Unlimited access to tiny individually-wrapped soaps is one of the many perks of a hotel stay. But what happens to soaps that aren\u2019t used (or pilfered) during your visit? The answer may surprise you.<\/p>\n
More than two million partially used bars of soap are discarded at North American hotels each day, according to the\u00a0Global Soap Project<\/a>. Even if hotel soaps haven\u2019t been used, quality control standards usually prohibit cleaning staff from reusing the same soaps for multiple guests \u2013 especially if the paper wrapping is wet or opened. So, unused and partially used soaps are often destined for the landfill.<\/p>\n But\u00a0Hilton Worldwide<\/a>\u00a0is planning to change all that at its 3,750 hotels by partnering with the Global Soap Project to recycle old soaps for a cause, the company announced on Tuesday. The Atlanta-based nonprofit will collect partially used soaps from Hilton and its subsidiaries, sanitize them and reprocess them into new bars \u2013 which are then distributed in developing countries.<\/p>\n Read the complete article at Earth911.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Unlimited access to tiny individually-wrapped soaps is one of the many perks of a hotel stay. But what happens to soaps that aren\u2019t used (or pilfered) during your visit? The answer may surprise you. More than two million partially used bars of soap are discarded at North American hotels each day, according to the\u00a0Global Soap … Continue reading Hotel Soap Recycling Benefits Children in Need<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4351,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions\/4351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}