I'm generally warming up to the idea of eliminating the single-use bottles. The first time I experienced it, I was at Aloft (they've already been doing it for years). It smacked of cheapness - something the hotel was doing because their target guests were fairly recently removed from college campuses where these are common. To me it felt like being in a locker room.

But now, I will say that the waste argument is convincing, and I honestly don't really care where my shampoo comes from - big bottle or little bottle. I still think the cheapness angle is there, but I'll live with it if this is environmentally better.

I do hope that a bar of soap remains. Those can come paper-wrapped. I just prefer a bar of soap over the body wash liquids.

If Marriott wants to get serious about the environment, how about stopping the use of disposable utensils, cups, and plates at breakfast. Kind of hard for a hotel to try to spin an eco-message when I have to use tiny styrofoam cups to get some juice and water in the morning. I see everybody grabbing multiple cups (e.g. 2 cups to get maybe 8 ounces of juice) and it all gets thrown away. I know washing dishes isn't carbon-free, but it has to be better than the total carbon cost of the unnecessary manufacturing, shipping, and then throwing away hundreds of pounds of garbage per property per day.