Clean the World’s purpose to make the world a better place is brought to life in part via its Global Recycling Program, which consists of recycling gently-used bars of soap and plastic amenity bottles previously discarded by the hospitality industry.  Since it was established in 2009, Clean the World has recycled over 77 million bars of soap, which were exclusively donated to global NGOs, such as Clean the World Foundation, to support worldwide communities vulnerable to hygiene-related illnesses. The organization has also recycled 7.1 million lbs. of plastic amenity bottles, diverted over 24 million lbs. of waste from landfills and helped Clean the World Foundation provide an estimated 17 billion individual handwashes to those in need across the globe.

Clean the World’s soap recycling and manufacturing multi-step process includes rigorous testing by the Biological Consulting Services Laboratory, a fully accredited third-party laboratory, which tests the newly-made bars of soap for any and all contaminants. First, the used bars of soap are ground into pellets and finely refined to eliminate any foreign particles. Then, they are sterilized, refined again, and manufactured into brand-new bars of soap. As for the collected plastic amenity bottles, they are processed into flakes that are used to manufacture new products, hence providing a sustainable circular solution to these single-use plastic products.

Clean the World’s efforts to make the world a better place have been highlighted in the Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe show, and recognized in The Kelly Clarkson Show twice in 2023, as part of their “Good Neighbor of the Year” series.