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How do hotels dispose of semi-used bars of soap after guests use less than 50% of it? Is there a system to recycle it?

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    Most hotel and motel chains are highly unlikely to allow the reuse of soap or toiletries due to the potential spread of illnesses, including: Hepatitis Herpes Ringworm Potentially HIV Norwalk virus Among the many. Unopened containers and unused soap can be easily recycled for reuse. It would likely not be possible for motel/hotel chains or small businesses to indemnify themselves against litigation in case illness was spread due to the donation of used toiletries.

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Anon User

A hotel I recently stayed at claimed that they used the unfinished portions of soap in the cleaning of linen. To what extent it is a truthful claim, or how exactly that might be achieved, wasn't specified. Personally, I tend to take them home with me and finish them off myself, but I certainly appreciate that I'm unlikely to be in the majority of hotel-guests.

Caesar Wong

Our organization http://WastetoCharity.org matches non-profit organizations with streams of Waste Product like this- we do a lot with Soap and Detergents-  We need Truckload quantities to make small dollar value items such as this feasible for our client charities.

Jack Fitzgerald

From what I know of large hotel chains this is uneconomic. Cleaning the rooms is labour intensive and they work on the principle of just throwing everything out and replacing it. You really are expected to steal the soap. It makes absolutely no sense for anyone to mess about with this. You only have to come a cropper with stuff that looks unopened but isnt sterile once to face getting sued. The staff rush in remove everything and replace it. It is as simple as that. If you want to save the world steal the toiletries yourself and give them to a charity.

Joe Geronimo Martinez

Clean the world has a program for hotels to recycle soap and shampoo from hotels. http://www.cleantheworld.org/operations.asp

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