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The Sheraton Steamboat Resort Implements Sustainability Initiatives

The Sheraton Steamboat Resort, Steamboat’s only full-service luxury ski-in/ski-out resort and conference center, is pleased to announce that its “Green Team” has implemented numerous sustainability initiatives to help make the resort as eco-friendly as possible, including:

• The Sheraton Steamboat has partnered with Clean the World, a charitable organization that recycles discarded hotel soap and bottled shampoo products, sending them to communities in need worldwide to help prevent the millions of deaths caused by hygiene-related illnesses. Since the partnership began in June 2011, the Sheraton Steamboat has recycled 691 pounds of bottled amenities and 504 pounds of soap, which have been used to create 2,688 bars of new soap.
• Conservation efforts at the Sheraton Steamboat include the updating of most light bulbs with CFL bulbs and LED fixtures, purchasing as much food from local vendors as possible and the installation of a computer controlled system to monitor and adjust room HVAC systems. The 100% smoke-free resort also features recycling receptacles in each of its 188 guest rooms, as well as public spaces, and uses only eco-friendly cleaning solutions and chemicals.
• The resort – which won the 2010 Outstanding Recycler of the Year from the Steamboat Springs Chamber Resort Association - has earned Gold Level Certification each year since 2009 through Steamboat’s Sustainable Business Program.
• For meeting planners, the Sheraton Steamboat offers the Green Meeting Program, which includes E-proposals, E-menus and E-Billing. Planners can choose to receive a Starwood Environmental Impact Assessment, which is like a report card tracking an event’s energy and water consumption, waste management and sustainable food choice. The program is designed to reduce the carbon footprint for each meeting or event by encouraging planners to select locally sourced foods, using china or recycled-ware, offering water stations versus bottled water, serving in bulk instead of individual packets, utilizing public transportation and composting.
• Guests at the Sheraton Steamboat can participate in Starwood’s “Make a Green Choice” program, where they can opt out of towel and linen replacement and all housekeeping services for up to three nights at a time. For each night of participation, guests receive either a $5 food and beverage credit or 500 Starpoints as part of Starwood's loyalty program.
• The Sheraton Steamboat’s award-winning Rollingstone Ranch Golf Club was recently awarded Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary status from Audubon International for maintaining a high degree of environmental quality in a number of areas, including Environmental Planning, Wildlife & Habitat Management, Chemical Use Reduction and Safety and Water Conservation.
• Associates at the Sheraton Steamboat attend ongoing green educational events, participate in local highway clean-up days and are incentivized to bike, carpool or use public transportation to get to/from work.

Located just steps from Steamboat’s Gondola, the Sheraton Steamboat features 188 guest rooms and suites and 21 luxury Resort Villas, all offering a modern feel, LCD flat panel televisions, updated bathrooms and the “Sheraton Sweet Sleeper II,” which consists of a luxurious mattress with 300 thread count linens. Other amenities at the resort include a ski valet and storage, seven outdoor hot tubs and an outdoor heated pool, the Sheraton fitness programmed by Core Performance, wireless high-speed Internet access, the Play game room, Link @ Sheraton experienced with Microsoft and a golf pro shop. The Sheraton Steamboat also features 28,000 square feet of flexible indoor and outdoor meeting space, including the 6,300 square foot Grand Ballroom, and is home to five signature restaurants, such as Sevens Mountain Grill and Saddles Lounge.

For more information on the Sheraton Steamboat Resort or to make a reservation, please visit www.sheratonsteamboatresort.com or call 800-325-3535.

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