Green Team
The Delta Meadowvale Hotel and Conference Centre's environmental committee (Green Team) is proud to announce a new and promising partnership with the Credit Valley Conservation Foundation. The Green Team was formed in 2005 and has grown to be one of the core committees within our hotel.
The Delta Meadowvale's Green Team consists of 15 members with representation from every department. This Green team meets monthly to discuss opportunities to introduce and promote environmentally friendly practices, processes and programs that are in line with our Mission Statement that is:
Our objective is to create a culture in which our responsibility is to educate, initiate and exceed our expectations regarding our hotel environment. With an ongoing commitment to improve we will seek environmentally friendly products, services and practices and make every effort to conserve resources. Delta Meadowvale's future and the future of our environment are interconnected. 
The Green Team has implemented a number of successful initiatives that have greatly impacted the hotel, community and environment. The focus in 2006 was the redesign and implementation of a hotel wide recycling program involving guest rooms, meeting rooms, and back of house areas. This successful initiative led to the hotel diverting 21.58 tons of waste over the previous year, recycling 12.6 tons of paper saving 214 trees! The Green Team successfully hosts Earth Week/Days activities for team members with educational activities that include contests and quizzes, an organized property clean-up, tree planting, educational sessions with expert guest speakers, fundraising and featuring an organic menu in the cafeteria. Delta Meadowvale also completed a comprehensive survey regarding their environmental related practices and received a 4 Green Key rating from the Hotel Association of Canada's Green Key Eco-Rating Program. The HAC's Eco-Rating Program is a 5 key rating system designed to recognize hotels on their level of environmental consciousness.
Other initiatives in place include the donation of all discarded linens and used soap to a local charity, the use of low pressure shower heads and low flush toilets (which saved 2 million gallons of water in 2005; equivalent to two months consumption), all discarded towels are kept and reused as cleaning rags for the Housekeeping team, the use of energy-efficient light bulbs throughout the public areas, meeting rooms and guest rooms, and the use of dimmer light switches in meeting rooms, restaurant and lobby.
The Delta Meadowvale has chosen the Credit Valley Conservation Foundation as their environmental charity of choice to strengthen their connection with the environment and create a long lasting partnership with an organization whose priority is to improve and protect natural spaces for the enjoyment of many generations to come.
