Acting on PM Narendra Modi's call, hotels cut use of PET bottles

Large chains like the Marriott and Taj that are estimated to consume two million plastic bottles a year

Check into the J W Marriott hotel property at Delhi’s Aerocity, you will no longer find a plastic bottle. On Monday, it banished the last of its polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles, replacing these with QR-coded glass ones from its Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based bottling unit. 

This 500-room property, says the management, consumes 5,479 bottles a day. The plan is to replicate this model, first at select hotels and to eventually do away with PET bottles at all its properties. Marriott joins Indian Hotels Company (IHCL, the Taj group) in doing so — the latter recently set up bottling units at select hotels