Company Of The Year: Hilton Canada

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“A company with 100 years of history, Hilton understands the importance of giving back. For example, every shift, when members of the housekeeping staff at a Hilton hotel clean a room, they gather up the used bars of soap to be repurposed for a grander application — a new life helping less fortunate people. “That’s a slam dunk, an amazing way to show Hilton cares,” says Lodhia. He calls this corporate partnership with Clean the World — a social organization that distributes soap that’s been crushed, sanitized and cut into new bars to communities in need — a precise explanation for his loyalty to, and respect for, the hotel company to which he’s hitched his professional fortunes. Hilton’s soap-recycling program, which has helped distribute more than 7.6-million bars of recycled soap over the past decade, keeping two-million lbs. of soap and bottles out of landfills, “has saved lives,” says Lodhia. “We’re very proud to be associated with that.” …

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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