Ravi Thundil is power mad. He is the chief engineer at the five-star Hilton Seychelles Labriz Resort & Spa on Silhouette Island, a thirty-minute enclosed boat transfer from Mahe which once took eight men six hours to row. Thundil wants his guests to shower and bathe less. The Labriz Seychelles Hilton, which was voted TripAdvisor’s Hotel of 2022, must be one of the few luxury hotels in the world at which the arriving guests’ resort familiarization and orientation tour involves a food waste grinder. “We used to burn all food waste in an incinerator,” says Thundil. “Now we grind all food waste in a semi solid form, and then compost it for use around the resort. We compost an average of 4800 Kg of food waste every month, representing total diesel savings for a year of approximately 48,000 Litres.”

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