(TAN): Kempinski Hotels, the luxury hotel group, has been for the past six months working with the international recycling programme Clean the World, which donates soap to organisations around the world while protecting the environment from harmful waste, the hotel group said in a statement.
Clean the World’s hospitality programme takes discarded soap bars and bottled amenities and recycles them in order to protect the environment, preserve natural resources, help communities in need and to reduce costs.
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The process starts with a housekeeping service collecting the used soap and amenities and sorting them into Clean the World-provided bins. Once full, the bins are shipped to one of six Clean the World warehouses, where the soap is then run through a special filtration process, whereby all debris is removed and filtered into “grind”. The grind is then mixed with a lab-tested sanitation solution and pressed into new soap bars.
The bars are cut, packed and shipped to one of the many distribution partners around the world, including UNHCR (the UN Refugee Agency), Children International, Global Medic, World Vision and the Red Cross, among others. From there, the bars are then put directly into the hands of vulnerable communities.
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Benedikt Jaschke, chief quality officer and member of the Kempinski management board said, “At Kempinski Hotels, we strive to promote a sustainable future for our industry and assist in helping fight the global spread of preventable diseases. We look forward to continue building a strong partnership with Clean the World as we collectively work to raise awareness and support such an important cause which is even more vital as we face the current global pandemic.”
Shawn Seipler, Founder and CEO of Clean the World, said, “Their (Kempinski Hotels) forward-thinking and corporate sense of responsibility to enhance their sustainability efforts to now include soap recycling speaks volumes about who they are as a brand. They are prioritising putting life-saving soap into the hands of people who need it, while also protecting the environment from harmful waste.”
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Since the beginning of the pandemic, Clean the World has distributed over 3 million bars of soap to homeless shelters, food pantries, refugee camps and emergency healthcare facilities around the world, the statement added.
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