Clean the World Inc. now has a way to recycle all those partially used hotel toiletries. They’re able to get 100% use out of all of those tiny bottles, and there’s no giant tub with upsidedown bottles dripping every last drop of shampoo into it.
Recycle Hotel Soaps
Over 100 hotels have joined their program including the 10 location chain based in Colorado – Rock Resorts International - who are already known for teir eco friendliness. Thousands of bars of recycled soap are being distributed to homeless shelters in the U.S. and Haiti, one of the poorest countries in the world.
So are these poor people getting partially used bars of soap? According to Treehugger “Nope, actually Clean the World takes all used soap and sterilizes it through a steaming process and then repackages the soap. Clean the World employs men from the Central Care Mission in Orlando, FL as part of a program to help get homeless men off the street and into full-time jobs.” They go on to say “Each year over 1 million bars of soap are thrown away in landfills before they have been used up. At the same time, 3.5 million children around the world die from acute respiratory and diarrheal disease, most of which could be prevented with access to hand soap and education programs on the importance of hand washing.”
If you stay at hotels participating in the program simply drop your unused soap and shampoo in the recycle containers, or send by mail anyunused or leftover soap/shampoo/conditioner to: Central Care Mission, 4027 Lennox Blvd. Orlando, FL 32811. Learn more about Clean the World and to get your local hotel involved you’ll find them online at Clean the World.
