Waste Management

We commit to reducing the amount of waste ending up in landfill by efficient use of resources, implementation of the principles of circular economy, reuse, and recyclability, while eliminating unnecessary plastic packaging in cooperation with our suppliers.

Costa Navarino’s integrated waste management system focuses on reducing, reusing, and recycling, supported by an on-site wastewater treatment facility. Since 2020, we have partnered with WWF Greece to cut unnecessary single-use plastics across our resorts. We track plastic use annually and set ambitious reduction goals, and in 2024, we achieved a 72% reduction in single-use plastics in guest areas and 67% fewer plastic bottles, moving closer to eliminating them entirely.

This initiative helps prevent plastic pollution in our seas and inspires our supply network, local communities, and the wider hospitality industry to act. It aligns with our commitment to the UN Global Tourism Plastics Initiative, led by UNEP and UNWTO with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

Since 2024, TEMES has also partnered with its supplier to collect and reuse complimentary glass water bottles from all guest rooms. This initiative achieved over 80% reuse in its first year, preventing waste and saving the raw materials and energy required to produce more than 374,000 new bottles.

In 2022, Captain Vassilis and Carmen Constantakopoulos Foundation and Costa Navarino, in collaboration with the volunteer movement Save Your Hood, launched a new initiative for the mitigation of the pollution due to waste and plastics. The new program entitled “Clean Messinia” aims to support and engage local communities in a more sustainable way of waste management, by changing the habits and adopting new practices, friendlier to the environment. The program motivates people to contribute substantially through activities which include beach cleaning, waste collecting, as well as raising awareness in the communities, about the need to protect our shores and the sea.