"I was staying at the hotel, and I noticed they were giving everybody a plastic bottle every day. I didn't want to use that much plastic, so I decided to send an email to the General Manager of the hotel.
호텔에 머물 때 매일 사용되는 플라스틱 물병을 복 GM한테 메일을 보냈답니다.
'Hi, sir. I have noticed that many hotels in your chain are using plastic bottles, which are very harmful to the environment … On average, one-room uses four bottles per day, and in the hotel you have 301 rooms.
'That makes 1204 bottles, every single day. At school, I am an active member of a group called Bye Bye Plastic Bags, and our research shows that it takes 450 years for one plastic bottle to decompose entirely, and all the plastic ends up on beaches and in the ocean.
'I met with the manager who said the hotel has an action plan, and by February 2020, they plan to put water dispensers on each floor so people can go and fill up their water bottles. He said he was impressed, and he hoped that other people would be like this".
This week Panther People caught up with Haider M., a Grade 5 student and passionate environmentalist who put his problem-solving and communication skills into action to lobby an international hotel chain to reduce their use of single-use plastic water bottles. Read the full story at our ISKL Blog!