FAQ

What is Clean the World?

  • Clean the World Foundation, Inc. is committed to reducing the waste created by discarded soap and shampoo products and preventing the millions of deaths caused by hygiene-related illnesses around the world.
  • Clean the World was founded in February 2009 by Shawn Seipler and Paul Till and is based in Orlando, FL.
  • A not for profit, 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable organization

How does Clean the World accomplish its mission?

  • By collecting, sorting, and sanitizing discarded soap, shampoo, conditioner, and lotion products donated from participating hospitality partners
  • By collecting donated hygiene products from manufacturers
  • Clean the World recycles product donations at its Recycling Operations Center (ROCS).
  • The recycled products are delivered to local homeless shelters and impoverished countries worldwide.

How does soap save lives?

  • Hand washing with soap significantly reduces the impact of two fatal diseases: acute respiratory infection and diarrheal disease.
  • Over 5 million lives are lost every year from these diseases.
  • The majority of those dying are children less than 5 years old.

How much waste are you preventing?

  • Since inception, Clean the World has eliminated over 340 tons of waste.
  • This equals 5 million soap bars and 35.5 tons of shampoo and conditioner – all put back into human use.

How do you recycle soap?

  • Clean the World provides hospitality partners with bins for housekeeping staff to deposit collected soap and shampoo bottles.
  • Bins are picked up weekly by Clean the World staff and transported to the Recycling Operations Center.
  • Soap is recycled using two methods: re-batching and sanitization

What is re-batching?

  • Cook soap to remove all impurities
  • Reform soap into 2-ounce bars
  •  Applied about 10% of the time to moderately to heavily used bars

What is sanitization?

  • Soak soap in a sterilization solution
  • Treat soap with a steam/pressure combination
  • Test soap’s pH level
  • Cool  for packaging
  •  Proprietary, patent-pending process
  • Applied 90% of the time to slightly used bars

Is the soap safe?

  • Tested by TriTech Laboratories,  a Florida state-certified testing facility
  • Twice tested:  June 26, 2009 and April 9, 2010
  •  TriTech provided infected soap to run through the standard Clean the World recycling process
  • Soap tested for sanitization levels
  • Result: complete elimination of all the pathogens TriTech used: Listeria monocytogenes, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aerogenes, Salmonella typhymurium, and Staphylococcus aureus.

Where does Clean the World operate?

  • 40 states
  • Recycling Centers in Orlando, Las Vegas, Toronto, and Vancouver
  • Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, and Washington D.C. facilities opening in 2010

Who are your hospitality partners?

  • 260  hospitality partners, including Walt Disney World Resorts,Westgate Resorts, Intercontinental, Hilton, Hyatt, Starwood, Harrah’s, and other major brands
  • Over 100,000 hotel rooms recycled daily
  • For more info on our hospitality partners click here

How do you distribute the soap and shampoo?

  • Clean the World built an international distribution network
  • Direct distribution established in Haiti
  • Strategic partnerships with Non-governmental Organizations (World Vision, Compassion Alliance, and Floating Doctors)
  • Clean the World directly distributes to domestic homeless shelters and missions

Who does the recycling work?

  • 18 full-time employees
  • Volunteers
  • Team-building groups

How can I get involved in your cause?

  • Click here to find out how to volunteer!
  • Financial donations are welcome and appreciated
  • Encourage hotel management to participate in the Clean the World program
  • Support our corporate partners

What can I do with soap that I would normally throw away?

  • Host a soap drive
  • Send or drop off the soap: 8026 Sunport Drive, Suite 306, Orlando, FL 32809

 

 

 

 



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