How Used Hilton Hotel Soaps Get Recycled

Clean the World is a nonprofit organization that recycles used soaps, lotions, and other toiletries from hotels. Its partners include Hilton, Marriott, and Walt Disney World Resorts, among others. Clean the World has donated over 50 million bars of recycled soap to people in need in 127 countries since its founding in 2009. The organization has had to adapt as more hotel chains move away from single-use toiletries in favor of bulk offerings.

Hilton’s partnership with Clean the Word began in 2009, not 2019. The data presented in the video reflects the first seven months of the Clean the World Challenge — a promise to donate 1 million bars of soap by October 15, 2019 (Global Handwashing Day). Insider regrets the error.

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How Used Hilton Hotel Soaps Get Recycled

[sturtsi]

I googled the sterilization process of soap so here it goes:
1. The soap is rinsed from any dirt/hair
2. It is put to furnace with temperature of 120 celsius or 250 fahrenheit, it is meant to kill bacteria and fungi
3. It goes through UV (ultraviolet) light to kill more microbial bacteria

You can find more information of the stages by googling if you get really interested

Edit: clean the world has left comment surrounding the process too, so you should read that too if you're interested more in detail of their method. My comment is more of a general way of doing it.

[ouaispasmal]

how is it recycled i thought everyone took one as a souvenir

[nopushbutton]

"How is the soap sterilized?"
*about a minute later*
"It goes through a sterilization process..."

oh. thanks.

[Kempeth]

Q: "How do you clean the thing that does the cleaning?"
A: "First it is cleaned and then sterilized."

WOW! Top grade reporting!

[steverogers]

“How do you clean the thing that does the cleaning?”

I felt that...

[down]

taking the soap home and using it yourself is much better for the environment though, because it doesn't have to be desanitized and you're buying fewer soap products as a result.

[Zane]

Me: *leaves slightly used soap in hotel room*

“I’m doing my part”

[seniorrider]

I have been "recycling" soap bits for years. In the Navy we used to keep the small bits left behind and smash them together and use them. Usually the soap had different colors and we called it "rainbow soap". I always keep my small bits and make new bars instead of throwing them away. Annoys the heck out of my wife. Just to be more clear, these "soap bits" would be about the size of a 1/4 bar and the size that gets hard to hold on to. Now days I save them for years in a small plastic bucket, then add water and heat to melt and pour "new" soap bars. The soap bits in the Navy were same 1/4 size bars that some guys just could not be bothered with and would leave in the soap dish. I never had any skin ailment while on active duty. I also retired in 1985 and have had no skin ailments since retiring. I always looked at soap as clean if you washed the small bar well before saving it. Sounds like some readers are put off by this practice. Wonder how well they would have fared when "soap" was made at home! Look up colonial soap making! Lye water made by pouring water over old ashes, added to animal fats left over from cooking. UMMH, I think I prefer my mashing small 1/4 bars together to completely use the soap I buy at the store.

[isaiah]

Tech Insider: "Here's how it works."


Also Tech Insider: Show what is done and skips the "how" part.

[fr]

God Bless the guy that helped make all this happen!

[jojomakes]

It’s entirely too depressing to think that they’re people in this world who have to rely on charity organizations to send them basic hygiene products. Meanwhile, all we have to do is go online or walk into a store. Bars of soap, body wash, shower gel, bath bombs, shampoo, conditioner, multiple types of everything, multiple colors, and multiple scents. Even products customized for us based on our skin or hair needs. Things like this really humble me and make me grateful for what I have. I would love to donate some new soap to these people.

[MoneySavingVideos]

Better to simply throw the dry soap bar into your suitcase and use it when you get home. This eliminates transportation and recycling costs.

[unicornus]

Also friends: "It's soap. It's self cleaning."

[Sophie-zrcs]

Tech Insider: “Don’t be like Ross, and leave the toiletries behind next time you go to a hotel”
My entire family: *sweats in the bathroom of stolen toiletries*

[brandonroberts]

Taking the soap that you only used once or twice and using it at home is way way more eco friendly than the entire logistical process of recycling them

[tigergreg]

Seeing a child at the end, holding up soap with such a big smile, really makes you think about your own life.

[superiorduck]

"How does Hilton recycle their soap?"

"First, they recycle it..."

[geraldrhey]

In Ross' defense, he never knew life was gonna be this way

[HaploPrime]

This video lacks substance. Doesn't really explained how it gets recycled. Just saying it gets washed and sterilized isn't really explaining anything. How do you sterilize soap?

[stupidpin]

I gotta say, having worked front desk for over 15 years, I quite frankly had no idea what housekeeping did with the soaps. Though while I was staying in a hotel this past weekend, the thought had crossed my mind about what a waste it was that this soap is getting used for two days and then, presumably, tossed, so kudos to Shawn Siepler for coming up with a great way to take care of that problem and helping out those who otherwise wouldn't have access to these products.