Used soap from Hilton Hotels is getting a second life.
I’m honestly really glad to hear this. I always figured they just threw it away and it was such a massive waste.
Hey I actually helped create this program. And as info the soap is given to third party companies, plastic is recycled (if bottled soap / shampoo), then it is hygienically processed and donated to a variety of causes. Let me know if you have any questions, but it’s not (for once) horrible capitalism something or reused in the hotels.
But now what can I spend all this anger on?
Honestly, as long as it’s been shown to be sanitary, I’m so for recycling. Imagine throwing out all that barely used soap? What a waste.
Maybe it’s just the crappy hotels I’ve used, but the soaps are always so small, I need two whole bars to take a shower. I know I’m not in the best of shape, but I ain’t that huge.
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Isn’t soap supposed to kill all that stuff? Wouldn’t germs die when in contact with it for too long?
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Here is video about it, if you want to see the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qJV34pcOaw
Yummy, glad to be using some rando’s used soap. But on a more serious note as long as it’s being done in a way that is sanitary and doesn’t risk spreading any diseases then this is much better than producing all that waste.
It’s distributed to poor countries interested in free soap. They don’t reuse it within the hotel, and people that receive it know it’s recycled.
I question if this is actually an efficient way of donating soap, it’s quite an intensive process I wouldn’t be surprised if this was one of those feel-good things that actual costs more than just making new soap.
Yeah, you could be right that it is just for the feel good press to make them look good. Look at clothes donations. It tanks local textile industries and they’re sometimes stuck with piles upon piles of used clothes that don’t even look nice. Maybe there’s something similar happening here.
