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Cocoon Maldives drops plastic, adopts environment friendly bottles

In a bid to go green Cocoon Maldives have dropped the use of water packaged in plastic bottles and adopted the use of an environment friendly alternative.

A news that ran on Maldives Insider said the initiative by Cocoon Maldives to use environment friendly water bottles will reduce the amount of disposed waste in the resort slip.

The new alternative bottles can be reused multiple times while the resort manufactures clean drinking water through a desalination process.

Designed by the renowned Italian firm, Lago, Cocoon Maldives opened for service in 2016 at Lhaviyani atoll Ookolhu Finolhu.

The 6.9 hectare slip of an island boasts 151 villas all intricately designed to great appeal lies 30 minutes by a seaplane trip away from the country's capital - Male'.

Cocoon Maldives is the latest in the plethora of local resort outlets to enter a go-green initiative by dropping the use of plastic bottles.