I thought they were looking for something dangerous but they're also looking for this
this hotel resort in Bali will not let you enter the property if you're holding a bottle of water
single-use plastic is not allowed on the property and that isn't so they can make you buy their own
drinks that's because there is no single-use plastic allowed on site the guests bring the
plastic bottle to the hotel we take it and then we try to recycle it and make it something nice from
there the soap dispenser made out of Styrofoam the slippers made out of coconut these coasters
are made from reusable material this is the most green hotel resort I have ever seen everything
here at Potato Head Bali has been done in a way that reduces waste compostable napkins all the
candles are made out of used cooking oil even my drink comes in a former beer bottle that's now
been used as a glass when you enter you will see this art installation made up of old flip-flops
from the beach what you're looking at is 5 000 washed up flip-flops but instead of being thrown
out or going back into the ocean they're being used as an art installation these bins and tissue
holders in the rooms are made from recycled plastics it's a it's a recyclable cloth and
they transform garbage into useful products and it's all done here on site all of the suppliers
that deliver food to Potato Head have to bring everything in sustainable packaging it must come
either in reusable bins or banana leaves even food waste or old cooking grease is then used to feed
the pigs everything here is reused and recycled in fact the only thing that can't be recycled
are cigarette butts and toilet paper but our bio candle is made 100 from our use cooking oil so we
cut costs on buying a candle seat the hotel and hospitality industry is a major contributor to
carbon emissions and Indonesia is one of the worst countries contrib attributing to Plastics in our
oceans but wait how and why does a hotel turn this garbage into a chair and is it good for business
good afternoon how are you so we're not allowed to bring this our water because it is
single-use plastic is not allowed on the property and you guys did great thank you I'm starting here
at the beach club all the candles are made out of used cooking oil they go through 1
000 candles a month so just think about the impact of not having to import 1000 candles
using new materials to create these candles and this isn't just a sustainability story this is a
story about economics because they're also saving money what's crazy about all of this is that they
are literally converting waste into products the TV for example it comes with the Box the cardboard
and inside you have the big star home so we we use that and we make it soap holder toothbrush
holder and everything styrofoam we use for that one huge moment for the hotel was when they had
over a hundred TVs delivered and TVs are always delivered with a nice styrofoam case to protect
them during the delivery that's when Potato Head started to get creative and say what are we gonna
do with all of this styrofoam we know it's bad for the environment we don't want to throw it away and
that's when they started turning styrofoam into products like this fast forward to today they even
converted tissue paper to Brown tissue which is compostable so the soap dispenser the toothbrush
holder you also have your do not disturb sign same thing and even this little pad for notes
and what's really crazy is that the slippers we all get them in the hotels these are made out of
coconuts the whole thing is made out of coconut even inside the toilet you will see compostable
toilet paper as well as the trash bin which is also made out of that material we saw earlier
essentially mostly plastic oh my God and it's not a plastic bag inside it's a recyclable cloth
they even think about the Journey of the food all of the suppliers that deliver food to Potato Head
have to bring everything from potatoes to chicken to lettuce in sustainable packaging so that means
no single-use plastic at all is allowed to enter the property so how do they deliver it well they
can use tub aware also a lot of suppliers will wrap their food in Banana Leaf as packaging to
completely avoid single-use plastic and these coasters are made from reusable material but
how exactly are these made as I walk around a hotel room I see just exactly how every item
is literally made from waste I want to walk you through the process of how they turn Plastics
like this into bottle caps like this once they have a big load of plastics like this what they
do is they essentially put them in this machine over here those plastic bottles are put in this
machine where they're essentially cut up into thousands of tiny pieces like this tiny pieces
thousands of tiny pieces of plastic like this so that's what this file is and then using
extremely extremely high heat they're turned into big squares like this from the squares
the squares are put into here and then they cut these which are bottle cups these are caps that
are used for bottles throughout the resort so what's happening here is they're using plastic
like this recycling it into panels like this which can then be used for bottle caps chairs
coasters at the restaurant you see this design all over the resort and it's really cool it has
a great aesthetic and it's crazy to imagine that it all came from math what about styrofoam you've
probably heard that it is one of the worst things for the environment well here they actually do
a process where they're able to turn that into things like your soap dispenser throughout the
resort and not just that your tissue ball your toothbrush holder all from recycled styrofoam
and some other components as well global warming is threatening everything we know about our planet
and in Indonesia has some of the worst pollution into our oceans what you're looking at is 5
000 washed up flip-flops but instead of being thrown out or going back into the ocean they're
being used as an art installation all the wood that you're looking at came from old homes in
the region so none of it was newly produced and this is one of the first things you see
before entering the beach club and what makes it so interesting is that they want to show a
different perspective of what we consider to be garbage they want you to see how you can
possibly consider reusing garbage and turning it into something like art what I love here is
the quote from the artist who says everything we throw away comes back to us the air we breathe the
water we drink the soil we grow crops and raise animals on so as you can see it's quite a scene
and everyone here is like immediately rethinking their relationship with the ocean and with garbage
waste is not a waste until it goes to landfill this world is going crazy