Royal Caribbean Eliminates Plastic Water Bottles Across Fleet
Royal Caribbean Eliminates Plastic Water Bottles Resuming Fleet Wide Initiative
Prior to the pandemic, Royal Caribbean had a three-phase plan to get rid of single-use discretionary products, such as plastic water bottles, coffee creamers, sugar packets, plastic straws etc. Prior to the shutdown, the cruise line was nearly halfway through its plans to eliminate all plastics.
Royal Caribbean is now ready to pick back up with these plans and within 1 week’s time, there will be a fleet-wide massive rollout of no longer having plastic water bottles on board.
Plans for the resumption of this initiative have officially started and after a ship uses the end of its supply on hand, guests will see the switch. The goal is to further eliminate single-use plastics within 1 year of the cruise ships being back online since the cruise shut down.
Spotted Aluminum Cans from sister brand Celebrity Cruises. Photo Credit Doug Swallow
The initiative has already been spotted on ships within the fleet using the sister brand Celebrity Cruises bottles.
There will still be glass bottles of Avion, and Perrier, but the single-use noncarbonated water will all be aluminum cans.
Aluminum cans are recycled indefinitely whereas plastic can only be recycled twice in its lifespan.
Long term, looking into the future Royal Caribbean is aiming to include public fill stations throughout the ship where you can bring on board your own refillable water bottle and refill it without having to use a secondary cup. (Similar to what you have seen in airports or gyms that have a counter of how many water bottles they have saved.) Public health concerns are still top of mind, for the cruise line so they are looking at the best way to include the refill stations.
Bottle Refill Station Seen on Virgin Voyages
On my Celebrity Constellation cruise earlier this month I enjoyed the availability of these aluminum cans water bottles. I was also blown away that they were even handed out to guests while going ashore in a port of call. I found this to be an incredibly nice touch to make sure guests stay hydrated while we enjoyed some fun in the sun. They even continued to do this as they sent us off the ship with a bottle to go as we disembarked. I absolutly loved this simple kind gesture.
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