Sustainability Practices – boraboraibizamalta.com

SUSTAINABILITY
PRACTICES

At Bora Bora Resort, we are committed to reducing our environmental impact and integrating sustainability into our daily operations. Our Sustainability Management System (SMS) is a structured framework that focuses on processes to reduce our environmental impact, on our socio-cultural responsibility, on our economic sustainability as well as on the well being of our internal and external customers; our team and our guests.

We believe that action speak louder than words, thus we focus on a regular sustainable objectives followed by a feasible action plan to achieve the results within the time frame set.

Recent Environmental Actions

Eliminated all single use Shampoo sachets/bottles and Body Soap sachets, replaced with a high quality Hair & Body Wash refillable dispensers in each bathroom and public restrooms.
Reduced the consumption of individually packed portion yoghurts, replaced with bulk packaged yoghurt.
Introduced a complete waste management system that segregates glass, mixed waste, recyclable waste, organic waste, BCRS and batteries.
Reduced all individually packed jams and replaced with bulk packaged jams and marmalades.
Introduced Sustainable Cocktails in our menus, using techniques to reuse citrus zest and fruit trimmings into crafty drinks with distinctive flavours.
Replaced a significant part of the cleaning detergents form individually packed to a pump-based dosage system into refillable bottles.

Recent Social Actions

Organised ‘Let us serve you’ lunches for our staff cooked by the management team, encouraging clothes donation from all team members that will go towards a charity foundation.
Organised a Beach Clean up over a stretch of the Coastal Area in St Paul’s Bay.
Donating BCRS vouchers to a charity organisation.

What’s next

We plan to eliminate the use of 40,000 plastic 33cl water bottles per year and replace with reusable glass containers in all rooms.
We plan to install a solar panel system to heat the indoor pool, replacing the use of fuel.
We are in the process of replacing some appliances, namely all room televisions and laundry washing machines to more recent eco-friendly models.