Saving Lives...with Used Soap
How many times have you stayed in a hotel and actually used the entire bar of soap or emptied the shampoo bottle? Are you having trouble counting the number of times on one hand? If your hotel doesn’t recycle or donate soap and shampoo, what you don’t use in your hotel room ends up in a landfill. Hotels in the Destination Hotels & Resorts collection are joining the Clean the World program, an organization that recycles used soap and shampoo from hotels and donates the re-batched soap to impoverished countries and communities who need it most. Hamilton Park Hotel & Conference Center, Carolina Inn, InterContinental Tampa and Embassy Suites at the Chevy Chase Pavilion are the first hotels in our collection to join this one-of-a-kind program.
Clean the World not only helps save lives in the countries it donates soap to, it diverts waste from our landfills and its recycling operations are run by Central Care Mission, a long-term recovery home for men in Orlando, Florida. Central Care Mission helps keep men off the streets and provides them with life management skills while dealing with an addiction. Work is an important part of the recovery for these men and running sterilization equipment and packaging recycled soap bars provides a necessary win-win partnership for both Clean the World and the Central Care Mission. Divert from landfills, save lives and provide work to those in need…sustainability at its finest.
