Clean The World was founded by social entrepreneur, Mr. Shawn Seipler. They are on a mission to reduce the millions of deaths worldwide caused by lack of hygiene. How--you ask? Clean The World recycles partially used soap left behind from hotel guests and distributes it to those in need. Clean The World collects, melts, reforms, and packages partially used soap. Gross? Nope! This nonprofit has distributed nearly 70 million bars ofsoap in more than 120 countries since 2009. Countless young lives have been saved by Clean The World soap. Fact: ~9,000 children under 5 years old die every day from pneumonia or diarrhea; two diseases that could stop being fatal if those children had access to a bar of soap and learned how to wash their hands. Sounds simple, right?

How many times do you use soap inside your hotel bathroom? Once? Twice maybe? It's a huge waste, right? As a road warrior, Shawn spent 150 nights at hotels on business. One night, he was staring at the soap in his hotel shower and wondered what was done with the leftover soap. This was the beginning of Clean The World.

Shawn developed a plan for ~8,000 hotels to pay Clean The World to take away their used soap. He recycled this soap and donated it to young millions of young kids in need of hygiene. It turns out, that repurposing soap is saving lives. You will giggle and cry with this story of saving lives in the world of recycling a simple bar of soap. Join me for this inspiring story; it's the best twenty minutes you'll spend today. Transcript Reading Time: 5 minutes

In This Episode:

• Once the soap is repurposed and ready for its second life, Clean the World works with humanitarian partners like UNICEF, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, World Vision, and Children International to determine where it’s most needed around the world.
• Today, Clean the World partners with more than 8k hotels — roughly 1.4m rooms in total — around the world.
• Shawn came up with an annuity model where hotels pay a small fee to have Clean The World pick up and remove the used soap.
• Every donated bin is weighed so Clean the World can give hotels detailed impact reports. Since 2009, Clean The World has:
  • Collected 13m pounds of discarded soap from hotels
  • Distributed 68m bars of reprocessed soap to 127 countries
  • Diverted 23m pounds of plastic and soap waste from landfill

Cool Links to Check Out:

• https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/17/travel/clean-the-world-hotel-soap.html
• https://cleantheworld.org/
• https://thehustle.co/the-surprising-afterlife-of-used-hotel-soap/
• https://aldianews.com/en/leadership/entrepreneurs/recycling-hotel-soap-bars

Links:
@cleantheworld
@clean_the_world

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