{"id":9779,"date":"2011-09-29T01:42:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T08:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=9779"},"modified":"2011-09-29T01:42:41","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T08:42:41","slug":"celebrity-pillows-going-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=9779","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity pillows going 'green'"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Of all the items we think about being in a landfill…pillows? That means it’s one more item for cruise lines to consider in their ongoing attempts to being environmentally responsible.<\/p>\n

So, about the pillows.<\/p>\n

A cruise line with 25,000 beds uses 50,000…and that’s when the customers don’t ask (blush) for an extra pillow. Obviously, pillows wear out and when they do, unless you have a dog or cat to take custody, pillows go in the garbage, and garbage goes in the landfill.<\/p>\n

Where’s this going?<\/p>\n

To somewhere in South Carolina, where a 53-year-old family business called Harris Pillow Supply<\/a> makes machines that renovate pillows. Right, who’d have thought? This is not a \"\"<\/a>blatant promo for a company…it’s a news item that Celebrity Cruises<\/a> has the pillow-renovating machine on nine of its 10 ships.<\/p>\n

In layman’s terms, the machine sifts out the (allergy-causing) dust from used pillows, then cleans whatever material is used to fill the pillow with what’s called an “ozone-emitting germicidal light” and if necessary adds more new filling to restore the pillow’s bounce after it’s gone flat.<\/p>\n

It happens in four minutes a pillow.<\/p>\n

If it didn’t work, Celebrity wouldn’t have installed the machines on nine of its ships. The one ship without it is the Celebrity Xpedition<\/a>. That’s the ship that goes to the Galapagos Islands, regularly filled with people who deeply care about the environment.<\/p>\n

Go figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of all the items we think about being in a landfill…pillows? That means it’s one more item for cruise lines to consider in their ongoing attempts to being environmentally responsible. So, about the pillows. A cruise line with 25,000 beds uses 50,000…and that’s when the customers don’t ask (blush) for an extra pillow. Obviously, pillows… Continue reading Celebrity pillows going 'green'<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,19,15],"tags":[71,138,451,86,96,618],"class_list":["post-9779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-ships","category-stories","tag-celebrity","tag-celebrity-cruises","tag-celebrity-eclipse","tag-cruise-ships","tag-environment","tag-environmental-responsibility","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}