“Verstraete also outlined some of the company’s other commitments, “Our commitment to send zero soap to landfill is something we feel very proud about because we’ve invested millions of dollars in upscaling soap recycling solutions for the industry. Why send something to landfill that can actually save lives? So we have nearly 2000 hotels recycling soap, most of them with Clean the World, and we’ve distributed nearly 7 million bars around the world. We are committing as a company to ban plastic straws across all managed hotels so that’s approximately 35 million straws a year for our company, and then we’re going to take away plastic bottles of water from meetings and events across Asia Pacific and Europe, Middle East and Africa, so again tens of millions of plastic bottles that we’re removing from our operations.” …