the

       second floor of the hotel.

  s)  Turn off some of the decorative Lobby lighting on high-energy demand

       days (i.e. Very hot summer days) to reduce energy consumption and to

       reduce the heat these lighting fixtures can generate (which therefore

       reduced AC demand).

 9.  Natural Gas Conservation:

      Design program in building management software to maximize efficiency of

      SPH heating/domestic hot water boilers (New H.E. Boilers – in progress).

10. Implement reuse of sheet and towel policy in Hotel.  This is a program by

      which Guests/Customer are invited to consider reusing the sheets and towels

      for more than one use.

11. Behind the scenes collection of recyclable materials in Sutton Place Hotel

      guest rooms.

12. Convert discarded towels and linens into rags or donate to others.

13. Donate discarded mattresses.

14. Sell furniture and decorative items to staff or auction houses.

15. Guest room key cards are reused (after reprogramming).

16. Implement blue box collection program for La Grande Residents apartments'

      recyclable materials.

17. Recycle waste cooking oils to rendering company.

18. Recycle used batteries from smoke alarms & door locks

     (deliver to toxic materials dump)

19. We use the dehumidifier heat in pool room from the compressor to help heat

      up pool water.

20. Use of automatic feeder for pool chemicals.

21. Turn down or turn off A/C & lights on weekends & after weekday business

      hours in offices & meeting rooms.

22. Proud recipient of the Hotel Association of Canada (HAC) 4 Green Key

      ECOmmodation rating.