The surprising afterlife of used hotel soap [View all]

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And now, home kits available for collecting and donating your own unwanted tailings !

But these tiny bars come with a big problem.

While some of us smuggle home every bar we can get our hands on (a totally acceptable move, according to hoteliers), most guests leave behind sizable, half-used hunks of soap.

At scale, this is a big deal:

Every year, it has been estimated that the hospitality industry ~440B pounds of solid waste — much of it soap and bottled amenities. That’s the equivalent weight of 2m blue whales.

What happens to all that leftover soap?

Fourteen years ago, one man asked that very question. And the answer led him down a path that has since saved tens of thousands of lives all over the world.

https://thehustle.co/the-surprising-afterlife-of-used-hotel-soap/