Good today, better tomorrow
In 1996 we started logging electricity consumption, water usage, unsorted waste and amount of laundry at Scandic. As we were taking action to reduce consumption at our hotels, we became interested in comparing the figures. That's why we set up a reporting system called SIR (Sustainability Indicator Reporting).
Every month the hotels report their consumption of resources to SIR. Then each hotel can compare with its earlier figures and with other hotels in the chain. The aim is naturally to get better and to motivate everyone to improve their own results.
Every Scandic hotel measures:
- Water usage
- Electricity consumption
- Amount of laundry
- Unsorted waste
We are the first hotel chain in the world to publish our statistics
CO2 per guest per night
In autumn 2007, we were the first hotel chain to introduce the key figure of fossil carbon dioxide per guest per night. This was possible because, for two years, we had put a great deal of effort into making sure that each hotel was able to report how the energy they used was produced (wind, hydro power, oil, coal or other). An average night at Scandic in 2006 produced 3.1 kilos of fossil CO2 per guest. Our target is to make that zero by 2025.