Hilton’s UK Hotels To Send Recycled Soap Bars To Communities In Need

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“According to the NGO, five million partially-used soap bars are thrown away in hotels around the world every day.

From 2020, soap bars from Hilton’s UK hotels (plus 17 in continental Europe) will be sent to Clean the World’s recycling facility in Amsterdam.

They will be cleaned and repurposed into 700,000 new soap bars each year, which will be sent to communities in need.

Hilton said these would especially be in countries with a high death rate due to pneumonia and cholera.” …

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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