TRSA President and CEO Joseph Ricci’s observations of how linen and laundry choices influence hotel sustainability are featured this month in Hotel Business Review, the online magazine of HotelExecutive, the San Francisco-based online business resource for hotel owners and operators, including senior executives, directors, managers, investors and developers.

In terms that are easily adapted by linen services for use in their own company promotion, Ricci explains the impacts on hotel sustainability of laundry machinery efficiency, linen life and product life cycles. He quantifies the extent to which large-scale laundry conserves natural resources, suggests housekeeping practices that prevent premature removal of ...