What we do to help the environment!

Solar hot water system.

Our solar hot water system helps to supply the hotel with an abundance of hot water for Baths, showers and kitchen, doing our bit to help the environment.

Maintained by our friends at FreeSol.

Plastic and other envionmental issues/recycling.

We do our best where possible to buy products and food which are not wrapped in plastic but which comes in bio-degradable packaging, Currently 79 per cent of the plastic produced over the last 70 years has been thrown away, either into landfill sites or into the general environment. Just nine per cent is recycled with the rest incinerated. We re-cycle everything, time consuming but an absolute necessity!

With more than eight million tonnes going into the oceans every year, it is estimated there will be more plastic than fish by 2050 and 99 per cent of all the seabirds on the planet will have consumed some. It is thought the sea now contains some 51 trillion microplastic particles – 500 times more than stars in our galaxy.

We do not just talk ECO, we do it!!

80% of fruit/vegetable scraps from the kitchen, that we cannot use goes to a type of composting, called vermicompost.

This is basically composting with worms.

Solar lighting

Much of our outside lighting is now solar, virtually all bulbs within the hotel grounds/buildings have now been changed to LED, previously if 75% of the lights were on we would have been consuming 4kw of energy per hour with Just lighting, we are now down to 350w, doing our bit to save the planet.

Cardboard and paper.

All paper and cardboard is re-cycled from La Mariposa.

Environmentally kind electrical equipment.

Over the past 2 years we have increased the Triple A rated electrical appliances throughout the hotel including air con units, fridges/freezers, TVs, pool pump etc etc, our aim is to continue this untill all appliences are re-placed with energy efficient models.