Clean the World – Then and Now

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You know, it wasn’t too long ago that people wondered if recycling soap was really worth the effort. We’ll let you be the judge:

  • In less than two years, Clean the World has collected, recycled and distributed more than 7 million soap bars in the United States, Haiti and more than 40 other countries. [Find list of countries served by Clean the World on our website: http://localhost:8888/cleantheworld/saving-lives.asp]
  • Since the Jan. 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Clean the World has distributed 1.5 million bars of soap to that island, including 300,000 since the cholera outbreak in late October.
  • Clean the World services more than 700 hotel properties in 48 states and 9 provinces in Canada.
Flashback: Clean the World offers “Hope by the Handful” to Haiti (CBS Evening News, Jan. 2010)

Fast-forward: Shawn Seipler becomes ‘The Pied Piper of Soap’ (CBS Evening News, Oct. 2010)
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Clean the World
Clean the World is a global leader in sustainability and social impact solutions for hospitality, helping hotels transform discarded guest-room amenities into measurable good.

Through the Global Hospitality Recycling Program, Clean the World works with over 8,600 hospitality partners worldwide to divert used soap bars and plastic amenity bottles from landfills, recycling soap into new, hygienic bars and processing plastics for reuse in new products. Since 2009, Clean the World has diverted more than 31 million pounds of waste from landfills and distributed over 100 million bars of recycled soap to communities vulnerable to hygiene-related illness.

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