https://thehustle.co/the-surprising-afterlife-of-used-hotel-soap/
"While some of us smuggle home every bar we can get our hands on (a totally
acceptable move, according to hoteliers), most guests leave behind sizable,
half-used hunks of soap.
At scale, this is a big deal:
* There are ~5m hotel rooms in the US alone.
* Pre-pandemic, the average occupancy rate was ~66%.
* That means that, in normal times, hotels go through ~3.3m bars of soap every
day.
Every year, it has been estimated that the hospitality industry generates ~440B
pounds of solid waste — much of it soap and bottled amenities. That’s the
equivalent weight of 2m blue whales.
What happens to all that leftover soap?
Fourteen years ago, one man asked that very question. And the answer led him
down a path that has since saved tens of thousands of lives all over the
world."
Via Esther Schindler.
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
