Luxury hotels halt provision of six items for the bathroom

Guests at Shanghai's luxury hotels, which charge as much as 6,000 yuan ($872) a night for a room, are now expected to bring their own toothbrushes, combs and razors, among other items.

As a part of the municipality's first regulation on waste treatment, new rules require all hotels and lodging houses to stop providing items such as toothbrushes, combs, razors, nail polishers, shoe wipers and loofahs in rooms. However, guests can still ask for any one of these items from hotel service centers.

If they violate the rules, hotels or business providers are subject to fines ranging from 500 to 5,000 yuan.