Earth Guest day 2009 Report

up the Remolar beach, next to the Llobregat river delta. The Novotel hotel employees walked from
Cornellà de Llobregat to the Llobregat river mouth (3 km) and then they visited water desalination and
treatment plant, and a local plant plantation.
In the Valence community, the Ibis hotel employees cleaned up a lake in the Albufera.
The Novotel employees rehabilitated some of the natural springs that exist in the various zones of the
Natural Park of Scie Calderona (Valence) and they built up drinking trough for the local and migrant
birds.
In Madrid, the Ibis, Etap and Formule1 Madrid hotels employees, along with the head office
employees cleaned up the Alberche River. The Pullman and Novotel employees cleaned and
replanted a nearby area of Villagordo du Marquisat (Cuenca province). Moreover, they dug holes near
the bushes in order to collect rainwater.
Basque country, the Ibis and Etap hotels employees of Bilbao cleaned up the Nervión River.
Novotel employees cleaned up the les Castaños (Barakaldo) river bed, thus coinciding with the
Basque Government campaign for the protection of a protected thorny fish species that lives in the
river.
In Murcia, the Novotel employees bought trees plants to offer them to client companies and attended a
conference on the Group’s environmental policy.
Accor Services waste
Crystal bottles were distributed in order to replace plastic bottles and avoid its too large consumption.
The Charter was launched in the offices and an email was sent to every employee.
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