The hotel has introduced an enormous number of equipment adaptations and new procedures to save electricity, water, gas, paper and other resources. For example, the staff conduct monthly energy and resource audits, reduce the solar heating of rooms, maintain the efficiency of equipment, use energy-saving light bulbs, clean reflecting surfaces, centralise kitchen operations, and combine cooking operations to run less equipment. The Resort ensures efficient heat transfer on pots and pans and maintains a strict policy about not wasting food during preparation. The hotel has reduced external air emissions by gradually switching to refrigerants with low ozone depletion potential. It has discontinued Halon and dry chemical fire extinguishers, in favour of Carbon Dioxide fire extinguishers.
Staff is educated to save natural resources by means of stickers beside light switches and taps.
There are also stickers in guestrooms encouraging guests to help reduce waste. That's not all. Phuket Yacht Club is doing something else that is unique and environmentally-friendly. It has recently implemented a new system for cutting down on chlorine consumption in the swimming pool. Chlorine, once used to keep the pool clean and free of bacteria, is being replaced by a new substance using natural salt.