What Happens to Leftover Hotel Soap? How Organizations Are Reducing Waste While Addressing Hygiene Inequality
GREATER VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, AUG 9 – Organizations recycle 5 million hotel soap bars daily to reduce waste and improve hygiene access, benefiting over 500 community groups in British Columbia and Alberta, partners say.
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What happens to leftover hotel soap? How organizations are reducing waste while addressing hygiene inequality | News Channel 3-12
Courtesy of Soap Aid What happens to leftover hotel soap? How organizations are reducing waste while addressing hygiene inequality A little over 10 years ago, while teaching English in northern Cambodia, Samir Lakhani had a soap epiphany. “I saw a village mom bathing her newborn kiddo, but unfortunately, she was scrubbing him with laundry powder, which can be quite harmful to the skin.” It was all the mother had to use. According to UNICEF, 2.3 …

What happens to leftover hotel soap? How organizations are reducing waste while addressing hygiene inequality
Reasons to be Cheerful reports on initiatives like Eco-Soap Bank and Soap Aid, recycling hotel soap to reduce waste and improve hygiene access.
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