Recycled soap — a lifesaver with a "green streak'.
Our goal is mighty, but our solution is simple — save the millions of lives lost each year to acute lower-respiratory infection and diarreal illness by distributing recycled soap with the appropriate educational materials to sustain good personal hygiene practices.
Map showing worldwide deliveries as of March 2010.
Where are we getting all of this soap? Each month, hundreds of thousands of hotels and motels across the world discard tons of slightly-used soap and shampoo. These products often end up in already overflowing landfills and can potentially contaminate fragile groundwater systems. Through our Hospitality Recycling Partners Program, Clean the World collects and repurposes these products using environmentally-friendly and hygienically-safe recycling efforts.
With the donations of these discarded soap and shampoo products, Clean the World is a step closer to reaching our goal of preventing the millions of lives lost each year — and we're doing it one bar of soap at a time.