One of the best things about visiting a hotel is the complimentary shampoos and bars of soap. Not only are they cute, but they’re also practical for frequent travellers.
Yet, if you don’t take these toiletries with you, many hotels end up just throwing them in the rubbish. To counter this waste, Hilton Hotels has launched an initiative to supply its half-used soaps to people in need.
The hotel chain has teamed up with Clean the World, an organisation that collects used soaps from hotels, melt the used soaps, sanitises them and creates new bars of soap for those that need them.
The chain will collect the used bars of soaps from guest rooms and supply them to Clean the World, which will recycle them into one million new bars of soap by October 15 this year.
This isn’t the first sustainable initiative by the chain, as it already recycles soap, lotion and shampoo bottles to be reused for travel bottles of hygiene products.
In 2018, Hilton Hotels also announced it planned to reduce its carbon emissions by 61 per cent through reducing its plastic use and water consumption.
As well as making recycled soap, Clean the World also makes hygiene kits for homeless shelters around the world.
Hilton is just one of the many hotels to follow the eco-conscious route, with a number of luxury hotels already ‘going green’ to help save the planet.
