--On Friday, August 02, 2013 06:47 -0700 Randall Gellens <rg+ietf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I can rattle off a very small number of hotels around the > world where they do wash in-room items in the restaurant > dishwasher. Or equivalent. Most of those seal the washed cups in paper or plastic to show that they have done so. Sadly from an environmental standpoint, there are fewer that do wash things that way than there were a decade or two ago: especially for a large hotel with many rooms it is simply cheaper to supply disposable paper and/or plastic cups in the rooms that it is to haul the glassware to the washing device, seal it, and haul it back to the rooms. It is a problem, but there is little point in blaming a single hotel -- it is a chain-wide and industry-wide economic and policy problem. Bring your own and/or wash your own. And, by the way, if you are sensitive to such things washing cups or glassware from which you intend to eat or drink with hand or bath soap is often not really optimal because of moisturizing or fragrance ingredients. A 100 ml bottle of dish soap goes a long way. john