One of the largest issues in modern cultures is wastefulness. In many places of the Earth, food, water, and even electricity are often - and thoughtlessly - wasted.
It’s such an issue that we don’t even understand the gravity of our actions. Hotel soap, for instance, frequently gets thrown out whether it’s used or not, despite the fact that many people die every day because they don’t have access to such hygienic necessities.
One forward-thinking man found out that this was a problem, and decided that it was his job to do something to solve it. What he did next will surprise you!
Lots of bars of the soap left for hotel patrons end up in the rubbish. Indeed, replacing the soap every day—even when it hasn’t been used at all—is a requirement for a hotel to receive a five diamond rating.
Almost one million bars of soap are thrown out in the United States every day, and it’s predicted that approximately five million bars are thrown out on a daily basis worldwide.
Luckily, some hotels have decided to stop wasting. Now they’re saving lives! Because of Clean the World, a company located in Orlando, Florida, used hotel soap is collected, melted, and transformed into new soap to offer to countries in need.
It was an idea of Clean the World founder and CEO Shawn Seipler. He had been traveling for almost five months out of the year when he worked for a tech company. One night, he became curious when staring at a bar of soap. He asked the front desk what happened with the unused soap, and learned that it gets thrown out.
Shawn researched the issue further and discovered that it was a nationwide problem. He was shocked by the wastefulness. “That is when I learned about rebatching,” stated Shawn in an interview. Rebatching is the name given to the process by which old soap is melted down and reformed into brand new bars.
Shawn thought that he could use rebatching in a positive way after discovering the extent to which hygiene is an issue in impoverished countries. Countless of kids die from preventable ailments, such as diarrhea and pneumonia, every day. Access to hygienic products could prevent this.
Now, the hotels that collaborate with Clean the World pay them 50 cents per bedroom per month to recycle their soap. CTW provides everything that the hotel staff requires, including bins, training, and delivery. The staff of the hotel places the unused soap in the bins, and a CTW truck delivers it to one of their processing plants.
'Clean the World' has many plants around the world, including Las Vegas, Orlando, and Hong Kong. Orlando houses their first and biggest spot. At the time that the soap is rebatched, it is sent in boxes to non-governmental organizations.
Top hotels further support CTW in recycling shampoo, body wash, and conditioner. After that, one of the 20,000 worldwide volunteers checks to guarantee that these bottles are at least 3/4 full; empty ones are thrown out.
Since it was established in 2009, Clean the World is credited with helping to reduce the deaths of infants under the age of five around the globe. In 2016 only, it made 7 million bars of soap and dispatched 400,000 hygiene kits.
Despite CTW’s hard work, a quarter of the 16,000 losses of children under the age of five each year are connected to pneumonia and diarrhea.
Shawn stated: “That’s still about one every 15 seconds, so we still have a lot of work to do.”
Fortunately, CTW isn’t the only one: 5,000 hotels collaborate with it in the United States alone, and other firms have pitched in, too. United Airlines, for example, donates unused items from its first aid kits and also sleep masks and ear plugs to give to people in noisy, bright shelters.
Watch this amazing video to discover more about Clean the World, its goal, and the reason why this company’s work is so significant. It’s hard not to get sentimental once you listen to Shawn narrating his story in his own words…
We all hope that his actions will become famous enough so that every hotel on Earth collaborates with Clean the World. Their actions shouldn't be ignored! Please visit CTW’s website for extra information and to donate.
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