Used soap from Hilton Hotels is getting a second life.

  • lagomorphlecture@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yummy, glad to be using some rando’s used soap. But on a more serious note as long as it’s being done in a way that is sanitary and doesn’t risk spreading any diseases then this is much better than producing all that waste.

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      1 year ago

      It’s distributed to poor countries interested in free soap. They don’t reuse it within the hotel, and people that receive it know it’s recycled.

      I question if this is actually an efficient way of donating soap, it’s quite an intensive process I wouldn’t be surprised if this was one of those feel-good things that actual costs more than just making new soap.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, you could be right that it is just for the feel good press to make them look good. Look at clothes donations. It tanks local textile industries and they’re sometimes stuck with piles upon piles of used clothes that don’t even look nice. Maybe there’s something similar happening here.

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        1 year ago

        One of the people involved in getting this program going has commented on this thread. You should ask them about that. I’d be curious to know the answer.