How These Luxury Hotels in Bali are Reducing Waste - AFAR

"Located in Seminyak’s Petitenget neighborhood, this beachfront resort complex combines striking architecture with an ambitious zero-waste ethos: a mosaic of 6,600 recycled wooden shutters fronts the beach club, suites include buildings made from 1.8 million hand-pressed terra-cotta bricks and a pink façade colored by salvaged broken bricks, and contemporary oceanfront studios feature furniture made from recycled materials. Its Waste Lab, housed in a nearly 300-foot skylit bamboo tunnel called the Womb, turns colorful plastic pulled from waterways into terrazzo-like panels and design objects (including a chair by Max Lamb), powers a DJ booth constructed from 1,243 pounds of recycled plastic, and hosts hands-on workshops—making candles from used cooking oil, dyeing tote bags from decommissioned bedsheets, and crafting bracelets from recycled-plastic beads—alongside a daily Follow the Waste tour, plans for a community waste facility, and guest-involved beach collection tools. An Eco Mantra audit reduced landfill output to 2.6 percent with a goal of zero, and the property’s restaurants put circular principles into practice: a plant-based tasting menu at Tanaman, a seafood kitchen that uses every part of sustainably line-caught fish (bones into bouillon, scales into togarashi), terrazzo tabletops made from recycled plastic, and oyster shells blended with Styrofoam and limestone to form colorful amenity kits." - Kathryn Romeyn