Hotels throw out millions of half used bars of soap every week, though instead of letting it all go to the trash, two companies are leading the way in recycling the products and distributing them to people in need.
A recent video posted to ‘Insider’s’ YouTube account, ‘How used hotel soap gets recycled into brand new bars| World wide waste| Insider business’, details the process from the collection of bars all the way through ‘remanufacturing’ and the final products.
‘Clean The World’ is a company based in the United States, originally using vegetable peelers and operating out of a one car garage, founder Shawn Seipler now has a fully industrial facility that cleans soap from up to 1.4 million rooms worldwide.
Clean The World has now donated over 73 million bars of recycled soap to people in countries such as Ghana, The Philippians and Bangladesh where many live without access to basic services like running water.
As many hotel chains around the world, such as the Marriot and IHG groups look to cut out the use of individually wrapped hygiene products, a French company, ‘Unisoap’ provides an alternative option.
Originally using the hand based method to clean bars similar to early stages of Clean The World, Unisoap has now developed machines to help speed the process and deliver on their goals of providing as many bars of soap to the homeless and children of developing countries every year.
