Sustainability

It’s time for change

Travel is our greatest inspiration. That’s why at Novotel Perth Murray Street, we’re making it our mission to give back. These small changes make a big difference in minimising our footprint so we can work towards being a more sustainable hotel.

Read on for more details on sustainable services and facilities available at Novotel Perth Murray Street during your stay and let’s embrace tomorrow together.

Single Use Plastics

We are committed to eliminating single-use plastics from your experience. As part of this commitment and to help conserve the planet’s resources:

We have removed plastic water bottles from our guestrooms. Guests can enjoy Perth’s fresh, safe drinking water from the guestroom tap, or fill personal water bottles at complimentary water stations located at the ground level lounge bar (still and sparkling water) or level 12 fitness centre (still water only).
Introduction of refillable bathroom amenities by Deep Nature. In addition, these products are 100% natural and free from harmful silicones and mineral oils.
Other eco-friendly room and bathroom amenities packaged in recycled paper.

Water & Energy

You can assist us in reducing water and energy consumption by:

To save energy and water, we change the sheets every second day of your stay. Place the bed linen card on the bed if you would like us to change the sheets.
Reusing your towels to help us make a positive impact on the world. To reuse your towel, kindly place them back on the towel rack. If you would like the towels replaced, please leave them on the bathroom floor.
Remove your room key card from the key power socket upon departing your room.
Your guest room comes equipped with water flow reducers.
Hotel guest floors have automatic sensor lights to save to energy and guestrooms use energy-efficient LED lights.

Sustainable Meetings

At Novotel Perth Murray Street, the following sustainable meetings initiatives assist event organisers in running their events and meetings more sustainably.

Plastic Free. Meeting rooms at Novotel are 100% plastic free! There is no one-time-use plastic in the form of individual glasses, bottles or plates. In addition, any plastic in the room is recyclable, shareable and reusable.
Share Your Bottle. To strengthen the green meeting philosophy, water is available in big shared jugs. By providing jugs, people are sharing and are not consuming one-time use bottles or glasses, thus avoiding water and plastic waste.
A well-designed and recyclable bin is displayed in each meeting room.
Sustainable Meetings Toolbox. Your toolbox contains reusable writing instruments and meeting essentials that are designed to be shared, replacing the “one pen and one paper per person” concept. By December 2024 new pens made from recycled paper will also be introduced.
Energy Saving. Conference floor and meetings rooms equipped with sensor lighting that turn off automatically when not in use.
Saving Trees. Paper flip charts and whiteboards have been replaced by electronic Samsung Flips
Food waste. Leftover catering from your event is turned into compost to reduce waste.

Serving Our Community

We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on where we meet today, the Whadjuk people of the Noongar Nation. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging and extend those respects to all indigenous and Torres Strait Islanders.

Novotel Perth Murray Street is proud to work with Containers for Change WA. All proceeds from container donations go to our chosen charity partner, Activate Tree Planting. This volunteer-based organisation hosts unique, sustainable tree planting festivals, combining music, art, food, indigenous culture and community together in an effort to revegetate and repair the widespread degradation of WA peri-urban and regional landscapes.
The hotel will soon be working with DV Collective’s ‘Silly Socks for a Safe House’. Guests will be able to get involved by purchasing a pair of Silly Socks during their stay. Proceeds raised go towards the purchase of essential items for women and children entering into women’s shelters. Learn more.

Food Waste & Reducing Landfill

Our sustainable hotel procedures work to reduce landfill in a number of ways, including the following:

We collaborate with City of Perth to recycle food waste, composting it into nutrient rich soil. This reduces the amount of waste that ends up in landfill and also helps to limit the release of greenhouse gas emissions.
Your guestroom bin has separate compartments for general waste and recyclable items.
As part of our sustainability initiatives to minimise waste, certain bathroom amenities are available upon request. If you require more amenities, then give the front desk a call and we will be right up with what you need.
While we encourage guests to savour their buffet breakfast, please only take what you can eat to help support our food waste reduction goals.

Why Choose Sustainable Hotel Travel

Choosing to travel as sustainably as possible helps to reduce the negative impact caused on the environment and ecosystem of the places that you are visiting. While tourism helps create demand for jobs and boost the local economy, the environmental impact of tourism can be devastating when not properly managed. We thank our guests in supporting our unwavering commitment to minimising the ecological impact of each and every stay.