The Killarney Park & The Ross
Marcus Treacy

Hometree’s purpose is land regeneration, how does this align with your company/organisation?
Our ambition is to be a Carbon Positive Business. We are a single-use plastic-free business and are doing what we can to ensure the environment and future generations are protected.

What is inspiring you to work with a regeneration process like Hometree?
We appreciate the work that Hometree is doing and we want to support that. We also see using tree planting days are a very positive teamwork day out which aligns with the goals of our organisation and with our team even more.

Some of the trees you are planting you will not see mature, together we are working towards more abundant and biodiverse future, in three or four sentences please describe what you would like to invite into the future?
More composting Solutions for Hotels in Ireland. Even if it were just coffee grinds like they do in the UK. https://www.bio-bean.com/ and more Water Stations in Towns and Cities in Ireland to promote no plastic bottles.

List two ways you would like to support this invitation in the future?
We are engaged in ensuring Killarney has 3-4 Water Stations installed in the next number of months.

Other than Hometree can you celebrate other ways you or your organisation supports a healthier environment?
Single-Use Plastic Free -Strict Management of our Energy Consumption -Strict Recycling & Waste Separation Policy in our Hotels - Members of Repak -Have LED Lighting through all of our Hotels -Use BioLPG -Use Green Electricity -Partner with Clean the World Program in terms of our Guest Toiletries -Moving away from Single Use Toiletries to a more bulk & local Product - Whereby possible we always try to support and purchase Local -All Straws, Cotton Swaps, To Go Cups and Lids, Toothbrushes, Coasters are made from -Products like Bamboo, Leather, Metal so they can be re-used -Moving away from using Chemicals in the Hotels are moving to a Cleaning Solution that does not use Chemicals and is Allergen Free – Also does not come in Plastic Packaging.

Have there been any key moments that you can share about how you or your organisation decided to support a more abundant and healthier world?
I along with my family are very passionate about the environment and being from Killarney all of our lives we have grown up around it. We have guests to our business that travel thousands of miles to visit our amazing landscape and we are trying our best to do what we can to protect it for the future.

We’d love to hear and share any key lessons that life has taught you, in as little or man words as you like.
“We are the FIRST generation to really feel the effect of Climate Change but we are the LAST generation that can do anything about it”