In the UK the Textile Services Association (TSA) and UK Hospitality (UKH) have announced an agreement reached by representatives of the hospitality and laundry industries at their latest roundtable event. The agreement is stated to be an important step to reduce the single use plastic waste created during the servicing of hotel linens.

Currently, single use plastic wrapping is used by laundries when clean bedroom linen is being transported back to hotels – about 100 tonnes of plastic a week, which is equivalent to 300 tonnes of carbon throughout its lifecycle. As only 9% of plastic waste is currently recycled, removing this from the bedroom linen laundry chain would be a significant contribution towards increasing the sustainability of both laundry and hospitality industries.