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LOCAL Wednesday 23 december 2020

It’s a Sustainable Life

EAGLE BEACH — Our guests tion and heating the plan- our guests understand our
this week have been full of et along the way.” Christ- intentions and react with
cheer and smiles watching mas trees require about 5 appreciation for the cre-
our team create and adorn years to grow to minimum ative and festive solutions
the resort with beautiful size and require substan- we have implemented in
holiday décor hand made tial amounts of water and effort to maintain Aruba’s
from repurposed furniture poisoning fertilizers. Typi- health and beauty for gen-
and other recycled and re- cally, they provide adorn- erations.
used materials. ment for only a three-week
period and these oxygen Bucuti and Tara has proud-
“We opt to reforest the producing beauties are ly chosen to preserve our
globe instead of depriving then discarded. Our view is natural environment for fu-
it of precious living, breath- that the damage exceeds ture generations and has
ing trees” explains owner/ the benefit – and alterna- achieved a Carbon Neutral would be to change the The expense and annual
CEO Ewald Biemans. “For tives are possible. Bucuti & certification. Besides that, impact that the extreme expenditure is wasteful and
example, in Aruba, all Tara would like to see our this month the resort was use of fireworks has on our causes economic harm as
Christmas trees are shipped island destination collec- the first and only hotel in small island,” Biemans con- well. While traditions are
thousands of miles, burning tively choose the sustain- the world to be awarded a tinues. “Fireworks pollute understood and appreci-
fossil fuels in the transporta- able route and show that United Nations Climate Ac- on many levels. The smoke ated, when they cause
tion Now Award. This pres- that is created by these more harm than good, al-
tigious honor was awarded objects is especially dan- ternatives must be adopt-
due to their environmental gerous to our lungs and ed.” The Bucuti and Tara
program’s scalability and we should be more mind- Sustainable team suggest
replicability. As a compa- ful than ever about this with seasonal music, dance
ny, they demonstrate that COVID-ÂÊ. Besides that, and culinary contests and
the implementation of sus- they cause noise, chemical festivals that promote cul-
tainable actions is not only and waste product which ture and similarly provide
possible, but also some- ultimately can end up in a vocal and sensory out-
thing that can be applied the sea, damaging marine let to ring out the old year
throughout all businesses. life. Days of continuous fire- and welcome in the new!
works causes undo stress We hope Aruba chooses to
“Another improvement to on our animals, our elderly, protect its beautiful island
sustainable living in Aruba our ill from noise pollution. for future generations.q