{"id":1128,"date":"2011-04-29T06:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T06:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2011-04-29T06:41:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T06:41:00","slug":"hotels-come-clean-with-discarded-soap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2011\/04\/hotels-come-clean-with-discarded-soap\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotels come clean with discarded soap"},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3269\/3082414306_817b8c75d3.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3269\/3082414306_817b8c75d3.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Starwood bathroom amenities (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dandc\/\">flickr\/dandc<\/a>)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>About one million partly used bars of soap are tossed out daily by U.S. hotels, according to Clean the World Foundation, a non-profit organisation that recycles used soap for distribution to developing nations and homeless shelters.<\/p>\n<p>But recycling organisations such as Clean the World, based in Orlando, and Global Soap Project, based in Atlanta, are starting to get more attention from large hotel companies.<\/p>\n<p>Clean the World said last week that it reached an agreement with Starwood Hotels to recycle soap, shampoo and lotion.<\/p>\n<p>They estimate about 1.6 million pounds of soap may be recycled each year because Starwood has about 176,000 rooms in North America.<\/p>\n<p>Clean the World has had collection deals with about 1,000 individual hotels, including about 100 Marriotts and 80 Hiltons.<\/p>\n<p>Some properties run by Carlson, Wyndham, Hyatt and Joie de Vivre Hotels also donate to the organisation. But the Starwood partnership is its first corporatewide agreement with a large hotel company.\u2028<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starwood bathroom amenities (flickr\/dandc) About one million partly used bars of soap are tossed out daily by U.S. hotels, according to Clean the World Foundation, a non-profit organisation that recycles used soap for distribution to developing nations and homeless shelters. But recycling organisations such as Clean the World, based in Orlando, and Global Soap Project, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}