Brickbat: No Room at the Inn

Effective January 1, 2025, New York will ban hotels with 50 or more rooms from providing guests with bottles of shampoo and conditioner. Hotels that violate the law will be fined $250 for the first violation and $500 for each additional violation. Supporters of the law say it will reduce plastic pollution.

Comments

[SQRLSY]

From the linked source article:

'A spokesperson for Marriott told the Times that switching to larger, hand-pumped bottles will prevent "around 500 million small bath amenity bottles from going to landfills each year."'

OK, so now there will be one large (glass?) bottle left in the room, as one set of guests leave and another set of guests arrives? Or will it (and its large amount of contents) be replaced every time? That's a large amount of waste right there!

If you leave it there, some asshole will put poisons in it for the next guest! Recall asshole-poisoned aspirin years ago, and then safety seals on everything? Same deal... To prevent THIS next Government-Almighty-caused problem, the NEXT Government-Almighty "fix" will be to require TV spy cameras in hotel bathrooms, to prevent tampering with the large bottle of shampoo (and of REAL poo ass well ass SHAM-poo)!!!!

Will Government-Almighty PLEASE just STOP with their "fixes"?

[Phanatic]

Come the fuck on. This law is dumb, but there are thousands of hotels that have millions of rooms with large dispenser bottles of various gels, lotions, and ointments, and not a single person has ever been poisoned this way. You can criticize this law without being a fucking pearl-clutching lunatic.

[KerryB]

The law is dumb but most of the hotels I've stayed are doing this already and I doubt it is to be environmentally friendly. Even with more upscale hotels it is very common for people to put all the soap in their bags on the first day so housekeeping replaces it.

Now with dispensers bolted to the wall they just refill I bet they see a decent savings in the amount of soap they have to budget.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The plastics lobby is really lying down on the job.

[Chumby]

NYC could fine the Democratic Party $500/person per day for each illegal alien in the city. That would cut down on additional pollution as well as crime and safety net coffers being raided.

[Randy Sax]

Have the dispensers like at the gym. As someone with long hair, those tiny bottles are annoying, you can never get all the soap out of them.

[SQRLSY]

Are you perchance related to Randy Sex? I have known Randy Sex!

[Randy Sax]

That's the joke. Have fun with your pseudonyms.

[Chumby]

Squirrel prefers to have the bellhops dispense the conditioner all over his head.

[SQRLSY]

For your kind cuntsideration... Twat are the offspring (or udder results) of Randy Sax?

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Soave hardest hit.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Totally not a nanny state, er, city.

ps. Remember the fad among leftists who gave up bathing in order to save the planet? Whatever happened to them?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

In similar news, NYC has banned plastic dildos. City regs (and compliant 4B zealots) require the use of wood.

[Longtobefree]

Brilliant!
Now the illegals raping you will also have smelly hair.

[Stuck in California]

So, when I travel to a place that has this law, I can't take full sized bottles of anything on the plane, so I have to buy it there. Then I can't take it home, so I have to leave it.

This was probably promoted by the hotel lobby. They make it illegal to give away shampoo so, when they're too cheap to offer the perk, they don't have customers saying "But, the Hilton gave me shampoo! I'm going there next time."

Not unlike when I was traveling to San Francisco the last couple of years and, after the pandemic, they'd never clean your room or take away the towels. Even if you were there for a whole week. Because "for safety we don't let our maids go into guest rooms."

It's never about what they say it's about.

[AT]

I support this and all efforts to discourage any travel - for tourism or business - to the state of New York.