Sixteenth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability

Abstract

The environment is where humans and businesses get resources to survive both socially and economically. However, waste generation and improper waste management have been found to be significant factors and contributors to environmental pollution and deterioration, attendant socioeconomic consequences. Widespread interest in environmental sustainability, protection, and conservation has compelled businesses and industries notably hotels to evolve ways of drifting away from conventional albeit wasteful use of resources and unsustainable methods of waste management such as burning, landfilling, and dumping to engaging in more efficient resource utilization and sustainable waste management practices. Implementing the sustainable use of resources and waste management methods however is less convenient and cannot be adopted haphazardly. These can only be effected deliberately, purposefully, and with careful planning. Crafting and implementing organizational waste management policies are necessary for the purposes of monitoring and evaluation in to ensure that set objectives of the policies are achieved. This study proposes that hotels’ adoption of goal oriented sustainable resource utilization and waste management methods are dependent on their intentional and planned decisions articulated in the forms of organizational waste management policies.