Soap recycling for hotels and hygiene education for communities in need
Soap recycling for hotels and hygiene education for communities in need
(CNN) — Next time you check out of a hotel, spare a thought for the barely touched bar of soap left behind in your room. Around the world, five million hotel soaps make their way to landfills every single day. But Clean the World aims turn those discarded slabs into a life-changing commodity.With recycling centers in the United States and Hong Kong, the …
Text by Jaana Harris (Bachelor in Nutrition & Food, Masters in Pharmacy) How Poor Hygiene Can Affect our Health Practicing good hygiene is pivotal when it comes to food preparation. It ensures that the food being eaten is safe for consumption. Poor hygiene when handling, or eating food can lead to the harmful spread of germs, which can cause food-born …
“Hygiene related illnesses claim the lives of almost 6,000 kids under the age of five every day; that’s more than malaria, AIDS and tuberculosis combined. Interestingly, the way to prevent those deaths is not a vaccine, it’s not even clean water, but just a bar of soap.” This is the way the global hygiene revolution begins — not with a …
Written by Alora Stickley, Summer Intern 2018. Hong Kong is currently in its summer flu season and leading hotels in some major Asian cities are doing their part to combat illness by supporting the efforts of Clean the World Asia. Their generous donations of used soap are helping to fight the flu virus at its root…our own hands! So, if …