Hotel disposable products mainly include the following products: dental appliances, combs, razors, soaps, shower caps, shampoos, body washes, shoe cloths, sewing kits, coasters, cup lids, disinfection seals, garbage bags, matches, Label pen, soft draw paper, etc.
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Some organizations have counted the use rate of disposable products in the hotel, slippers are the highest, more than 90%; followed by toothbrushes, reaching 80%; then shampoo, body soap, 50%-60%; others such as care kits, wipes The usage rate of shoe cloth, etc. is low.
Disposable toothbrushes are an indispensable kind of hotel disposable products. In daily life, there can be no care kits, sewing kits, shoe cloths, etc., but toothbrushes are not available.
Toothbrush, this is an indispensable product in the hotel’s disposable products. Every morning in the hotel, you can have no care kit, no sewing kit, no shoe cloth, but you can’t use a toothbrush. No.
Disposable toothbrushes are classified according to the material of the toothbrush handle, which can be divided into soft plastic toothbrushes and hard plastic toothbrushes;
According to the toothbrush bristles, they can be divided into sharpened toothbrushes, nylon toothbrushes, elm toothbrushes, nylon-like toothbrushes, and silk king (propylene silk) toothbrushes;
According to the styles of toothbrushes, there are mainly snake-head toothbrushes, leaf toothbrushes, mermaid toothbrushes, curved toothbrushes, frosted Crest toothbrushes, semicircular Crest toothbrushes, flat toothbrushes, penguin toothbrushes, shoehorn toothbrushes, Roman column toothbrushes, etc.
Attention should also be paid to the storage of disposable items. The second-level warehouse of the housekeeping department should try to choose a relatively dry place to store the items. The hotel once placed the second-level warehouse of the guest room department in the basement, which is rather inappropriate and is unfavorable for the preservation of items. In June, the soap had moldy and the matches could not be used when they were damp.
In addition to the above objective factors that can reduce the use of disposable products, there are several control methods for these consumables as follows:
- Identify the responsible person. The authority to receive disposable supplies will be returned to the foremen in each region, and it is stipulated that they will be picked up once a week at the second-level warehouse. The foremen of each area will receive the items according to the leftovers in each building and the reservation situation of the next week.
- Allocate according to the standard. The amount of equipment in each workshop is based on the average amount of items in a week as a fixed storage amount, and 10% of the allocation is allocated to the designated area as a mobile.
- Strict application system. The person in charge of each area must fill in the balance of each item of last week when picking up items, and register the number of items picked up this week in detail, and sign for confirmation.
- Implement a reward and punishment system. According to the actual monthly occupancy of each building, the actual use of disposable items in each building is counted, and the use of disposable items in the hotel is equipped with the standard. If it exceeds 10% of the standard equipment, a penalty will be imposed. At the end of the year, count the number of applications and actual usage in the whole year, and use 10%-15% of the saved amount to give employees as rewards.
- Timely inventory. Implement a small market a week and a large one-month system to keep abreast of the consumption of all items.
- All management personnel should do a good job of saving and reusing materials, making the best use of materials and exerting their maximum utilization value.
I believe that with the efforts of all parties, the consumption of disposable products will be reduced. Achieve scientific management, strengthen environmental protection, improve service quality, and reduce hotel cost investment.
One of the most concerned issues of the hotel industry: whether the six small items of disposable consumables should be environmental protection concessions have already begun to be partially implemented in some cities. Before the relevant departments have issued the documents for the cancellation of disposable products, it is necessary to mention the reasonable control of disposable consumables in daily work. There are nearly 20 kinds of disposable consumables in the hotel. Are these 20 kinds of items needed by guests? I don’t think so. I believe everyone has discovered the following situations:
- Toothbrushes are generally packaged with toothpaste, which is more wasteful for residents. Generally, the toothpaste matched with the toothbrush is 6g. Brushing once in the morning and evening is gone. The toothbrush can continue to be used, but because there is no toothpaste, it is necessary to disassemble a pair of toothbrushes, because this relationship increases the one-time use virtually. The consumption of supplies means neither energy saving nor environmental protection.
Suggestions: 1) Put the toothpaste separately (because it has its own packaging, no need to deal with it separately) to reduce unnecessary waste.
2) Specially equipped with branded toothpaste of 45 g-60g for rooms with a stay of more than three days.
- The sewing kit in the guest room has a lower usage rate and is more wasteful. According to statistics, the hotel uses a total of 742 sewing kits a year, including internal use. In addition, there are fewer cotton threads in the sewing kit, and there are as many as five colors. When a certain kind of thread is not enough, another package needs to be opened, and all the needles are thrown away after one use.
- The small soap provided in the guest room is an indispensable item in the bathroom, which can be used for guests to wash their hands or clean small pieces of clothing and so on. But in most cases, guests can’t use a whole bar of soap, and some even disassemble and wash their hands and don’t use it anymore. Due to the small size of the recycled soap, the cleaning effect is not good, and the value of recycling is greatly reduced.
Suggestions: 1) Replace the soap with a reusable hand sanitizer bottle and put it in the guest room to reduce waste and improve the hotel’s quality.
2) If guests need to wash small pieces of clothing, they can provide paid sachets of brand washing powder in the bathroom to enhance the cleaning effect.
- The utilization rate of female guest bags is not only low but also has no practical significance. It is recommended to remove them.
- The envelopes placed in the large memo folder in the guest room are divided into ordinary envelopes and airmail envelopes, but less than 100 are used throughout the year, partly because of damage caused by guests when they browse through them. The channels for communicating with people are not only diverse but also fast. The era of correspondence has passed.
Suggestion: Put envelopes in the public areas of the lobby and business center. Guests can pick them up if they need them, without placing them in guest rooms.
