Derreck Kayongo's Global Soap Project collects partially used hotel soap and reprocesses it to save lives.

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The Global Soap Project recycles uses bars of soap from hotel rooms and distributes them throughout the world.

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For instance Best Western, Carlson, Mandarin Oriental and others have teamed up with Clean the World, an initiative that recycles your partially used soap from the hotel room.

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When conferences and their respective organisers sign up to participate, soap from the entire hotel gets recycled.

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