Clean the World: Recycling Hotel Toiletries for a Better Future

Clean the World is a program that recycles hotel toiletries and distributes them to those in need. This article discusses the program's global impact, partnerships with NGOs, and how hotels can participate. It also explores the benefits of recycling hotel toiletries, such as reducing waste and saving money. The article concludes by promoting the program to guests and highlighting its positive impact on the environment and society.

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Around the globe, more than 5 million hotel’s toiletry soaps find their way to garbage every
day. Clean the World (here in after referred as CTW) aiming to turn those rejected or
discarded trash items into a life-changing product (Clean the World, 2018). For that goal,
CTW has distributed forty million soap bars among 115 countries since the year 2009. CTW
has operations department in countries like Haiti, Kenya, and Tanzania, and they are also
having partners like NGOs such as Rise against Hunger and Children International (Lollis,
2012). CTW has partnered with these NGOs to touch and explore more such locations and
needy people.
Additionally, for organizations those want to get closely involved with the scheme, CTW has
a provision of selling hygiene kits that can be donated to charities by those companies.
Besides, the hygiene kits can also be customized to fulfil the necessities of poor children,
women or veterans (Clean the World, 2018).
As we can see that clean the world program is an initiative for sustainability, hence through
recycling used soap and toiletries as well as rest thrown away hygiene products, clean the
world saving millions of lives with the items that would have filled land space. This waste
reduction process with soap as well as bottled amenities recycling is protecting the
environment, preserving natural resources, and reducing budget. This is motivating hotel
guests to stop wasting partially used soaps and plastic bottles rejected. Besides, the hotel
amenities support in recycling them and saving millions of global human lives with the help
of CTW team. The recycling program is undoubtedly having numerous positive sides because
Hotels produce vast volume of solid wastage, which is needed to be disposed carefully.
Therefore, recycling and reducing waste reduces costs of the disposal as well as handling by
the hotel community (DeLollis, 2013).
Furthermore, according to the size of the hotel, they throw away dozens, hundreds and
sometimes thousands of soaps on the daily basis. Clean the World give these discarded soaps,
lotions, shampoos and plastic bottles another life by recycling and distributing those used
hotel soaps, shampoos to deprived families of U.S. housings as well as worldwide. In this
context, some people are also having misconceptions and they spread it like a rumor that
these recycling company Clean the World is also supplying the recycled soaps back to the
hotels, which are participating (Zorpas et al., 2012). These rumors can hinder this excellent

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socio-economic program, as this will create controversies upon a welfare oriented business.
Although this is a threat for the Clean the World community, still the target and goals of
CTW program are so high that these small leg pulling things can not affect the innovative
business plan (Anon, 2017). Besides, CTW team has already planned about expanding the
business from a recycling center situated in a single car garage of downtown Orlando, Florida
to the mainland China and the Middle East (Toropin, 2017).
As we know that Hotels usually pay 65 cents for a single room per month for its room
service, hence a 500-room occupancy hotel would pay 350 dollars in a month. Through
participation in CTW program hotels can counterbalance the service cost per of their rooms
by saving on decreased trash costs, investment banking on the positive PR from recycling
and having tax reductions, while they are earning money. Thus, participation in the CTW
program affects the budgeting of the participated hotels by reducing their waste management
costing and budget (Lollis, 2012).
In the context of promoting this new practice of re-cycling hotel toiletries in front of the
guests, we must promote this thing because of the aim and results of the CTW program. By
telling the guests following few concerned things about hotel budget, world needs and
charity, promotion can be done:
 First of all we must raise the question in front of guests about where do their once-
used soap bars, shampoos go?
 Then we need to assure them about these do not pass to the next coming guest, for
sure.
 Afterwards, by introducing the CTW program and its global targets a better
connection can be made with the guests in order to motivate them for not wasting
toiletries of the hotels they reside in (Springer, 2017).
Moreover, we all know that being a five star property; a hotel’s staff must exchange guests’
soap bars daily, even if it was not touched. Which creates a lot of good-smelling garbage:
Travellers as well as hotels combined to calculate roughly around million soap bars in a day
in the USA and around five million soap bars a day all over the world generated as a garbage.
Besides, participating in a recycling program or motivating guests for fulfilling the targets of
CTW scheme can never result in defaming the hotel brand or prestige (Anon, 2017). Because
of the fact that all initiatives taken by CTW has resulted in a great welfare as it has already
supplied 40 million soap bars to more than 115 countries till present time (Meltzer, 2017).

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Thus, this is an effort in the direction of building positive image of the hotel brands that are
encouraging global welfare through this novel task (Anon, 2010).
In conclusion, after got inspired with this CTW program, Holiday Inn-parent IHG's is also
expanding its special hotel-toiletry recycling program. Besides, by identifying the value of
recycled amenities, as well as encouraged individual IHG properties, IHG is providing
incredible corporate support for the social responsibility. Additionally, it is also for protecting
our planet by reducing waste and garbage disposal in the nature. Clean the world is cleaning
the big hotel communities and our nature for the noble cause of facilitating needy children,
women and other people with those waste garbage things.

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