Creating luxury hospitality for the future

Recipients of some of the world’s leading sustainability accolades, our award winning hotels consistently showcase the high standards that personify Anantara The Palm Dubai Resort. Browse through some of the proud awards we've proudly received.

Since 2016, we made a pledge to remove single-use plastic across the resort. After installing an onsite water bottling plant in 2021, glass refillable bottles have been in use, and over 1 million single use plastic bottles have not been required, a number which rises daily. Single use bathroom amenities at residences are no longer in use at the resort, saving waste daily at our rooms and residences. We have examined our suppliers under our “cauliflower method” and changed suppliers who weren’t offering recycling end-of-life items. We, for example, replaced Dalmia with Coffee Planet to ensure recycling for coffee pods. We no longer accept Styrofoam packaging throughout the property and balloons are not allowed on the premises. Team is encouraged to be creative with natural resources without the need for plastic single use.

All our team members have worked hard to reduce waste throughout the property and use other measures where possible. This resulted in a 204% decline of monthly waste heading to landfill over the past year, which equals to approx. 200 Tons in a year. In our Gym, we now offer direct filter water and flavoured water in reusable bottles, Anantara branded flasks that Guests can buy for their reuse, completely removing single use cups and plastic bottles, reducing the use of 600 plastic single-use bottles per month. The Kids’ Club, Wellness Centre and Learning & Development departments are operating at almost zero waste! Each department head taking ownership to reduce waste and reuse from their respective departments.

Both front and back of house have made a concerted effort to reuse components and materials to be more sustainable. In the kitchen, 9,791 kilogrammes of cooking oil have been cleaned and reused, while 208 kilogrammes of soap bars collected from the rooms has been reconditioned to be reused for cleaning the back of the house. 245,449 kilogrammes of garden waste have been used for composting, along with 178 kilogrammes of coffee cake, all helping our resort and herb gardens bloom. From over 300 kilogrammes of coffee pods and used linen, we have created grocery bags and jewellery, creative use of waste. 

Our Food Digester machine has processed 21,608 kilogrammes of food waste since its installation. By digesting food like a giant human stomach and changing it to grey waste, we have reduced our carbon footprint by 86 tons this year, that’s the equivalent of removing 19 gas-powered cars from the road for a full year. This will also support UAE initiate of Nema https://www.nema.ae/, reducing 50% of food waste and loss by 2030.

At Anantara The Palm Dubai Resort, in 2022 we have recycled 29,640 kilogrammes of glass, 1,800 kilogrammes of plastic, 453 kilogrammes of metal cans and 38,000 kilogrammes of paper. As we mentioned earlier, this has resulted in receiving monthly AED 2,800 rebate for our efforts. We will continue to measure this and where possible reduce our reliance on these materials.

Fine dining is becoming green dining at Anantara Dubai The Palm Resort. Our near-future initiative will see onsite technology for digesting or composting of food waste to repurpose leftovers for feeding out lush landscaped gardens.

Working with Dubai Sustainability Guidelines, Anantara is dedicated to creating a benchmark for sustainable luxury hospitality through tracking of all opportunities for recycling and waste reduction and using best practice initiatives and innovations across all Anantara Dubai properties.

At Anantara The Palm Dubai we are committed to sustainable growth and reducing our impact on the environment. In keeping with this, we have omitted the use of plastic straws and cards. Stainless steel stirrers have replaced our plastic stirrers and guests now access their rooms by wooden key cards. We encourage our team and guests to reduce their plastic consumption so we can reach our goal of 0% disposable plastic across the resort. Help save the planet with Anantara The Palm Dubai.