Ramada Hotel & Suites Ajman and Ramada Beach Hotel Ajman launched a new sustainability project in partnership with Provectus Middle East to convert used cooking oil to biodiesel. Alongside their other environmental projects, the hotels aim to step up their green practices and further sustainability in the hospitality field through the new initiative. Iftikhar Hamdani, cluster general manager of the two hotels, signed the contract with Zack H. Abdi, managing director of Provectus Middle East, providing them access to collect cooking oil waste generated from the hotels’ kitchen, restaurants and staff accommodation, to be processed to 100 per cent biodegradable biodiesel.

Between the hotels, about 4,350 gallons of cooking oil waste is generated in a year. "Three years after the launch of our initiative zero landfill project, we are able to divert approximately 985,500 kg of waste from the landfill, which are mainly food waste from the kitchen turned into compost. The cooking oil to biodiesel initiative will further reduce our landfill submission, which is already at 10 per cent, and we will continue to look for ways to reach zero per cent," says Hamdani.