Daily Archives: August 15, 2013

Recycling soap to save lives: 2 metric tons of used soap collected in Sands China

I wonder what they do with that bar of soap from the hotel room?” This simple question has led to an initiative of recycling soap to save lives. Thousands of hotels worldwide discard over three million bars of soap into landfills and incinerators every single day. Meanwhile, thousands of children around the world die from hygiene-related illnesses that can be prevented by simply washing with a bar of soap.
“How do we put the soap into the hands of those who need it the most?” asked Shailesh Adhav, Managing Director of Clean the World-Asia, at a promotional event held in the back of house area at Holiday Inn Macao Cotai Central yesterday. “Many have thought about what happens to the bar of soap, but they don’t do anything, because it is like boiling the ocean. It’s an amazing task to try to accomplish, and one person alone can’t do it. It’s the strength of taking very simple actions together and saying, ‘how can we find the right partners?’”

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